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  2. AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NOTES.

    These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. George Black, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, N.S.W., and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. ...

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  3. POISONING TREE SCALE.

    A correspondent in "Science" relates the following rather startling experiment in killing tree scale by poisoning the sap of the tree. He says:— ...

    Article : 362 words
  4. THINGS DONE WELL IN GERMANY.

    Sometimes you see a citizen tear up a letter and throw the pieces on the footpath. Men do it who ought to know better; men of education and responsibility, but who have not in youth ...

    Article : 215 words
  5. SHANGHAI.

    Mud-smell from the paddy field And salt-smell from the sea, And the sound of junks a-swishing down Into the dark Yang-tse; ...

    Article : 200 words
  6. WHERE EDISON MISCALCULATES.

    Edison keeps on declaring that future peoples will sleep less. If Thomas takes due notice of what is now going on in the world he must amend his forecast. The ...

    Article : 104 words
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    The relation of the marvellously thin layer of a few inches or a few feet of soil with which successive epochs have covered the surface of the eart[?], to ...

    Article : 580 words
  8. THE HUMAN TOMMY.

    Here is a real conversation which I have just had with a wounded Tommy (writes a nurse) who fought in the battle of Mons. The scene was a charming room in the house ...

    Article : 171 words
  9. NEWS FROM HOME.

    When the evening shades is fallin' at the closing of the day, An' a feller, rests from labor, smokin' of his pipe of clay, ...

    Article : 200 words
  10. TO ALL MARRIED MEN.

    An Italian inventor has invented a pocket wireless instrument which it is stated will cost about three guineas. By means of this device one can communicate with one's friends at a distance. ...

    Article : 290 words
  11. MAETERLINCK SEES RED.

    Maurice Maeterlinck, a Belgian, says the Belgians must not forget their terrible experiences nor feel presently that, after all, the mass of Germans may not be so bad. "We must be pitiless," ...

    Article : 799 words
  12. A CHRISTIAN SETBACK.

    Before the war in Europe started experts figured that about one-third of the population of the earth had been converted to Christianity. That result, requiring about twenty centuries, was ...

    Article : 105 words
  13. A RECKLESS RACE.

    The provident English, the sober English, the frugal English, even the humorless English—it is all a myth. Witness the Rector of Bishopsbourne and his letter to the London Times anent the ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. THE COURAGE WHICH MOVES A CROWD.

    It is amazing how the action of one quiet man can influence an enormous crowd. A gesture is made, and for good or ill the psychology of the crowd is acted on immediately. At a recent ...

    Article : 215 words
  15. GALLAHS.

    The destruction of gallalis is a problem for farmers in some districts. The Entomologist states that wheat soaked overnight in a solution of strychnine ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. WHY SHOULD WOMEN VOTE.

    The New York "World" is not in favor of woman suffrage, its democracy being rather of the old fashioned, "for men only" type, yet it has the following "special" on the April election in Illinois: ...

    Article : 221 words
  17. DAIRYING.

    "I think it will be generally accepted by most practical men that successful dairying depends largely on the four fundamental principles—breeding, ...

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  18. SAFETY FOR THE LITTLE FELLOWS.

    Gobang bought a cheap little car, and he was tolerably proud of it. But the boys began poking fun at it and inventing insults. Finally a friend told him that his car would be ...

    Article : 96 words
  19. POULTRY.

    The selection of laying hens has hitherto been almost exclusively confined to the use of trap nests, single pen and other systems that are more or ...

    Article : 216 words
  20. THE "COLONY" SYSTEM.

    An aspect of the "Colony" system that was not touched upon in the article under this heading in last week's issue of the "Notes" is emphasised in a ...

    Article : 172 words
  21. NEW YORK'S FRONT YARD.

    It was early morning on the Sound boat. Willie awoke in the upper berth and looked out the window. "Get up, daddy," he called. "Here's New ...

    Article : 120 words
  22. PROOF.

    "It has been suggested that the churches advertise. Do you think it would work?" "Sure. The Sunday after the papers mentioned our minister's name in a divorce case there was a ...

    Article : 37 words
  23. SIMPLIFIED SPELLING.

    The dentist had just moved into a place previously ocupied by a baker, when a friend called. "Pardon me a moment," said the dentist, "while I dig off those enamel letters of ...

    Article : 77 words
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