PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



A 20TH CENTURY PLANT. 



I recently had the pleasure of inspecting 

 the Postum Cereal Company's works at 

 Battle Creek, Mich., and the tour through 

 the 14 buildings occupied by this company 

 was deeply interesting and instructive. The 

 consumption of Grape Nuts and Postum 

 Coffee is greater than any one outside_ of 

 the Postum Company's works can imagine. 

 For instance, 1,700 bushels of wheat are 

 ground every day. This means that it takes 

 34,000 acres of good wheat land to supply 

 these works a year. At the present price 

 of wheat it would take nearly $700,000 to 

 buy the wheat used in this one plant in a 

 year. 



In addition to the wheat, about 150,000 

 bushels of barley are consumed each year; 

 16,000 wooden cases of these products go 

 out each day, and it takes nearly 300,000 

 pounds of nails to hold these boxes together. 

 It requires 11,000 tons of coal to run the 

 Postum engines a year. The factories and 

 office buildings cover 7 acres of ground and 

 over 1,500 people are employed in the 

 works. 



Mr. Post has built nearly 300 houses for 

 his employees, and these are sold to the men 

 at cost, on small monthly payments. 



What impressed and pleased me most 

 about the works was the immaculate clean- 

 liness of everything and every person em- 

 ployed in making the Postum goods. 

 Even the floors are so clean that you could 

 sit down anywhere and eat your lunch 

 with a relish. 



There is throughout the entire plant an 

 air of rush, thrift, industry and prosperity 

 that convinces the visitor of the vast de- 

 mand for Grape Nuts and Postum Coffee. 



BOOK OF THE GREAT NORTHERN. 



F. I. Whitney, general passenger agent 

 of the Great Northern Railway, has issued 

 a book of 125 pages entitled, "Across Am- 

 erica," which is worthy of a place in every 

 house in the land as a history and a work 

 of art. It contains a vast -fund of infor- 

 mation regarding the great belt of North- 

 western territory reached by the various 

 lines of the Great Northern Railway and is 

 illustrated with 100 or more beautiful pic- 

 tures, such as may be seen from the win- 

 dows of Great Northern trains or steam- 

 ships. Mr. Whitney has made a new de- 

 parture in preparing this book in that he 

 has reduced large photographs to very small 

 dimensions, so that while the pictures il- 

 lustrate vast stretches of country, or im- 

 portant objects of interest along the way, 



yet they sparkle like gems in a diadem. 

 They treat of the most picturesque part of 

 America, and the man or woman or child 

 who has not seen that country can learn 

 vastly of it by studying this book. Those 

 who have been fortunate enough to trav- 

 erse the great wheat belt, the Northern 

 Rockies and Cascades will here find many 

 forcible reminders of what they saw there 

 and the memory will be aided by reviewing 

 the journey in this convenient and artistic 

 way. 



Write for a copy of the book, enclosing 

 6 cents in stamps, and mention Recreation. 



WHERE GAME ABOUNDS. 



One of the chief difficulties of the sports- 

 man, the question where to go and when 

 to go, is solved by the publication of the 

 booklet "Fishing and Shooting," by the 

 Canadian Pacific railway. It gives a run- 

 ning account of all the many sporting 

 regions of the Dominion of Canada, tells 

 what each can offer, how it may be reached 

 and what faculties in the way of accom- 

 modation, guides, canoes, outfits, etc., are 

 to be procured. It is an eminently prac- 

 tical little work, compiled by men who have 

 been there themselves and know what they 

 are talking about, and it may be obtained 

 free from any agent of the company, or by 

 writing to the Advertising Agent, Windsor 

 Street Station, Montreal, Que. 



In former issues of the book an "appendix 

 containing a synopsis of the game laws of 

 the Provinces and States touched on was 

 added. This is now issued as a separate 

 publication, to be procured in the same 

 way, and anyone contemplating a trip into 

 Canada should write direct to the nearest 

 C P. R. agent or to th: advertising agent 

 of the Canadian Pacific railway, who will 

 give him the information requested by re- 

 turn mail. E. V. Skinner, A. T. M., 458 

 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 



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Bird, Jones & Kenyon, of Utica, N. Y., 

 have issued a booklet describing and illus- 

 trating their new line of Duxbak sports- 

 men's clothing. These people started some 

 months ago to make what they called the 

 Duxbak coat. This proved so popular and 

 sold so rapidly that they have now added a 

 line of trousers and hats, thus making a 

 complete suit of rain proof clothing. The 

 book contains samples of the goods from 

 which these garments are made and numer- 

 ous cuts, showing the styles employed. On 

 page 13 there are diagrams of the coat an<3 

 trousers, with full instructions for meas- 

 uring, so that any man wanting a suit may 



