Canadian Forestry Journal, October, 1917 



1331 



dian Fire Ranger, Dominion Forest 

 Service, Northern Manitoba: 



"I wonder how Norway House for- 

 ests are now. I never see water — 

 it's all plains and lovely trees all 

 around. And lots of steam engines. 

 And we are building dug-outs. I 

 guess I'll stay in dug-outs after I 

 get back. And we are having a good 

 time under the ground. I was wound- 

 ed on the back with the shrapnel — 

 just a slight one and only had to 

 stay in the hospital for four days, 

 but it doesn't hurt me at all. 



"There's a lot of French girls here 

 but I don't know what they are say- 

 ing, but they keep on talking." 



No Kickers at The Front 



Major W. A. Lyndon, Forest Rang- 

 er on the Crowsnest Forest Reserve, 

 Alberta: 



"I spent five weeks in the Vimy 

 Ridge district in front of Lens where 

 we had some very hot work. So far 

 I have been very lucky not yet re- 

 ceiving a wound but have had the 

 unpleasantness of facing the gas. 

 Our boys at the front are in great 

 spirits always ready for a raid on the 

 Bosch. They are always successful. 

 If the young men could see the jolly 

 spirits our boys at the front are in 

 they would not need conscription in 

 Canada. The kickers are the ones 

 that stay at the base and in England 

 and are afraid to face the music. 

 Those are the ones that do the kick- 

 mg. 



Campaigning in Egypt 



Captain E. W. Conant, Forest 

 Ranger, Nicola Forest Reserve, Brit- 

 ish Columbia, (writing from Egypt: 



"The country is, or rather was in 

 April, a rolling, open country covered 

 with short grasses, vetches and clov- 

 ers, and had then on it a good many 

 herds of cattle and sheep. Patched 

 into this grass, looking rather like 

 a gigantic chessboard, were large 

 and small squares of cultivation, 

 without any sort of protection from 

 the stock. The cultivation consists 

 principally of barley of a very fine 

 malting quality and an excellent 

 bearded wheat. The agricultural in- 



struments are primitive but the 

 ploughing and seeding is well done, 

 the first quite straight, though shal- 

 low, the second looks as if done by a 

 drill. Water is collected in the rainy 

 season in deep cisterns and wells. 

 It is a perfect sub-irrigation country 

 from February to end of May, after 

 which everything dries up and the 

 Bedouins retire to the Jordan hills 

 with their flocks. It offers trem- 

 endous opportunities to the white 

 farmer as an enormous amount of 

 water runs to waste in the spring 

 down the large wadis which could 

 easily be stored for summer use, and 

 I should think deep artesian borings 

 would be successful. As you can 

 imagine, this kind of country after 

 so many months of the desert simply 

 sends one's horses mad. It was 

 really comical to see them on the 

 grass again. It was naturally a 

 wonderful country from our point 

 of view, ideal to us as a country for 

 rapidity of manoeuvre, and we did 

 some tall distances. 



"Well, I wish the war would 

 hurry up and finish. I'm tired 

 of the sun and glare and home- 

 sick for the dark green depths 

 of a trail right up in the jack 

 pine, and a bit of a lake with 

 trout in it." 



A NEW USE FOR WOOD 



The very latest wrinkle at soda 

 fountains is the use of wooden dishes 

 for sei'ving ice cream and sundaes, 

 replacing the cheap looking and 

 flimsy paper cups that came into use 

 a few years ago in response to the 

 demand for a sanitary individual 

 service. These wooden dishes are 

 pressed out of very thin sheets of 

 clear maple, shaped to slip readily 

 into silver holders. They are taste- 

 less, odorless and hygienic. The 

 clean appearance of the cups seems 

 to add an appetizing flavor to the 

 frozen dehcacy contained therein, 

 and they are making a hit with the 

 patrons of high grade soda dispen- 

 saries. 



