Some time ago we undertook the somewhat interesting and rather pathetic task of giving in these columns, from old files, reminiscences of early history of Kilmore and ...
Article : 1,747 wordsWhile reconnoitering in Weatmoreland County, Virginnia, one of General Washington's officers chanced upon a fine team of horses driven before a plough by a burly ...
Article : 354 wordsOne of the most successful of northern dairymen, Mr S. R. Lancaster, sets down the following rules for the guidance of dairymen in judging dairy stock .— ...
Article : 269 wordsNewspapers are excellent things for keeping out the cold, and there is the advantage that old ones are as good as new, Put a four-page pad under your waistcoat and ...
Article : 110 wordsA farmer who lived in a certain rural village had 20 employee on his farm, and as none of them were as energetic ma the farmer thought they should be, be hit. up a plan ...
Article : 113 wordsWe quote the following from a lecture given by Professor G. W. Shaw, on the above subject :— The minus quality of our soils lies not so ...
Article : 404 wordsA famous doctor visited a crusty old laird who was laid up with the gout. He wanted to go out with his gun, and was in a temper. While the doctor was looking at his foot, he ...
Article : 115 wordsOne of the reasons why the Austrian peasant on the Eastern frontier makes a bad soldier is that be is horribly afraid of the night and its ghostly inhabitants. The local ...
Article : 95 wordsSingle-handed. during the fighting in the Lille region, a trooper of the French Dragoons undertook to prevent the enemy blowing up a swing bridge, some eight miles ...
Article : 78 wordsA correspondent of the ' Breeders' Gazette' gives the following method for preventing sore shoulders on horses :— ' We have tried for about ten years and ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Frenchman's ideal woman must be e paragon of the domestic virtues, to judge by the result of a competition organised by a Paris newspaper to establish the ten ideal ...
Article : 88 wordsThis is the text book advice on which the American farmer works :— Use the harrow freely both before and after planting corn, When the plants are ...
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Advertising : 393 wordsTrooper W. Green, lying wounded at York, tells the following story :— " There's a horse of the Royal Irish Lancers that ought to have a Victoria Cross if ever anybody ought. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe following experiment is reported in the North-Western Farmer':— At the Mississippi Experiment Station three cows were kept without salt for four ...
Article : 101 wordsIt is said that the firing of the German siege guns at Liege has been heard at Maasricht, in Holland, some twenty miles away. That, of course, is nothing to the story that ...
Article : 355 wordsStead and Stevenson alike had what the Scots call a good conceit of themselves, and neither of them was in the least degree inclined to hide his light under a bushel. They ...
Article : 247 wordsCharon was a man who fried soles over the sticks. Simon de Montfort formed what wee known as the Mad Parliament—it was ...
Article : 208 wordsFaith, it's curious,' said a travelled Irishman, 'how these little disease insects do be called in different places. In Germany they call them germs, and in Paris parasites, ...
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Kilmore Free Press (Kilmore, Vic. : 1870 - 1954), Thu 18 Mar 1915, Page 1
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