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6 ft. ihal would give 1,210 trees to the acre. In Ceylon it 

 was estimated that about 14 lb. of clippings could be 

 looked for from each tree, which should give 170 lb. of 

 commercial camphor per acre, say i to i^ per cent, of pure 

 camphor, besides the oil obtained as well. In Formosa a 

 yield of 120 lb. per acre is spoken of, wiiilst in America a 

 yield of up to 200 lb. is claimed at times. 



In Florida, it seems that the plantations of the Satsuma 

 Company, -which is closely affiliated with the Celluloid 

 Company, forms a portion of an earnest attempt which is 

 being made to render the United States less dependent on 

 the Formosa output which has to feed so many markets. 

 Another camphor-producing concern is controlled, if not 

 actually owned (in the United States), by the Du Pont 

 interests, and is, or was, known as the Arlington Co. If 

 America finds it worth while to plant camphor, and we 

 (juite agree that it is so, it must surely also be to the 

 advantage of this country to extend the number of centres 

 carrying on camphor-growing experiments, as well as to 

 increase the areas where the drug or gum has already been 

 planted on a commercial basis. It must no longer be 

 urged by the people of this Empire in future as it has been 

 in the past : Why should we bother ? We can get all the 

 camphor we want Irom P'ormosa. We can buy all the 

 sugar we need from Cuba, Java, &c. ; the latter centre will 

 also send us bark or ([uinine at a ridiculously low cost, and 

 so on. All this must be altered once and for all time, 

 because the most incorrigible dreamer, pacifist or slacker 

 must have been able to realize by now, whether he is 

 willing to acknowledge the fact or not, that whatever 

 supplies this country and the Empire at large may be able 

 to obtain in normal times are of no account, and need not 

 be considered when it comes to times of war, and the man 

 who really believes that there will be no more war, and 

 hence no need to prepare for it, had better go and live in 

 Berlin until he has learnt otherwise. Those less doubtful 

 should read William Archer's " Gems (?) of German 

 Thought," where their pastors show by their views how 

 righteous it is for Germany to fight all nations now at war 

 with them. " To attack London," says Karl Konig, in his 

 " Six War Sermons," "is to attack a den of murderers," 

 This is quite ecjual to Bernhardi, when he urged that " the 

 eflforts directed towards the abolition of war must not only 

 be termed foolish, but absolutely immoral and unworthy of 

 the human race." 



In face of such statements, with what a true ring to the 



