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Show BREED IN ARCTIC REGIONS v Unlimited Supply of Berries Furnishes Food for Many Millions of Birds. "Millions of birds go to tho arctic regions to breed," siys on explorer. "They get there aro finest, rarest food that Is to bo found In tho wholo world. Tho vegetation of tho tundra, orgieat arctic swamp, consists of cranberries, cloudberries and crow borries hundreds hun-dreds of millions of bushels. This fruit Is not ripe till tho end of tho brief, fierce arctic summer ot Incessant Inces-sant sunshine, but tho birds arrive at the summer's beginning thoy arrive ar-rive the first d'ay of tho melting of tho snows. And they would starve waiting for tho tundra's fruit to ripen, but for a miracle that permits per-mits them to eat lant year's Instead of this car's fruit. Tor tho borries of the tundrn aro no sooner rlpo at a summer's end than tho snow covers them, ljlng fot ten months on them In an Impervious, air-tight, frozon mantle of white, and with the next summer, when the snow melts away, thero aro revealed billions on billions of perfectly frosh berries, linn and cold and sweet, stretching across tho breadth of Asia." |