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  2. The Farmer.

    Those in search of efficient applications for various ailments should dot overlook paraffin oil. It is extremely inexpensive, and its ...

    Article : 351 words
  3. Facts & Fancies.

    Ants, in their mode of life, and in the means they adopt to secure their social ends, undoubtedly come next to man in intelligence, and ...

    Article : 152 words
  4. Science Notes & News.

    Preventive inoculation for plant diseases is one of Science's latest discoveries. Hypodermic injections of certain germ-cultures are given ...

    Article : 1,296 words
  5. Words of Wisdom.

    The self-made man worships his maker. We find in life exactly what we put in it. ...

    Article : 209 words
  6. TO THE POINT.

    In hot weather, damp down the shady spots overnight with water. If you have neither tap nor hose, do it with a bucket, and distribute the ...

    Article : 208 words
  7. THE MUD-SKIPPER.

    One of the queerest of odd creatures is the mud-skipper or jumping fish which inhabits, the large rivers of India and the ...

    Article : 147 words
  8. WOMEN IN FINLAND.

    The Finns have been declared to be, politically, one of the most advanced nations in Europe. Women take nearly the same position as ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS.

    The Indian Runner Duck in waterfowl bears the same relation to ordinary ducks as does the leghorn hen to ordinary poultry; that ...

    Article : 237 words
  10. THE PEREGRINE FALCON.

    The peregrine falcon is the bird of prey prized by falconers. It is regarded by other birds with the greatest terror. Ducks feeding on ...

    Article : 125 words
  11. HEREROS CATTLE.

    The native cattle of the Hereros, in South-West Africa, are tall, lean, long-horned and of little value for beef or milk, but they are ...

    Article : 57 words
  12. DEPENDABLE PEOPLE.

    The world depends upon dependable persons. A reputation for being reliable is the key to most of life's successes. Friends, work, ...

    Article : 137 words
  13. CURIOUS MEDICAL RELICS.

    The Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons can boast some curious relics. They include the body of the wife of one Van ...

    Article : 154 words
  14. The Poultry Run.

    The American Bronze Turkey is largely bred in America. It thrives well in Australia, and should be extensively bred by graziers and ...

    Article : 34 words
  15. AGRICULTURE IN PALESTINE.

    Few people in the world work as hard for their daily bread as the peasants of Palestine. The same kind of implement is used for ...

    Article : 157 words
  16. BONE MEAL AND BONE DUST.

    Some confusion has arisen regarding bone meal and bone dust. Budding breeders should understand that bone meal is a good pure ...

    Article : 36 words
  17. ON A BRAZILIAN RAILWAY.

    Thirty-four miles in three hours as a run for an express train strikes one as queer, but that is the regular schedule between Sao Paulo, Brazil ...

    Article : 456 words
  18. ABOUT MEAT.

    Meat makes eggs. One reason why the scores in the laying competitions have been better of late years is that it was found out that ...

    Article : 345 words
  19. DUTCH RAILWAYS.

    The railways of Holland seem' to have a pretty hardscrabble time of it. Water competition—that of the canals and of the Rhine—has always ...

    Article : 424 words
  20. SOFT-SHELLED EGGS.

    The remedy for soft-shelled eggs is to give the hens something with which to form shells. In a wild state, the birds would pick up all ...

    Article : 81 words
  21. LARGEST PROJECTILE IN THE WORLD.

    The heaviest projectile in the world is said to be the huge five-foot armour-piercing shell fired from the United States ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 259 words
  22. ANCIENT METHODS.

    During harvest all hands are needed, for the grain ripens quickly, and men, women, and children work hard to sheave the corn and ...

    Article : 122 words
  23. A Whitewash Recipe.

    The following is the recipe used by the United States Government for making whitewash for lighthouses, etc:— "Slake in boiling ...

    Article : 118 words
  24. FEAR OF THE DEAD.

    Some Borneo tribes take strange precautions to prevent the dead from returning to the living. At the graveyard a stick cleft in the ...

    Article : 203 words
  25. EGG PULP STORAGE.

    "The advantages of egg pulp forage," says an American paper, "over ordinary cold storage of eggs are very great. The pulp is stored ...

    Article : 215 words
  26. CHINESE AND THE COMPASS.

    The Chinese used the compass at a very early period to guide them in their journeys across the vast plains of Tartary. They made little ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. THE WORLD'S WHEAT PRODUCTION.

    Thirty years ago the world's wheat production was about 2,000,000,000 bushels a year. It now averages 3,200,000,000 ...

    Article : 90 words
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