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  2. THE POULTRY RUN.

    There are several important advantages in giving fowls their freedom. In the first place, there can be no doubt that poultry with unlimited space over ...

    Article : 289 words
  3. CONJURERS' SECRETS REVEALED

    The strides made in science within the last score of years, recently remarked Mr. Howard Thurston, an American conjurer, to a ...

    Article : 972 words
  4. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    An interesting method of protecting peach trees from frost during the winter has been practised for several years at the Agricultural Experiment Station ...

    Article : 944 words
  5. YOUR EYES ARE LIKE A JAP'S.

    We call the Japanese "almond-eyed" and the Chinese "slit-eyed," and most of us are apt to suppose that their eyes are of entirely different ...

    Article : 439 words
  6. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS

    An explanation of the improvement of European agriculture in recent years has been sought, and in Germany it is attributed to soil stimulation from ...

    Article : 97 words
  7. FIGHTING SUMMER PESTS.

    Flies are the king of midsummer pests and their contemptible majesties may rule or ruin our health and comfort. ...

    Article : 525 words
  8. AMERICAN HUMOUR.

    Doubtful.—"Is the man your sister is goin' to marry rich?" "Naw, every time the marriage is mentioned pa says: Poor man!"' ...

    Article : 825 words
  9. ASPARAGUS ANALYSED.

    Asparagus belongs to the family of plants—Liliaceoe—that includes onions leeks, and garlic. Each, of those vegetables contain a small quantity of ...

    Article : 89 words
  10. SIGNALLING BY MIRRORS.

    A novel signalling system is being tried on German railways. Parabolic mirrors about eight and a half feet long are fixed on an axle, on which ...

    Article : 85 words
  11. THE TIMES OF FEEDING.

    I believe that many people are under the impression that in order to be successfully with poultry one must get up at an unearthly hour to attend to their ...

    Article : 306 words
  12. A NEW PRINTING INK.

    As the carbon of ordinary printing inks does not bleach in using printed materials for new paper, a French firm has patented a special ink. The ...

    Article : 87 words
  13. EFFECT OF HUMIDITY.

    In hot weather less food is needed; there is more blood in the internal organs, the skin sets more, and the kidneys act lees, than in mild weather. ...

    Article : 297 words
  14. TELESCOPING GARDEN SEAT.

    The middle section, forming the chair, has a seat and back composed of tubing into which the two side extensions telescope, being slightly ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 44 words
  15. WHAT THE MAID KNEW.

    For a long while the young man sat waiting in the drawing-room, anxious and impatient, restlessly crossing and recrossing left leg over right, and ...

    Article : 156 words
  16. THE VALUE OF FRESH AIR.

    Most of the more modern houses, hutches, and coops relieve the poultry-keeper of much of his respons[?] in the matter of ventilation, [?] ...

    Article : 214 words
  17. REMARKABLE FAMILY HISTORY.

    One of the most remarkable family histories on record is contained in a letter received by the United States Commissioner of Pensions, who has ...

    Article : 121 words
  18. Advertising

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    Advertising : 172 words
  19. IF "NAP" HAD SKATED ON—!

    On January 5, 1791, a party of five officers of the garrison at Auzonne went to skate on the moats of the town, which at that time were very ...

    Article : 102 words
  20. THE LATEST PHOTOGRAPHIC MARVEL.

    X-Ray photographs can now be taken at a single "flash" by means of an improved apparatus, which embodies all the most recent advances in ...

    Article : 203 words
  21. CLEANLINESS AMONG CHICKENS.

    Cleanliness in all things appertaining to chickens is of the greatest importance, and unless this is attended to, it is small wonder if they suffer a serious ...

    Article : 171 words
  22. APPEARANCES DECEIVE.

    A man lay groaning and writhing by the roadside, when up dashed a constable, but all he could get out of the sufferer was this:— ...

    Article : 128 words
  23. WHY[?] CERTAINLY!

    A celebrated physician was giving a lecture on physiology in the course of which he said that the human body contained sulphur. A young lady ...

    Article : 68 words
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