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  2. FARM AND HELD

    The problem of successful farming nowadays, and particularly the problem of small holdings, must depend for its solution on intensive culture, which ...

    Article : 288 words
  3. Light Literature.

    They do neither plight nor wed In the city of the dead, In the city where they sleep away the hours; But they lie while o'er them range ...

    Article : 201 words
  4. War Notes from all Quarters

    It was so cold and wet during May and June that many people believed the weather, or at least the rain, to be due to the abnormal gunfire of that ...

    Article : 352 words
  5. SCIENCE NOTES.

    After careful examination the State railway directors of Sweden have found peat powder efficient and practical for locomotives, with a fuel value, ...

    Article : 66 words
  6. PAPER SUBSTITUTES FOR CLOTH.

    It was announced last November by the Austrian Ministry of War that' paper vests and foot coverings had been received for the forces in the field, and ...

    Article : 157 words
  7. STORYTELLER.

    There's a tablet in the church to her, same as if she were dead. You see, she couldn't abide them other Fisherton's all except Mr. Norris— ...

    Article : 2,386 words
  8. ALL GERMAN SAILORS ARE "FRITZ."

    They call the submarine service "the Trade" in the Navy—a typical example of the way they have at sea of adopting names and words that are quite ...

    Article : 175 words
  9. ROTATION AND BACTERIA.

    That a change of crop, as in a rotation, is of advantage may be regarded as an agricultural truism, and the reason is considered to be that crop ...

    Article : 370 words
  10. BIG BATTLE BLUFFS.

    The secret evacuation of Suvla and Anzac by the English army of occupation under the very noses of the Turks —"the biggest bluff in war's history," ...

    Article : 540 words
  11. ELECTRIC RAT-KILLER.

    The soldiers in the trenches upon the battle-fronts are suffering from a pest of rats. These animals have multiplied at such a rapid rate as to render totally ...

    Article : 165 words
  12. WILES OF WAR-SHY HORSES.

    The war has shown that horses are prone to the very human weakness of malingering and shamming illness. A veterinary surgeon attached to the ...

    Article : 569 words
  13. IN MANY MOODS.

    "Look here, Miss Toantwo," said Crimsonbeak to the village school teacher, "my boy says you kissed him the other day for saying his lesson. ...

    Article : 75 words
  14. INSECT INGENUITY.

    There is no better place than a garden to study insects. The dark-coloured beetle—the oil-beetle—may be observed, and as soon as the bees come the larva ...

    Article : 237 words
  15. BASIC SLAG.

    The immense success of basic slag has been mainly due to its special power of improving a particular class of poor grass lands on clay. The soils of these ...

    Article : 159 words
  16. RECENT CONUNDRUMS.

    1. Why is flirting like plate powder? —Because it brightens the spoons. 2. Why is a dead Irishman like an ...

    Article : 87 words
  17. IS THUNDER HEARD AT SEA?

    The audability of thunder at sea a question which has so far baffled scientific inquiry, was the subject of a prolonged and interesting discussion at ...

    Article : 297 words
  18. SEPARATED MILK.

    Although separated milk is lacking in fat it contains all the constituents of whole milk in about a similar proportion. In nearly all foods the most ...

    Article : 453 words
  19. WITH THE INDIANS.

    Omaha Dame—"You have lived in the West many years, you say?" "Domestic—"Yes, madam, I crossed the plains with a family years ago ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. THE LIFE AND RELINING OF GUNS.

    The life of a gun is measured by the number of rounds fired beyond which the erosion of the bore impairs the accuracy of fire beyond possible limits. ...

    Article : 525 words
  21. MADE A STRIKE.

    "See here, Jack. You know Bill Martin, don't you? Used to travel for the High-figure Insurance Company." ...

    Article : 104 words
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