Gold in the Mulberry Tree.

ON Sunday His Honour the Lieutenant Governor visited the Salvation Army silk camp at Change Mange, and received an address from Commissioner Booth Tucker. The soil and climate of the Punjab are quite suited to the cultivation of the mulberry tree and Commissioner Booth Tucker shows that mulberry is a veritable pagoda tree. The uses of its leaves are too well known to need reiteration. But Commissioner Booth Tucker says that there is money in every part of the tree.  The mulberry tree is like 'the proverbial "Kalpa-Vriksha." Silk worms feed on the leaves. The twigs will make baskets. The finer tissues of the bark will furnish fibres to be woven into fabrics or made into string or rope. The same bark, if preferred, may be turned into pulp with which to make paper. The seasoned wood yields valuable timber for furniture, and its water resisting quality makes the same timber useful for piles or boats. Wood alcohol for industrial purposes can also he produced from it. Few other Indian trees except cocoanut and plantains have been known to possess such high economic value.