House and Garden 
have awakened to the benefits and prof¬ 
its to be gained by modern methods 
of raising fruit and the annual meetings 
of the State Horticultural Society have 
done much to bring about this result. 
Growers who were a few years ago earn¬ 
ing from $100 to $300 an acre from their 
fruit made this season from $800 to 
$1,200 an acre and the reason is, not in 
better seasons and other similar condi¬ 
tions, but in the manner in which the 
trees and vines are tended. The fruit 
growing industry is growing into mam¬ 
moth proportions in Washington, and in 
fact throughout the Northwest. 
TESTS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE 
BEAMS 
IDULLETIN No. 14, Tests of Re- 
inforced Concrete Beams, Series 
of 1906, has just been issued by the 
University of Illinois Engineering Ex¬ 
periment Station. The tests described 
are a continuation of the tests discussed 
in Bulletin No. 4. 
The topics investigated include the eff ect 
of quality of concrete upon the strength 
of beams, the effect of repetitive loading 
upon the action of beams, and the 
resistance of beams to diagonal tension 
failures. The results of the investiga¬ 
tion of diagonal tension failures throw 
light upon the amount of the vertical 
shearing stress which may be allowed in 
reinforced concrete beams not having 
metallic web reinforcement. The resis¬ 
tance of beams to diagonal tension may 
be the controlling feature of relatively 
short beams, and as such failures occur 
suddenly and without much warning, a 
knowledge of the resistance of the con¬ 
crete is essential. Some beams gave 
surprisingly low values and it seems evi¬ 
dent that the values allowed by many 
city building ordinances are higher than 
should be recommended. 
THE MAISONNEUVE MONUMENT, 
MONTREAL 
^^HE best monument in Montreal, 
one of the best on the American 
Continent, is the Maisonneuve Mon¬ 
ument, in the Place d’Armes. It is 
the work of Philippe Hebert of Mon¬ 
treal. This masterpiece is well worth 
the journey to Canada to see. Maison¬ 
neuve was the founder of the city of 
Montreal. The place was granted to 
the Sulpicians from Paris, and at first 
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Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. 
Pickwick Papers. By Charles Dickens. 
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