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��How Would You Like To Be in the Place of the Man in This Picture?

THE spiderlike silhouette near the apex of the angle formed by the falling top and the majestic trunk of the magnificent Douglas fir in the center of the picture is that of a man, the logging foreman of a lumber company on Puget Sound. These giant firs are greatly needed for the keels, frames and other parts of the big wooden ships now building for the Gov ernment and are supplied almost exclusively by the forests of Washington and Oregon states.

The big tree in the picture was one hundred and eighty feet high before its top was cut off. At the point where the cut was made the trunk had a diameter of twenty-two inches. The fore- man climbed the tree with telephone-linemen's spikes and fastened him- self to the trunk with a lineman's belt. It took him twenty minutes to cut the top.

��Here Are Some War Breads You Have Never Known

OWING to the shortage of wheat the powers that be have been experi- menting to see whether satisfactory bread cannot be made from other cereals. They have come to the conclusion that they can — very much so.

The chief grains which the researches have added to our food-stuflfs are cottonseed meal, kafir corn, feterita, grain sorghums, and milo. So far all these have been used to feed to stock, but it is found that they can all be milled and made into bread. Not only that, but the bread is more palatable and much more nutritious than wheat bread ever thought of being. For instance, cot- tonseed meal contains about forty-five per cent, of proteins, whereas wheat only con- tains about nine per cent.

Of these new grains, Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma can supply enough to make up this year's wheat shortage, while next year, with more planted, the supply will be abundant. Texas is capable of supplying the whole country alone if necessary, so that there is no danger of a bread shortage.

���Cutting the top off a big fir at Puget Sound. It took twenty minutes to cut

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