Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-21
VIEWS AND NEAR-VIEWS;
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
Figures Telling at High Cost az I.i,-
inI-Shnde Along Highways.
Trees md Ncwspupcrs.

u" get an idea OF the high COS, of
living one has only 10 study the re-.
mHrkahlc figures Just issued by the
United states department OF Arri-
culture OF last years crops aud their
value as compared with two years
back While the figures taken as !,
whole show that there were fewer
bushels of grain and potatoes and
Tower pounds OF meat and fewer
tons of hay produced last year
than tho year before the value of all
crops of 1916. including meats and
other live stock products, brought the
producers S".1I0.O00.oD0 more than did
tn" products Of the land in the wear
1913. the uns"ld products OF last year
being estimated on tho basis of be-
c"inbcr prices. The total value OF az.
ricultural products. including live
stock. last year was Sl3.273.0lS. sos. In
1915 the total was Sin..Ol .UOp. 600 FOR
larger crops. Miglny hiI nGurcs ,hose.
and Il mighty big difference ia tie
values Of the TWO years.
The PENNSYLVANIA state Department
of Forestry and the State Highway he.
Iartmcnt have completed arrangements
i"' co-or"ratton in planting shade trees
and fruit trees along the state high.
ways. The trees viii bc grown from
seed by tho forestry department in it's
nurseries. trausplantcd in areas set
ASIA" Tor the purpose. then turned over
to the highway department When thew
have attained suitable size Good roads
organizations viii also assist III the
planting at that time. Wondcg il some.
th'nS IKE this can bc started in Nir.
CHINA: Any summer traveller along
the improved and sunny highways al
IN" old commonwealth can tcsii-v 10
the necessity Of it,
III this day OF paper famincs il is
interesting to note that while tho peu-
pie "f Austria are largely on the fight
ING Tue, some Of those left at home
have been making some most inter.
ostinG experiments. y trial Was mad"
IN that country last spring u decide
ia low shnr, space of time living
trees could be converted into news
papers. ~ Essential. ON Aprii u.
at 1:3i in the morning. three trees
were sawn down; at 1894 tnr wood
having been stripped az bark cut up
and converted into pulp became paper.
and passed from the factory 10 the
press. from whence the first printed
and folded COPY WAS issued n, 10
o'clock 50 that in It5 minutes the
trees had become newspapers
Virginia forest or two carried
through tina, process would solve tho
mcwsrrint problem right speedily
y p"whatam farmer. writing Tho
Times Dispatch. enters Il protest
against what h" calls tho uuwise
war against our Nirr mia pigeons" He
writes pigeons arc no, dcs,ructiv"
TO gardcus as is commonly believed.
Their beaks arc not like that Of the
crow. TO enable them 10 dig. nor h3tyc
they feet like til" chickens to scratch
with Pigeons simply walk over the
surface Of the ground aud pick up
what is in plain sight. which consists
principally Of Weed seeds. and TO that
cNtcu, a, least they are helpful birds
Hadn't heard that any war was being
"aScd aginst tho innocent pigeons but
IN" above viii do foi 81 hint anyhow
Tho city OF 81 raui. up in Mime
sofa. claims /" have saved S235,VoO in
1916 by economies in expenditures and
public improvements have not been
curtailch to hurt. II might bc well
for some Virginia towns I" send ci,y
official L" 81 Paul 80 take 81 post
graduate course
New York Capital im West NirEinia.
IiAltTlAND W. VA. January 20
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