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  2. POULTRY.

    Questions relating to fancy or commercial poultry keeping should be addressed to "Ancona," "Herald" office. Visitor.—There is a duty of 2d per lb on dead poultry ...

    Article : 926 words
  3. IN THE GARDEN.

    Oriental Poppies.—These great poppies are without doubt the most gorgeous of our early summer flowers. Their blooms, from 6in to lOin in diameter, are of a brilliant scarlet ...

    Article : 1,049 words
  4. BIRD PROTECTION.

    Lord Avebury's bill, introduced into the British Parliament, to prohibit the importation of bird plumage, excepting elderdown and ostrich foathors, is attracting the attention of ...

    Article : 1,660 words
  5. SCIENCE NOTES.

    The alphabet of the present day has been traced back to the ancient hieratic writing of Egypt of about the 25th century B.C. This passed first to the Phoenicians, and from them ...

    Article : 413 words
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  7. THE MINERALS OF CEYLON.

    Coylon procious stones are found almost exclusively in alluvial detritus. Garnets and moonstones are found in situ. Ratnapura is the historic "City of Gems." The most active ...

    Article : 325 words
  8. BREEDING FOR EGGS.

    Apart from the fancy the two chief brarcl[?]s of poultry-keeping are breeding for eggs and breeding fowls for the market. In England the great bulk of the practical breeders make ...

    Article : 913 words
  9. ASSOCIATED LIVES.

    The principle of mutual help receives very little illustration in the animal world. There are, however, undoubted cases of animal partnership beneficial to both parties. Such ...

    Article : 462 words
  10. VEGETABLE GARDEN—POTATO PLANTING.

    Though very tractable, growing in almost any soil, experience has shown that to produce potatoes in perfection certain elements must be present in the soil, and ...

    Article : 640 words
  11. THE WAYS OF ELECTRICITY.

    No one can you tell us what electricity is. We understand in a more or less crude way that it represents the existence of some difference between one part of the ether and ...

    Article : 335 words
  12. SYDNEY.

    Mrs. M. Donaghue, 21 Gould-street, Sydney, N.S.W., writes:—"I have uaed Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds, and found it gave great relief. We were never ...

    Article : 81 words
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