IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



that, as the exclusive use of polished rice in 

 Japan is productive of beri-beri, so the same 

 disease is caused in Labrador by the use of 

 white flour. I was interested to find in my trip 

 up the Natashquan River in 191 2 that the 

 men were much pleased with my supplies of 

 Indian meal and brown rice. They had never 

 tasted them before, and, to my surprise, pre- 

 ferred them to the white flour, which Wcis al- 

 most untouched. 



Many miles farther north in Labrador, at 

 the North-West River Post of the Hudson's 

 Bay Company, the enterprising Donald Alex- 

 ander Smith, in the fifties and sixties of the 

 last century, made a model farm on an ex- 

 tensive scale. The trappers and fishermen, 

 who at first scoffed, were later filled with as- 

 tonishment and admiration. Seed, poultry, 

 and hardy cattle he obtained from the Ork- 

 neys, horses and sheep from Canada. The soil 

 he enriched with fish-offal, and he cultivated 

 seven acres, some of which was under glass. 



For fertilizers decayed seaweed and fish- 

 refuse are both excellent and ready at hand. 

 It has been supposed that guemo could be ob- 

 tained in Labrador from the islands where the 



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