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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 120, 7 February 1918, Page 6

The following extract from the "Manchester Guardian" shows the enormous quantity of cotton that is being used on the 'battlefield:—A 12-inch fjun disposes of half a halo of cotton with every shot lired. A machine-gun operating will use a bale in three minutes. In a naval battle, like the one off .Jutland, from live to six thousand pounds a minute are consumed by each active warship. It takes more than twenty thousand bales a year to provide absorbent cotton to staunch and bind the wounds of the injured. The change of apparel for all the troops now rngmied in war represents more than a million hales! One hundred thousand bales will he required to equip the proposed aeroplane fleet, if cotton, as may be necessary, sunnlants linen for wjn'gs. The United States is now turning nearly a million bales a year into explosives alone. :

COUOTT FOT? S3 YEAI?R. . BAXTER'S CUBED HTJf. A grateful user writes: "\ take Baxter's Ijnng Preserver, occasionally, and it does me a lot of good.' Had a cough for '!2 years and vour Lung Preserver was the onlT thitiT Hint relieved m»." Tnl.-»,n biff 13 lOd. bottle home, to-day.—Advt,

BarraclouKh's Progandra cures Corns quickly.—Advt.