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  2. THE LAND.

    The day will come, in probably the near future, when there will be a light for supremacy in the butter and cheese markets of Brain, and the country ...

    Article : 574 words
  3. AN OHIO FARMER ON POTATO GROWING

    In a recent issue of the "American Agriculturalist" there is an article on potato-growing by one of the best potato exports in the State of Ohio. The ...

    Article : 353 words
  4. WINTER FEED FOR SHEEP.

    In those northern districts of Victoria which are being slowly. brought under irrigation, cultivators are discussing the various grass and fodder crops, and ...

    Article : 484 words
  5. AM[?]D EAST GREENLAND'S ESQUIMAUX.

    Dr. W. Thalbitzer and his wife have just returned to Copenhagen from a 15 months' visit to the coast of East Greenland. The doctor went there as a ...

    Article : 928 words
  6. SCIENCE NOTES.

    Electric sleep, or anaesthesia, is produced by the action on the brain of intermittent electric currents of low voltage. It has been a subject of special ...

    Article : 98 words
  7. COMMERCIAL FERTILISERS FOR SANDY SOIL.

    Commercial fertiliser usually gives better results on soil that, contains a good proportion cf humus or vegetable matter than they do on soils that have ...

    Article : 280 words
  8. PAINLESS SURGERY BY ELECTRICITY.

    Electric sleep makes possible the painless electrocution of animals, an increase of voltage causing the loss of will and sensation, to be followed by cessation of ...

    Article : 130 words
  9. THE COMING TORPEDO.

    Mr. Hudson Maxim, of New York, announces, as the result of experiments just concluded that he is engaged in building a torpedo which will ...

    Article : 132 words
  10. ANGORA GOATS AND MOHAIR.

    With regard to the rapid advance to the front now being made by the Augora goat, and the improving demand for mohair, the latest report of the ...

    Article : 416 words
  11. BEST VARIETIES OF WHEAT.

    There was a time when the "accepted motto of the farmers was that "an egg's an egg," when, in other words, meant that so long as a hen laid an egg it ...

    Article : 470 words
  12. THE MARRAM GRASS.

    An announcement of a considerable sum of money on the estimates of the Portland shire council for marram grass planting supplies a reminder, of the debt ...

    Article : 304 words
  13. STOCKS OF WHEAT.

    The Government Statist (Mr. E. T. Drake) has posted 35,000 cards to the farmers in the wheat, and oat-growing districts, with a request that they will ...

    Article : 216 words
  14. IN THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRE.

    After the great fire in San Francisco, hundreds of tons of lead and zinc and other metals were found "fused into a solid mass, four or five feet thick, ...

    Article : 174 words
  15. THE TEMPERATURE OF THE MOON.

    Mr. F. W. Very discusses Mr. Coblentz's recently-published conclusion: that, from an investigation, dealing with the reflection of heat radiations from ...

    Article : 140 words
  16. MATRIMONY MADE EASY

    All shy bachelors take heart of courage! There is an easy way for you to propose, and you need no longer be single because of that ordeal. You have ...

    Article : 282 words
  17. THE SHEEP FLY.

    The trouble from this pest is again in evidence this season. Prior to 1904 it was little known in Australia, but since then it has been prolific, and has ...

    Article : 363 words
  18. "RAFFLES" IN REAL LIFE.

    The police in Paris have arrested a Parisian "Raffles," but, curiously enough, he is a Raflies" who knows no French. ...

    Article : 194 words
  19. THE FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY.

    Advantage should be taken of the fine weather to finish the digging. and trimming up of the flower-beds and shrubbery borders. There is no better time ...

    Article : 309 words
  20. PLAIN DIRECTIONS CALFREARING.

    Much has been said and written on this subject, but the most practical set of rules we have met with are embodied in a leafiet drawn up by a successful ...

    Article : 643 words
  21. A NEW VOLCANIC ISLAND.

    Some weeks after the Californian earthquake the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross, passing the Bogoslof group, found a third island ...

    Article : 201 words
  22. Advertising

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  23. CANCER TREATMENT.

    The official organ of the Hungarian Medical Board publishes a sensational report of new, and, so far. successful trcatlnent of cancer. Dr. Franz Hauer, ...

    Article : 236 words
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