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  2. FARM & FIELD

    Dairy-farmers anticipating their cows coming in early in spring should look well ahead to see that there should be plenty of succulent food to ...

    Article : 287 words
  3. Light Literature.

    A maiden of uncertain years Beside her cosy fire eat, And spoke her modest hopes and fears In confidence unto her cat. ...

    Article : 67 words
  4. War Notes from all Quarters

    No anxiety about shaving is felt by the French conscript when he joins the array, for he is encouraged by the authorities to grow a beard, and, ...

    Article : 111 words
  5. SCIENCE NOTES

    It may be a humiliating fact, but it is, nevertheless, true, that the average automobile driver cannot change gears properly. Indeed, it is safe to ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. ROBERT BURNS.

    The daisy by his ploughshare cleft, The lips of women loved and left, The griefs and joys that weave the weft Of human time, ...

    Article : 121 words
  7. BODY ARMOUR.

    It was stated during the Boer War that a sufficiently resistant plate over the heart and another over the abdomen would prevent nearly all fatal ...

    Article : 225 words
  8. SUBSTITUTES FOR GASOLINE.

    Owing to the great increase in the price of gasoline all over the world, substitutes are springing up everywhere. In England, where the cost of ...

    Article : 98 words
  9. Plunket's Story.

    Now that Plauket's Widow is dead I see no cause why I should not publish this story. I should have done so long ago but for two reasons. First, ...

    Article : 780 words
  10. STORYTELLER.

    "A mere nothing, I assure you. I was dining at a place yesterday and there was a little, fat, pompons chap at the next table holding forth to ...

    Article : 1,917 words
  11. FEED AND MILK.

    Some argue that secreting milk is a kind of habit; if this is so, then it is to our interest to encourage this habit in every possible way, and this ...

    Article : 240 words
  12. METALLIZED SKI-BLADES.

    A report comes from Davos, the famous Swiss winter resort, of a new application of the well-known Schoop process of applying metals to various ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. GREAT WARS FROM TRIVIAL CAUSES.

    Many great wars in history have resulted from trivial causes, although it was characteristic German duplicity which led to the Franco-German war of ...

    Article : 271 words
  14. HONOURS OF WAR.

    The expression "with the honours of war," which is sometimes used in connection with the surrender of troops— such as when a besieged party ...

    Article : 146 words
  15. TEAR-PRODUCING CASES.

    Recent press reports from England state that the asphyxiating and tear-producing gases used in the present war are made from sabadilla, a ...

    Article : 291 words
  16. STACK SILAGE.

    A stack of silage is built in the same way as a stack of hay. The necessary precautions to take are to guard against building the stack large in ...

    Article : 237 words
  17. GERMAN WOODEN BOOTS.

    Leather has risen enormously in price in Germany since the beginning of the war, so much so that the cost of all leather articles has more than doubled. ...

    Article : 151 words
  18. FRANCE'S FOREIGN LEGION.

    There are about 600 Americans in the Foreign Lesion of the French Army, so many of whom have petitioned to join the Flying Corps that a squadron of ...

    Article : 267 words
  19. CULTIVATION OF MAIZE.

    Maize is a crop that might with advantage receive more attention in this country than it does. It yields a bulk of wholesome fodder not surpassed by ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. WONDERS OF THE COCOANUT.

    Cocoanuts are seeds, and they germinate like other seeds, but the cocoanut has a most extraordinary provision inside for the sustenance of the young ...

    Article : 389 words
  21. Items of Interest.

    It is certain that no estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computed the force of his own genius.—Johnson. ...

    Article : 250 words
  22. WAR FORTUNES.

    "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good." The war is patting thousands of pounds every day into the pockets of some people in the world. Such is ...

    Article : 663 words
  23. SYMPTOMS OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

    Foot-and-mouth disease is characterised by the formation of postules, which burst and leave ulcers all over the tongue, lips, and all round the ...

    Article : 213 words
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