The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-11-08

for game worth = few dollars Co IN |
dividual hunters forest trees worth |
thousands OF dollars are burned up
The second cause for incendiarisn is |
the desire OF native farmers to get |
early and good pasture for their farm
stock In one province last year 5e.-
900 acres were burned over. To show
the difficulty OF stopping this 1ncen-
darism by punishment it is narrated
that one man that had set fire to a
forest and burned up 1900 acres OF
valuable trees was fined ten rupees
-S2.O7. according to the present value
Of the rupee Some OF the natives set
fire to large bodies of trees for the
sake OF smoking out the rats, which
they use for food. India today Is i'm
poyerished in her forests and the year
ly famines are widespread ana de-
structive There are few forests of
large trees In India There. as here,
it is fire that destroys the timber IN
the United States the annual growth
OF forest trees creates more lum Der
than Is needed for commercial use
One government official said, IN the
presence OF the writer Il have seen
single fire in Colorado that burned lap
more timber than was used in the
United States in that year. and there
have been several such fires in Cot
orado in my day" Governments
everywhere should make laws to pre-
tect the forests and then they should
make sufficient appropriations to en-
force them
Australia IS taking preliminary steps
to establish a fruit trade with England
and other European countries. and
promises to be an enterprising rival
of the United States. The Australian
fruit growers propose to import into
England in large quantities not only
apples. pears and the harder fruits, but
such soft fruits as peaches and grapes
They have gone about 1t In system
attic manner. They first laid plan
for shipping good-Sized consignmentS
In the refrigerators of the steamers
sailing to England. The outbreak of
the BOer war necessitated giving up
the plan for last season. as the refrig-
orators OF the steamers were taxed to
their full capacity for other things.
The Australians had planned to send
to England over 5000 cases OF fruit of
| different kinds. AS they were shut
| OF at the last moment from actually
making the consignments, they deter
| mined to make a trial on land. put
| ting the fruit In chamber where the
| temperature would be kept as low as It
would be in the refrigerators of the
| steamers The time required IN max
| ing the trip from Melbourne to Liver
| pool is about eight weeks, but the fruit
/ men made the limit ten weeks to pro-
charging. The trial proved COM
| plete success, with the exception of
| peaches. about one-ha1f OF which
| spoiled Hence, We may expect that
| another season will see some large
| shipments of Australian fruit to Eng
| land American producers Of fruit
| will have to be on the alert if they
| wish to prevent a large part of their
| very profitable foreign fruit trade
slipping away from them and going
| into the hands Of the Australians. The
| fact that the Australian summer be-
/ gins in December and that their fruit
/ Is ready for gathering in March and
April gives them Il peculiar advantage
| over u.s. Their shipments will arrive
| in Liverpool in May June July and
August, and their winter apples may
| be depended on to keep as late as
Christmas If the Australian apples
are equal in flavor to the American
apples the English buyers Will not be
| very hungry for fruit when our ship
| nents arrive. OF course the thing
| works both ways, but as we have the
| bulk of the trade now any change must
| work to our disadvantage The moral
| OF the situation is that we must grow
| the quality of fruit that suits the Eng
fish market at least enough Of 1t TIC
| III the demand for export goods. We
| also believe that the United States
| government should take some such
SeSAS' - AoaeSi ouE foreign LTulI trade
as Denmark has taken to build VI
| her butter trade An agent should be
permanently located in England tc
| look after the trade and see that Am
erican goods are up to demand il
quality We know from reports from
England that some of the fruit sent to
| England has disguised buyers there
| The yellow insipid peaches from Cali
| fornia that were last year dumped on
| the London market did much dana &c
| to the American trade in export
peaches. and it Is against our interests
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