CONSERVATION IN LABRADOR 



experiments in garden-growing and in the use 

 of fish-refuse and seaweed as fertilizers. He 

 says: "My garden in Isthmus Bay, which, the 

 reader would observe, produced excellent crops 

 the first year, by being manured with seaweed 

 and oflf als of fish ; and also by mixing a greater 

 portion of the barren sand that lay under- 

 neath, among the peat soil on the surface, it 

 has since, I have been informed, brought every- 

 thing to a degree of perfection, which had never 

 been seen in that part of the world, in any 

 former year." ^ Isthmus Bay is on the east- 

 ern coast near the entrance of Sandwich Bay, 

 where the climate is much more severe than 

 in the Canadian Labrador. 



The natural luxuriant growth of strand 

 wheat along the sandy shores shows what can 

 be done if proper plants are chosen. In Ice- 

 land the grain of the strand wheat is used in 

 making bread. I cannot insist too strenuously 

 on the importance of using some other cereal 

 food than the universal finely bolted white 

 flour. Dr. John Mason Little, Jr.,'* has shown 



1 Captain Cartwright and his Labrador Journal (1909), p. 



360- 



2 Journal of Ihe American Medical Association (1912), vol. 

 58, p. 2029. 



281 



