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  2. AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NOTES.

    These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on tho experience of the Department. ...

    Article : 39 words
  3. SPRAY.

    Those who disbelieve in doctors should be careful as to the alternative they propse to their friends. "Neuralgia!" cried one of the ...

    Article : 98 words
  4. AUSTRALIAN PRESS DIRECTORY.

    "Gossip," in the Sydney "Stock and Station Journal," reviews the new Australian Press Directory thus:— "There are roughly one hundred ...

    Article : 680 words
  5. MODERN SPONGE GATHERING.

    So far has advancement been made in scientific progress that, no longer content to fish from the surface of tho sea, we must descend to the depths in a ...

    Article : 355 words
  6. DIAMOND MINES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The history of the diamond mines is one long romanco—catastrophe, skilful robberies, and the speedy realisation of colossal fortunes, the annual ...

    Article : 381 words
  7. Advertising

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    Advertising : 13 words
  8. GETTING BACK AT HIM.

    Mrs. Benham: "I wonder what people will wear in heaven?" Benham: "I suppose you will want the most expensive things. the same as here ...

    Article : 49 words
  9. AGRICULTURAL.

    The best variety of potatoes for New England—what is it? The question is one for which the Department is endeavoring to find an ...

    Article : 1,374 words
  10. ONLY ONCE.

    The two hypochondriacs were exchanging confidences. "Were you ever bedridden?" inquired one. ...

    Article : 63 words
  11. SOME STATISTICS.

    "The annual rainfall in the United States runs up into the millions of barrels," said the man who had a stubby pencil in his fingers. "The number of fires and ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. POULTRY.

    Why are eggs so dear? The question is just now a very real one with housekeepers—country as well as city—and complaints are freely ...

    Article : 773 words
  13. A SUBSTITUTE FOR IRRIGATION.

    At a banquet given to visiting English chemist at New York, Dr. H. W. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington, supplied an entertaining example ...

    Article : 98 words
  14. ELECTRICALLY OPERATED MOVING TARGETS.

    Moving targets are used in Germany which are mounted on trucks and drawn along the ground by the use of electrically worked cables and drums, so as to ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. THE KING A WORKER.

    Those who have seen the King since his return to town declare that, though he looks in the best of health, he is looking much older. Even Royalty, of ...

    Article : 160 words
  16. ONE OF TILE FRATERNITY.

    A young lady was going down a dark dark street in New York (says To-Day), when a man, muffled up to the eyes, stepped out of a doorway and, demanding ...

    Article : 158 words
  17. EARLY MAIZE.

    And What Happened to It. In the hope that something would be gained by being early in the market, a number of maize-growers on the ...

    Article : 162 words
  18. BIG ANTS.

    The American truth-teller was in form. "Talking of ants," he said, "we've got 'em as big as crabs out West, I've ...

    Article : 130 words
  19. NOT THE ONE.

    A man picked up a purse in the street and advertised the fact. The same evening he was visited by sixty-one persons, all chinning to have lost money. The ...

    Article : 80 words
  20. AMERICA'S GREATEST INVENTOR.

    Mr. Thomas Edison, America's greatest inventor, celebrated his birthday by receiving reporters and di[?]ing ex-famille. Sir William Osler's theory ...

    Article : 125 words
  21. DAIRYING.

    According to the Inspector for the North Coast district, the Department's advocacy of the renovation of old and deteriorated paspalum pastures by ...

    Article : 437 words
  22. A SUBORDINATE POSITION.

    "Now," said the bridegroom to the bride when they returned from their honeymoon trip, "let us have a clear understanding before we settle down to a ...

    Article : 71 words
  23. THERE'S WALLS !

    A jerry builder wag showing a client a semi-detached house. To emphasise the substantial nature of the building he sent a bricklayer into the next house and then ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. HICCOUGH—TO CURE.

    That tiresome and noisy spasmodic contraction of that breath does not invariably choose a convenient time to declare itself, and we all know now loud and ...

    Article : 198 words
  25. HAWKESBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

    Arrangements Lave been made for the 1914 Winter School for farmers to commence at the Hawkesbury Agricultural Colleges on Tuesday, 24th June ...

    Article : 202 words
  26. WEIGHT TEST FOR HAIR.

    If your hair is coming out, pull a hair from your head and find out what weight can be hung from it without its breaking. A strong hair will sustain ...

    Article : 54 words
  27. HAD HIM.

    At a country tete a conjurer was performing the old trick of producing eggs from a pocket handkerchief, when he said to a youngster who was looking on:— ...

    Article : 83 words
  28. HE FORGOT HIMSELF.

    An elderly gentleman, who knew something of law, lived in an Irish village where no solicitor had over penetrated, and was in the habit of arranging the ...

    Article : 119 words
  29. BRIDE FINDS HER TONGUE.

    A new married couple once hit upon the idea of pretending to be deaf and dumb whilst on their honeymoon. At the station they started talking on their ...

    Article : 168 words
  30. TO KEEP BUTTER FOR A LENGTH OF TIME.

    Melt the butter in well-glazed earthen pans at a heat not exceeding 180 deg[?]anr., in a water bath, and keep it heated, skimming it from time to time until the ...

    Article : 266 words
  31. TO REMOVE A FISH BONE FROM THE THROAT.

    When a fish bone has been swallowed suck the juice of a lemon; the acid usually dissolves the mineral part, making the bone flexible; it is then easy to ...

    Article : 237 words
  32. IN THE HOUR OF NEED

    In every sensible, well-regulated Australian home, there is a bottle of Chateau Tanunda Three Star Brandy at hand, in case of need. The home may ...

    Article : 156 words
  33. "BEAR AND FORBEAR."

    An old man was giving some fatherly advice to a recently-married son as to how he should treat his young wife. "When you have any little differences ...

    Article : 174 words
  34. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The measuring of the exact quantity of an arsenic drench that should be used in treating sheep for stomach worms is one of tho things that has ...

    Article : 316 words
  35. HERD TESTING.

    The Dairy Expert, in an article that appears in the May "Gazette," draws attention to the fact that the practice of certain dairy-farmers is already ...

    Article : 273 words
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