[Magdalen] Plain Speech.--cat-tails

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Sibyl Smirl

>Cat-tails are very valuable plants, for quite a number of reasons.  I "have" 
>some that I value as individuals, in a small "creek" (I think it was once one, 
>by the lay of the land) that became a drainage ditch for

My mother took some cattails from the lake in Mine and planted them at the 
bottom of our fishpond in the side yard in Lynbrook. The Cattails thrived fro 
awhile, but more interesting was that there apparently were frog eggs 
attached --  so we had lots of tadpoles and then lots of frogs in and around the 
fishpond, which also sported some huge goldfish.

>years ago: I would assume that the rails were sold as recycling for steel, 
>though I don't know--our steel industry is so far gone, maybe

If the rails were in good shape, they were likely used as relay rail or even 
welded together as ribbon rail for use elsewhere.

But I don’t think you need fret about scrap metal not being reprocessed here in 
the U.S. Recycling scrap metal into new steel product is thriving in the U.S. 
It's the blast furnace that actually make steel out of iron ore is what has 
mainly gone away.

Cheers,
Jim