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  2. GOSSIP.

    To consume roast beef and plum pudding and to hear Handel's "Messiah" on Christmas Day are both essential articles of an Englishman's creed. Melbourne consumed beef and pudding, ...

    Article : 1,479 words
  3. A Swinging Seat for Agricultural Implements.

    A seat ia which the motion of the machine and the inequalities of the ground will be but little felt, the seat being also adjustable to suit riders of different weights, has been patented by Mr. Louis Beyer, jnn., ...

    Article : 253 words
  4. A Plant Propagator.

    Our illustration depicts a plant propagator constructed somewhat on the incubator system. The lamp heats a vessel of water, and trays of prepared soil placed above the warm water the cuttings are ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 49 words
  5. Animals and Human Ailments.

    It seems that tigers suffer from influenza just like the human species. The curiously mutter-of-fact statement in Homer that the pestilence which fell on the Greeks be- ...

    Article : 248 words
  6. Improved Tree Label.

    The device illustrated consists of a thin copper tag attached to a copper wire, which is let into a branch. The name of the variety or such other information as is desired is indented into the tag with a steel ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 162 words
  7. A Shoe-blacking Cabinet.

    Our illustrations, taken from the American Agriculturist, depict a pine cabinet, which serves as a cupboard for the brushes, and when opened out forms a rest for the foot. It is of ¼in. pine or whitewood. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 338 words
  8. A Fruit Gatherer.

    As an aid towards the careful gathering of the fruit from the orchard, we give the following illustration of a handy little instrument which has been devised for that purpose. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 214 words
  9. A Simple Home-made Corn Harvester.

    A cheap corn-cutter, to be operated by one horse, is the home-made contrivance illustrated herewith. It costs next to nothing, and does excellent work, cutting one row at a time. The drag was made from ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 134 words
  10. A Feed Box.

    We illustrate an American adaptation of a feed box for horses, known as the "National." The galvanised wire bars across and over the maize prevents a too eager horse hastily gathering up a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 188 words
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