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Canadian Forestry Journal, October, ipi6 



Competition Keen. 



Paper making is a highly specialized 

 industry, specialized in that every 

 maker keeps to certain lines, and de- 

 velops his plant to produce out of the 

 material at hand certain quantities at 

 the cheapest rate. He is unable to 

 compete if he tries to produce too many 

 kinds at his mill. This is particularly 

 noticeable in the enormous develop- 

 ment in the last twenty years of the 

 news mills, where every detail of the 

 huge modern plants is arranged for 

 making one quality of paper only. In 

 such a mill there would be, perhaps, 

 five or six machines, each turning out 

 every minute of the twenty-four hours 

 of the day 750 feet of paper in a width 

 on each machine of 150 to 180 inches. 



From forest to breakfast table, the 

 production of the newspaper is a ro- 

 mance of the highest order. Yet these 

 same specialist mills would be all at 

 sea if they were expected to produce a 

 sheet of, say, ledger or tissue paper. 

 The result of such an attempt, even if 

 the managers knew the requirements 

 of the market, would be to turn the 

 whole mill in about five minutes into 

 a huge waste paper basket. 



Experiments Unavailing. 



If, as was remarked above, the pa- 

 per makers endeavor to produce out of 

 the material nearest at hand, what ma- 

 terial is there in Egypt to induce the 

 mianufacture of this necessary article 

 in the country? Cannot such mate- 

 rial as rice, straw, sugar cane stalks, 

 banana leaves, etc., be used? 



Experts have, for many years, ex- 

 perimented with all classes of plants 



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in order to test their value as a paper 

 making material, and much valuable 

 information has been gathered from 

 these experiments. But after a cer- 

 tain stage of experiment has been 

 reached the same impasse is always ar- 

 rived at. The fibre of a plant may, 

 under treatment, yield a beautiful cel- 

 lulose pulp desirable in every way, but 

 further investigations prove that the 

 amount procurable is too small and un- 

 certain, and the difficulties of collection 

 and transport prevent the develop- 



The Tragedy of the 

 Empty Bottle 



It is a real tragedy to find the bottle empty when you need Bovril. 

 You may want Bovril quickly in illness. You may need it badly for the 

 meal you are cooking — for your soup or your stew. So keep Bovril at 

 hand. 



