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of failure to comply with the requirements of the Act, he has 

 power to serve a notice requiring the occupier to cut down and 

 destroy the weeds within a specified period, not exceeding fifteen 

 days. If this warning is ineffective, the inspector may enter on 

 the land and cause the weeds to be destroyed, when the occupier 

 becomes liable to a fine, \^'ith a maximum of one year's imprison- 

 ment in default of payment. 



The Act provides for the cost of destruction, in cases of failure 

 to comply with notices served by an inspector, to be charged to 

 tbe occupier, and collected in the same way as loc:al taxes. 



Two points of interest indicate the view of the Provincial 

 Assembly that prevention is better than cure. In the first place, 

 fines up to one hundred dollars may be inflicted on dealers who 

 sell grain, grass seed, or food products containing a greater pro- 

 portion of noxious weed seeds than is allowed by the regulations 

 made under Dominion legislation. Secondly, provision is made, 

 under penalties for failure to comply, for threshing machines to 

 be cleaned after the completion of each operation and before the 

 machine is moved, in order to prevent the seeding of clean 

 land with weeds. 



One other special provision is, perhaps, worthy of men- 

 tion. Owners of land are prohibited by the Act from 

 letting any land upon which noxious weeds exist -^dthout giving 

 the prospective tenant written notice of the condition of the land, 

 as reported by the local inspector, and obtaining from him a 

 statement that he is prepared to accept all responsibility. 



* * 



A PROCESS for seasoning timber by subjecting it to the action 



of a current of air containing a certain percentage of ozone has 



m. « heen invented by M. Otto, Professor at the 



TimDer-Seasomng , , ^ . ^, . , ^ 



Invention "^orbonne, Pans. The process is said to 

 give the same result in about twenty days 

 as would be obtained by natural seasoning in the course of several 

 years. A micrographic examination is reported to show thut 

 samples of oak and walnut which had been treated by the pro- 

 cess show the same characteristics as seasoned wood, while the 

 treatment does not change the colour of the wood. The Otto 

 process is being worked by a French Company which has con- 

 structed works at Seregno, near Milan, and will shortly build 

 new works in the neighbourhood of Paris. 



