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  4. THE FOOL AND THE WISE

    Once upon a time a fool started out on a journey. At first he was very happy and sang merrily as he skipped along, rejoicing with the ...

    Article : 418 words
  5. FARM AND FIELD.

    The Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station has issued Bulletin No. 97, entitled "Potato Experiments." The bulletin makes the following ...

    Article : 347 words
  6. THE DAIRY

    Complaints have been made from time to time about the employment of child labor in some of the dairying districts of Victoria. It appears that a similar ...

    Article : 329 words
  7. WIT AND HUMOR.

    First Prisoner: What are you here for? Second Prisoner: Fast riding. What are you here for? F.P.: Slow riding. S.P.: How that? F.P.: I ran off with a bicycle. ...

    Article : 797 words
  8. CURING THE LEMON.

    The method of curing lemons, as it is done in California, is described by Mr. W. J. Allen, a New South Wales fruit expert, who has recently visited that ...

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  9. DRAG FOR LEVELLING ROADS.

    The Illustration given herewith is taken from the Road Red Book of New York. The lower "split log drag" is made as shown by using two ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 343 words
  10. TRIFLING PRELIMINARIES.

    It was in a Texas law court an aged, gray-haired and very wrinkled old woman was summoned as a witness in court to tell what she knew ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. DUAL PURPOSE COWS.

    It is one of the questions which have never yet been finally answered (remarks Primrose M'Connell in the London "Dairy") whether a cow should be ...

    Article : 379 words
  12. Argentine's Imports and Exports.

    In reporting on the trade of Buenos Ayres, the port of the Argentine, for the year 1906, the British Consul in that city states that the exports were valued at ...

    Article : 303 words
  13. HER LITERARY LOVES.

    They had just met; conversation was somewhat fitful. Finally he decided to guide it into literary channels, where he was more at home, ...

    Article : 225 words
  14. HOME-MADE COB CHOPPER.

    The "Prairie Farmer" prints a plan of a simple and cheap cob cutter, which has been found useful to cut up corn for feeding cattle. The cutting blade ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  15. "YOUR AFFECTIONATE BUTCHER."

    A lady living in one of the beautiful valleys of the Lake District having sent an order for a joint of mutton to the butcher who usually supplied the wants of her household, received ...

    Article : 66 words
  16. Sugar Boot in Germany.

    The season 1905-1906 witnessed a material growth in the activity of the German sugar factories as compared with the previous year. The meagre beetroot ...

    Article : 138 words
  17. HIS DAY OFF.

    After years of waiting, a young lady admirer of Kipling at last met the man of the Plain Tales. "You!" she cried, starting at the author. "You, you are Rudyard ...

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  18. WHAT DOES BUTTER COST?

    How many dairy farmers in this country face the question of how much their butter costs? Do they realise that as farmers they must buy every pound of ...

    Article : 542 words
  19. HAREM ROMANCE.

    Off the Tunisian coast on the 4th of June a vessel, stated to be laden with rifles and powder for a well-known smuggler, was blown up, and the story ...

    Article : 219 words
  20. PAYING HIM OUT.

    An ironworker having had the worst of an argument with a friend, decided to get even with him. Waiting, therefore, until his enemy had retired to rest one night, he approached ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. AS IN REAL WAR.

    There was a certain man who was a peace faddist. He liked to get hold of stories that reflected upon militarism. Such stories, he declared, were ...

    Article : 140 words
  22. Relative Value of Foods.

    The real practical value of concentrated animal foods does not depend solely upon their composition, as shown by chemical analysis. It depends to a ...

    Article : 219 words
  23. PITCH AND TOSS.

    The solemn, clemure-looking little boys in the class, for a wonder, were quite interested in the lesson the good, kind teacher was giving them on the evils of gambling. Outside ...

    Article : 152 words
  24. A CHEAP HORSEWORKS.

    A worn-out mowing machine, but with good gears, makes a good power to run a wood-saw or chaffcutter. Take off the cutter bar, set the lefthand wheel flat ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 87 words
  25. FORESTS IN JAPAN.

    The latest British Consular report to the Foreign Office from Japan has something respecting trees in that country. Japanese forests have been much spoiled ...

    Article : 137 words
  26. SHE FOLLOWED HIM.

    Professor Huxley was much disturbed one night while lecturing on the brain to a popular audience, says Sir H. E. Roscoe in the story of his ...

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  27. THE NEW GRESHAM PROFESSOR OF LAW.

    Dr Blake Odgers, K.C., who delivered his inaugural lecture as Gresham Professor of Law recently, is the son of a Plymouth Unitarian minister, and when ...

    Article : 189 words
  28. Atmospheric Nitrogen.

    In a recently issued Consular report on Trade in Germany, there is evidence that the manufacture of nitrogenous compounds from the air is making more ...

    Article : 256 words
  29. FRUIT PROSPECTS.

    As far as can be judged so early in the year, the fruit season, according to "Country Life," promises to become an extremely good one. The display of ...

    Article : 122 words
  30. OFFICER KILLED BY APOTHECARY

    A duel regarding which much secrecy is maintained has been fought on the ride-range of the regiment of Fusilier Guards at Tegel, near Berlin. The ...

    Article : 160 words
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