Full length photo of operator taken as he holds the instrument, demonstrating the wide angle of a lens intended for taking sky-scrapers. AUSTRALIAN STRIPPERS AT WORK. Machines that take only the tops of the ripened grain, leaving the straw behind. The larger of these two fish was five feet and six inches long and weighed sixty pounds. The boy will weigh more, but may never be much longer " than the fish. RECORD CATCH OF COD WHA WHAT is declared to be the biggest cod ever taken from the sea is that depicted in the accompanying photograph. The larger fish measured five feet six inches in length and turned the scale at sixty pounds. They were taken in the waters off Battle Harbor on the coast of Labrador by Newfoundland fishermen. Cod fishing, of course, is the principal industry of this colony, over $6,000,000 of this fish being exported annually. But the industry offers much scope for development. At present most of the exports are sent away as "dry codfish." The opportunity offers for "packing" of the cod in small, cheap cans, as is done with the salmon on the Pacific Coast. The small boy in the photograph seems to be quite overpowered by the company in which he has found himself. cement, the output of natural and puzzolan cement forming but a small percentage of the total cement production. By reason of improvements in methods of manufacture, Portland cement can now be profitably sold at 80 cents a barrel. There are 103 Portland cement plants now in operation, of which 21 are in Pennsylvania, 12 in Michigan, 10 in Kansas, 8 in Ohio, 7 in New York, 6 in Indiana, 5 in Illinois, and 5 in California. Practically all of this enormous cement output was used at home. This denizen of the sea has a spread of twelve feet from tip to tip of his claws. The body is one foot across. The species is found in the ocean off Japan and sometimes at a depth of 1000 feet. |