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  2. POULTRY.

    Questions relating to fancy or commercial poultry[?] keeping, diseases, etc., should be addressed to "Ancona," "Herald" Office. Anxious.—The incubator you are using gives the best of ...

    Article : 1,085 words
  3. THE OCTOBER REVIEWS.

    Alfred H. Harrison, in the "Nineteenth Century," tells us that, though Cook or Peary may have stood upon the Pole, Atctic exploration is not at an end, and he thinks ...

    Article : 265 words
  4. IN THE GARDEN.

    As soon as the Bankslan (yellow and white), climbing polyantha, rambler, and similar roses cease to bloom they should be pruned. When these and simliar roses are pruned in ...

    Article : 282 words
  5. SCIENCE NOTES.

    In an interesting paper F. W. Henkel reminds us that up to about 350 years ago the earth was considered the fixed centre of the universe—although a few ancient philosophers ...

    Article : 337 words
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  7. THE VALUE OF MUSEUMS.

    Sir Walter Gilbey, in the "Nineteenth Century," points out the educational value of the modern museum. He contrasts such au institution with its prototype of early Victorian ...

    Article : 140 words
  8. PETUNIAS.

    From petunia seed sown in spring, both in the coastal districts and on the tablelands, there should now be some sturdy seedlings ready for transplanting to the positions where ...

    Article : 300 words
  9. EVOLUTION BY ATROPHY.

    Evlution does not proceed in a straight line. Usual while some sets of organs are being developed others are falling into disuse and gradually disappearing, in virtue of what ...

    Article : 181 words
  10. EDWARD HENRY HARRIMAN.

    One of the most striking papers in the "Fortnightly" is a study of the great American railway magnate. The most convincing thing about it is a map of the railways he ...

    Article : 167 words
  11. GAILLARDIAS.

    In gardens where liberal supplies of water are not available during the hotter months, and where it is desired to have a display of flowers during the summer and autumn, one of ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. DISAPPEARING ANIMALS.

    At Winnipeg Professor Shipley pointed out how rapidly many groups of animals are disappearing. The European beaver has almost gone, a few only finding refuge in Norway and ...

    Article : 241 words
  13. COLONIAL NAVIES.

    In the "Fortnightly" Archibald Hurd has something to say about the new colonial navies. He thinks thero is no solid ground for satisfaction, but rather that the Defence ...

    Article : 191 words
  14. NOTES.

    As soon as the foliage of anemones, hyacinths, narcissi, and ranunculi turns yellow lift the bulbs and tubers, and clean them of all extraneous matter, including the stems and ...

    Article : 261 words
  15. RONTGEN RAYS AND DISEASE.

    At first it was only possible in a radiograph to show the shadows cast by bones and solid objects. Even this helped the surgeon a great deal in diagnosis of fracture, location of ...

    Article : 242 words
  16. ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION.

    Every hatching season there comes the usual number of queries about failures in hatching by machines, the most frequent being in regard to the cause of dead in shell, and ...

    Article : 839 words
  17. A NEW SCHEME FOR IMPERIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

    Mr. P. A. Vaile discusses this topic in the "Fortnightly." He says we want just the converse of the Rhodes proposition. Instead of bringing colonial youths to Oxford, we want ...

    Article : 152 words
  18. BUSH HOUSE.

    Water should be liberally given to well-established, robust-growing, fine foliage and flowering plants and ferns, and although the less vigorous ones will not require so much, ...

    Article : 270 words
  19. WHY GERMANY BUILDS WARSHIPS.

    Dr. Hans Delbruck, who is Professor of History at Berlin, answers this enigma in the "Contemporary." The warships, he says, are built merely to protect Germany's commerce. ...

    Article : 211 words
  20. THE PEDOMETER.

    The pedometer, a device for recording the distance passed over by wheeled vehicles, is an invention of long standing. Vitruvius, one of the later Roman writers, mentions a device ...

    Article : 139 words
  21. AFFAIRS IN GREECE.

    Dr. Dillon gives some space in the "Contemporary" to the very mixed state of affairs in Greece. Whatever pranks, the Greeks may play, he says, the King must pay the piper. ...

    Article : 275 words
  22. FRUIT GARDEN.

    All newly-planted evergreen and deciduous fruit trees will be much benefited by mulching them with some half-decayed vegetable matter. The mulch should be about two inches thick ...

    Article : 329 words
  23. TRINIDAD ASPHALT.

    Trinidad asphalt came into general use about half, a century ago, and now there is an average consumption of some 150,000 tons a year. Originally the British Government ...

    Article : 293 words
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