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Country Fires
Visitors to some of our eastern counties have been impressed by the great amount of dead bracken, which looks and is singu- larly inflammable. A good deal of bracken is cut in the West Country for use as litter among other purposes, and is regarded as a crop -that is not to be despised; whether or no it is worth anything in the more highly sophisticated parts of England, where waste or contempt of natural sources of wealth is habitual, it might very well be worth the while of local bodies to use a few unemployed men in the work of removing one of the chief foods of heath fires. In the language of the old Baconian logicians, it is often the " material cause " of fires of which the cigarette end is the " efficient cause," and the carelessness of the holiday-maker a part of the " formal cause."
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