NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2357, 19 November 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Very little ice is made in England, the greater bulk of it being imported from Norway in special fast wooden ships. The ice comes from the lakes high up in the mountains, and is cut by horse ploughs and then hewn into blocks by long-toothed handsaws. America is to build a dam 500 ft. high across the Colorado River, to impound. 03 per cent, of the water in a storage basin over 200 miles in length. Four million horse-power will bo developed and distributed over an area of 800,000 square miles. Nova Scotian apple-growers claim that this year’s crop constitutes a record, and they expect, a harvest of 2,000,000 barrels. Owing to the indifferent condition of apples grown elsewhere, an unprecedented nifmber of inquiries are being received in Nova Scotia. A mountain of calcium phosphate (or lime) 25 miles long by 10 miles wide, is located 20 miles north of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The lime oozes out of the earth like the waters of a boiling spring, and when the sun is shining brightly one cannotl ook on its glaring whiteness without wearing smoked gljisses. In gardens there are aboutso,ooo worms to each acre, whils tin the fields tvery acre contains about 30,000 of them. By collecting and carefully weighing all the casts thrown up on a measured piece of ground over a long period Darwin arived at the amazing result that worm,easts raise the level of the whole land one-fifth of-an inch in a year.