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  2. THE POULTRY RUN.

    As most of those engaged in the poultry industry solely as a means of livelihood devote their attention entirely to egg production, it follows ...

    Article : 154 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Mr. B.: "My dear, your butcher gives you short weight for your money." Mrs. B.: "But consider also, my dear, the long wait you give ...

    Article : 751 words
  4. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

    Surgery is known to have existed B.C. 219. In Zurich, Switzerland, street cars are run by liquid air. ...

    Article : 892 words
  5. FOR YOUNG FOLKS

    If you take the four figures 3025, 9801, or 2025, you can got a result that no other combination of four figures will give. Divides each group ...

    Article : 101 words
  6. RANDOM READINGS.

    The famous Swiss watch schools are said to be the most exacting industrial institutions in the world. In one of the most celebrated of these ...

    Article : 288 words
  7. DISCIPLINE AMONG ANIMALS.

    That there is a kind of military discipline among animals has been shown by careful observation. Wild horses seem to obey their leaders ...

    Article : 430 words
  8. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS

    Dr. Richard Scroesby, in a succession of very careful investigations upon the mid-Atlantic in tremendously rough weather, during part of ...

    Article : 88 words
  9. WHEN JEWELS WERE EATEN.

    Stones of healing, as they used to be called, may not have been quite such "fakes" as sceptical moderns think. At least, an "unsceptical" ...

    Article : 319 words
  10. A HISTORICAL FACT.

    The Inspector was examining Standard IV. upon history, and all the children had been specially told by their master not to answer unless ...

    Article : 118 words
  11. CORDITE.

    Cordite is much more powerful than guncotton, and is composed of nitro-glycerine, gun-cotton, and vaseline, which are dissolved by so many ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. CLOCK REGULATES FEEDING DEVICE FOR POULTRY.

    Operating by means or an alarm clock, a mechanical poultry feeder which provides grain for a brood of chickens at any hour which may ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 139 words
  13. THE KING'S SPECTACLES.

    Once upon a time there lived a King who was perfectly happy. And this was the reason; he was so short-sighted that everything looked ...

    Article : 668 words
  14. SOLUTION OP GLASS IN WATER.

    Research shows that, given a sufficiently high temperature, all glass is soluble in water. Thus, under a certain pressure it dissolves at a ...

    Article : 132 words
  15. A GENTLE GIANT.

    There was an elephant named Pizarro, a great favourite with the people of Madrid. He was an enormous animal, but ...

    Article : 531 words
  16. ABOUT COLOUR-BLINDNESSS.

    A colour-blind person sees light as either white or grey, and dark colours appear either as dark grey of black. This mutual sensitiveness is ...

    Article : 309 words
  17. FEATHER EATING.

    This vice is usually noted about moulting time, and mostly among birds which are confined. It, no doubt, is set up by some physical ...

    Article : 243 words
  18. TO COLOUR OR PAPER WALLS.

    If a ceiling or wall is to be whitewashed or coloured, the first thing to be done it to wash off the dirt and stains with a brush and clean ...

    Article : 375 words
  19. MURDER WILL OUT.

    Once upon a time there was a lady who wished to have her real age kept a secret. In order to be successful she instructed her son, in case ...

    Article : 222 words
  20. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    In fattening poultry it is best to have the birds out of sight of other fowls. If you can manage it, it is also better to have them out of sound ...

    Article : 309 words
  21. HIS OTHER DOGS.

    A young constable, walking his beat one day, met a man who had a bulldog with him. Going up to him, the constable ...

    Article : 160 words
  22. MINDING CYCLES.

    The almost limitless methods of the poor to earn an honest penny are often interesting. A veteran in Paris seems to have struck out a line for ...

    Article : 157 words
  23. ANCESTOR OF THE DOG.

    The origin of the domestic dog has been a much discussed scientific problem. As a writer in the "Field" points out it was sugge[?]ed ...

    Article : 274 words
  24. A PAYING GAME.

    Scene: A suburban street, in almost complete darkness. Tommy is standing crying on the kerb, and Willie is trying to scrape up some ...

    Article : 122 words
  25. TOO MUCH OF AN EFFORT.

    A charming English girl she was, but she could not see the point of a joke. Her class mates at college, jolly, fun-loving girls, regretted this ...

    Article : 214 words
  26. HODGE'S OBSERVATION.

    The celrgyman of a country village, reprehending one of his parshioners for quarrelling with his wife so loudly and so frequently as ...

    Article : 85 words
  27. DUCKS AS MOSQUITO CATCHERS.

    At one time bats were considered to be a valuable means of destroying mosquitoes; but, according to recent experiments, the most formidable ...

    Article : 117 words
  28. ITALY.

    Salt in a Government monopoly in Italy In Italy education is free and compulsory. ...

    Article : 102 words
  29. HIS PLAN WENT WRONG.

    A noted miser, who felt obliged to make a present to a lady, entered a crockery shop for the purpose of making a purchase. ...

    Article : 131 words
  30. IN LUCK FOR ONCE.

    Two business men meeting in the City, one of them said: "I hear Wilkins is quarantined at home." ...

    Article : 62 words
  31. VEGETABLE LEATHER.

    A plant grows in Japan which furnishes a sort of vegetable leather. It is a pretty shrub called the "mitsumata," and its inner bark, after ...

    Article : 58 words
  32. TOO LATE.

    "Well, Johnny, I hear you are going to School now. How do you like it?" "I don't like it at all. I wish ...

    Article : 38 words
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