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  2. THE RURAL WORLD

    New regulations dealing with the importation of seed will probably be adopted. Under the Commonwealth Quarantine Act power will probably be ...

    Article : 66 words
  3. JOURNEYS IN THIBET

    The Royal Geographical Society held a special meeting in the Queen's Hall. London on February 8, to hear an address by Dr. Sven Hedin, entitled "My ...

    Article : 538 words
  4. NOTES AND QUERIES

    Exports from Launceston by the Loongana yesterday included 108 bags potatoes, 350 bags oats, 90 bales straw, and 189 bags peas. ...

    Article : 59 words
  5. SEA ELEPHANT HUNT

    Of late years sea elephants and seals, which abound on Kerguelen Island, have enjoyed an extremely uncertain tenure of life. Bands of adventurous hunters bent ...

    Article : 1,243 words
  6. DISCOVERED BY THE THIBETANS.

    Still keeping straight south, they duly passed Kinchen-la, and were encamped in a valley going down to Raga-tasam on April 27, when they were visited by a ...

    Article : 324 words
  7. IN THE COUNTRY

    Preparations are well in hand for the autumn fruit and produce show to be held at Lower Piper on the 14th inst. A good exhibition, especially in fruit, is ...

    Article : 100 words
  8. EGG-LAYING COMPETITION

    The New Zealand egg-laying competition has closed, with the White Leghorns occupying the leading positions. The highest pen was 1251. Mr. Luck's ...

    Article : 45 words
  9. IN THE HEART OF THE ALTITUDES.

    They left Durguk on December 7. It was a hard journey that now began, the hardest he had ever made. They penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart ...

    Article : 597 words
  10. MARKETS—LATEST VALUES

    Produce deliveries to-day were:—5398 sacks potatoes, 420 ditto oats, 178 ditto peas, 254 bales straw, 34 sacks wheat, 205 ditto chaff. The potato market was ...

    Article : 113 words
  11. VICTORIAN STATISTICS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 words
  12. INTERSTATE QUOTATIONS.

    Wheat was rather quiet, though fairly firm in tone. Ordinary parcels were quoted at from 4s 9½d to 4s 10d, and good-sized parcels, forward delivery, at ...

    Article : 190 words
  13. A NEW GEOGRAPHICAL REGION.

    If he had not been discovered here he should have continued eastwards. His dream now was to finish up definitely with the problem of Transhimalaya. The ...

    Article : 492 words
  14. A PROFIT OF £49 PER ACRE

    A remarkable effort in intensive cultivation is recorded by the head of Wye(Kent) Agricultural College in the journal of the Board of Agriculture and ...

    Article : 189 words
  15. ROTATION OF STUDY AND CROPS

    That the good effects of a proper rotation of crops upon the energies of the soil were known to the ancients may be learned from the reading of the letter of ...

    Article : 539 words
  16. WHEAT MARKET.

    East of the Rocky Mountains the American visible supply of wheat is estimated at 62,200,000 bushels, as against 64,188,000 bushels a week ago. ...

    Article : 62 words
  17. THE MYSTERY OF THE MOUNTAIN RANGE.

    He stayed a month and a half at Shigatse. As to the ambassadors from Lhasa, who had to arrange with him which way to return, he decided not to tell them ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  18. BUTTER EXPORTS.

    Butter exports from Victoria during March for oversea destinations amounted to only 227,2091b., as against 1,083,1121b. for March, 1908. The value was £11,775, ...

    Article : 40 words
  19. INCIDENTS IN THE NAVY

    The writer of the column, "Under the Lion," in the February number of "The Fleet," says:—"I daresay I shall get into hot water over an article I have ...

    Article : 490 words
  20. LARGESHIPMENT OF FRUIT

    The White Star liner Medic sailed on Tuesday night from Hobart for London and Liverpool, being the eleventh of the special fruit steamers despatched ...

    Article : 178 words
  21. THE RIGOURS OF THE CLIMATE.

    On January 11 they camped at the very same point as last year, at the shore of the Aksai-chion Lake. It was like a funeral procession, every day took a mute ...

    Article : 647 words
  22. ABOUT SHARKS

    The great peril and pest of tropical waters is the shark. Never so long as he lives will the writer forget his first experience of a shark. Years ago he ...

    Article : 437 words
  23. AUSTRALIAN WOOL TRADE

    Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort., and Co.'s, Limited, annual review of the Australian wool trade for the season 1908-9 is to hand. Among other things, it states:— ...

    Article : 888 words
  24. PROFIT IN PIGS

    A Yorkshire board of guardians, which goes in for a bit of farming, does exceedingly well out of the feeding of pigs. A number of stores are bought in, fattened, ...

    Article : 199 words
  25. A BED FOR IRON SIDES.

    Tourist (at ancient rural hostelry, coming down to breakfast with a haggard, unrested appearance)—''Last night, madam, you informed me that the great ...

    Article : 122 words
  26. Advertising

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    Advertising : 36 words
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