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Show llorlleiitUral lrlori. Aa to the necessity for forest preser- ration we may learn a lesson from some of the older countries In the world notably India Not because In-I In-I dla has protected her forests but be I cauw ah baa not The Kngllsh authorities au-thorities In India hare been trylni; for many years to protect and conaerve the forrU of that country, but with only partial success Some areas have ta set aside a public forests and these are supposed to bo under the protection pro-tection of the government but the short sighted pollelee of the natne populations mako It extremely difficult j to onforce laws relatlre to the saving ot the forfeits In splto of tho watch-folnena watch-folnena of tho olilclals the nntlres set I tre to tho forests generally for one of two rcaona The flrct la to scare out the game, and It oltun bappiuin tia. I for game north a fez doJars tob,. dividual hunters forest trees wtnttl Uioussndi of dollars aro burned ip, I The second cause for Incendlarllu , I the desire of native farmers W i, "Hrly and good pasture fcV their fo slock In one provlnceinast ycr H I (Knmcres were burned over To ss , the dTmrultyJif stopping thlayriga I darlsm by punlshmsnt IT laJpatrtg l that one mahthat Wd set Mire tg i forit and burM ayJ0tf acro5 valuable?" Irrei was flned ten rupee I 12 07 according to tho present'ValM . ot the rupee Some of fie nattvee H fire to large bodies ot trees for lag take ot smoking out the raUwi they use for food lndRt todayta la poverU&ed lit her foresU and the ye& ly famines nre wlde-rread and Ce-structle Ce-structle There aro few forests tl urge trees In India. There, s bn It Is fire that destroys the timber Ir the United State tho annual growl of forest trees creates mora lumixi than is needed for commercial utt One government omdal said, In tit presence of the writer ' I hnvo seeni slnglo Ore In Colorado that burned i more timber than waa uird'Mn tlf United States in that year, and tbeii havo been several such Arcs In Cot orado In my day ' Government) everywhere should make law to prti tect the forests and then they shoul make mtllcleut appropriations to eiy force thru) Australia Is taking preliminary aten to establish a fruit trade with Englanl and other European countries, an promise to be an fcnlerprlilng rival ot the United States Tho Australian fruit grnwera propose to Import Into Kngland In large quantities not only, apples, pears nnd tho harder fruits, but j such soft fruit a peaches and grapes. They havo gone about 11 tn a systematic system-atic manner They first laid a plan for shipping good sited conlnmcnts In tho refrigerators of the steamsra sailing to Hngland The outbreak of the lioer war necessitated giving up the plan for laat season, a the refrigerators refrig-erators of the steamer wero taxed to their full capacity for other things Tho Australian had planned to send to Kngland over S 004 cases ot fruit of different kinds As thoy ncro shut oft nt tho last moment from actually making the loiislgnments they determined deter-mined to mako a trial on land, putting put-ting tho fruit In chamber where the temperaturo would be kept as low as It would be In the refrigerators ot the steamers Tho time required In making mak-ing the trip from Melbourne to Liverpool Liver-pool Is about eight weeks but the fruit men msdo the limit ten weeks to pro-vldo pro-vldo for delays In shipping and discharging dis-charging The trial proved a complete com-plete success, with the exception of peaches, about one half of which spoiled Hence we may expect that another season wilt see some Urge shipments of Australian fruit to England Eng-land American producers,, ot fruit will have to do 'on the alert If they wish to prevent a largo part of their very prontable foreign fruit trade slipping away from litem and going Into the hands of the Australians The. tact that the Australian summer begins be-gins n December and that their ftiill I ready for gathering In .March oil April kivo them a peculiar advan over u Their shipment will ar.lv In Liverpool In May June July and Augiut and tlielr winter apple my j be depended on to keep aa late at l Christmas If tho Australian applet .are equal In flavor to the American apples tho Kngllah buyers will not b 1 very hungry for fruit when our ship- ments arrive Of courao the thing i W0Mk.b?h WBy DUt wo do the bulk of the trade now any change muit work lo our disadvantage The moral of the situation la that wo must grow tho quality of fruit that nulla the l"ng Hah market at least enough ot It to fill the demand for export goods also believe that the United Ststtt government should take scrnt such step to foster our foreign fruit trade as Denmark has taken to build up her butter trade An agent should bt permanently located In I'ngland to look after the trade and see that American Am-erican gooda are up to demand In quality We know from reports from Kngland that tome of the fruit sant to England haa disgusted buyers there, Tho yellow Insipid peachnt from California Cali-fornia that were laat year dumped on the London market did much damage to tho American trade In export peaches and It 1 agulnst our Interests that auch Incidents should frequently occur |