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  2. FARM AND FIELD

    Farmyard manure is being wasted when the manure heap is too dry, and gives off a smell of ammonia, and also when it is too wet, and a black liquid ...

    Article : 290 words
  3. THE DAIRY.

    The following article written by Mr C. M. Winslow, Secretary of the American Ayrshire Breeders' Association, appeared recently in the "Rural New ...

    Article : 1,100 words
  4. THE POULTRY YARD.

    The mite is one of the worst enemies of chickens. It lives and breeds in fissures about buildings and feeds upon the fowls when they go upon the nest or ...

    Article : 587 words
  5. THE VINEYARD.

    At the Brewers' Exhibition, which is being held in London this year from October 17 until October 23, a class in the wine sections has been added to ...

    Article : 693 words
  6. THE BLIND BOY.

    Gerald Cumberland writes in the "Daily News":— The boy who lives next door is blind, and few can resist the easy ...

    Article : 902 words
  7. A WOMAN OF QUALITY.

    "M.H." writes in the "Daily Mail":— e A woman of quality! The old-fashioned phrase has a pleasant meaning, and might well be brought back again ...

    Article : 1,302 words
  8. THE BEEKEEPER.

    After the late Spring flow ceases there is, in most localities, little for the bees to gather for several weeks, until the early Autumn flowers begin to show ...

    Article : 401 words
  9. Green Manuring.

    The advantage to be derived from ploughing in a suitable green crop in early spring, in conjunction with fallowing, is becoming better appreciated. It ...

    Article : 298 words
  10. ORCHARD LADDERS.

    The fruit-nicking season will soon commence. The construction of the ladder shown in Fig. 1 will be easily comprehended at a glance at the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 128 words
  11. TOBACCO AND THE CHURCH.

    With reference to the establishment of that American men's church where smoking is encouraged, it may be recalled (writes the "Westminster ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. GENERAL NOTES.

    To be overstocked at any time is a losing position. The carrot is by far the best root for horse feeding that is grown. ...

    Article : 597 words
  13. DIED ON ICE-FLOE.

    A telegram from Copenhagen on August 6 said that Mr Mylius Erichsen, the leader of the. Denmark Greenland expedition, and two companions, a Dane ...

    Article : 371 words
  14. BARONET'S HEIR.

    In the "Daily Chronicle" of August 11 was recorded the news that from a common lodging-house in Dover the funeral had taken place of a former tenant who, ...

    Article : 493 words
  15. ICE-CREAM.

    An Italian contemporary has recently investigated the "hygiene of the ice-cream," and the results are interesting. The inquiry has rehablitated the real ...

    Article : 348 words
  16. CINGALESE CEREMONY.

    Inhabitants of the Ceylon Village at the Franco-British Exhibition were astir early the other day to celebrate one of their feast days. ...

    Article : 398 words
  17. THE POSTMASTER'S PROMPTITUDE.

    The young postmaster of a village was hard at work in his office when a gentle tap was heard upon the door, and in stepped a blushing maiden of sixteen, ...

    Article : 306 words
  18. A WONDERFUL STOVE.

    A gentleman engaged a servant fresh from the country, who was a splendid servant, but she did not know anything about a gas cooking stove. Therefore, ...

    Article : 145 words
  19. HE COULDN'T.

    At a London dinner given recently in honor of a Colonial visitor, a young man, whose chief aim to distinction seemed to be the height of his collar ...

    Article : 158 words
  20. HUMORIANA.

    Near a Stud.—"Board in country cottage near gold links."—"Daily Mail." "Cottage near bone collar-stud" is what we have always been on the look ...

    Article : 98 words
  21. LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON.

    Mrs John Lane writes in the "Westminster Gazette":— To those who loved her, and to those who admired her, of both of whom there ...

    Article : 930 words
  22. HOLIDAY CONTRASTS.

    A holiday, to the majority of women, means an opportunity of displaying their taste in clothes; to men it is an opportunity for rest, and the discarding ...

    Article : 61 words
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