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  3. THE LAND. AND WHAT IS DONE WITH IT.

    Upon the value of straw chaff Dr. Voelceker, chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society. (England), stated that fermented straw chaff is one-fourth richer in albuminoids, ...

    Article : 706 words
  4. NOTES FROM MANY SOURCES. WORD CHIPPING.

    Mr. G. K. Chesterton is right in finding vulgarity and offence "under the cirs." and "for self and friend." and "a dead cert." These are tricks to ...

    Article : 255 words
  5. VALUE OF LUCERNE.

    At a conference of the American dairy institutes, held during the National Dairy Show, Chicago, in November last, one of the resolutions come to was upon the value of ...

    Article : 260 words
  6. CURE FOR CALF SCOURS.

    Calves at the University of Winconsin farm are specially treated for calf scours. First. special care is taken to avoid scours by keeping the calves in clean, bright well ...

    Article : 257 words
  7. GRACE BEFORE MILKING?

    A test formerly decisive as to the status of breakfast was the saying or omission of grace before it. In Scotland they said it: in England grace was ...

    Article : 164 words
  8. CARMARTHEN'S CURIOUS FIRES.

    If Carmarthen retains an important staple industry of a century ago, the coming coal strike will hurt the county less than any other. What most ...

    Article : 146 words
  9. THE ORCHARD.

    The benefits accruing from growing a cover crop for green manure are everywhere recognised. The crop should be planted as soon as possible after the early autumn rains ...

    Article : 748 words
  10. BLACK SPOT AND BROWN ROT.

    The following report, furnished by Mr. W. J. Allen, N.S.W. Government fruit expert. regarding the diseases known to fruitgrowers as "black spot" and "brown rot." has been ...

    Article : 488 words
  11. PEEPHOLE IN A BLIND EYE.

    All experiment, resulting in the partial restoration of a blind eye, has been reported to the French Academy of Science by Professor Dastre, on behalf ...

    Article : 318 words
  12. ARGUMENT BY LIGHT FLASHES.

    A very unusual electric sign is being used by the committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity Organisation of the City of New York. ...

    Article : 220 words
  13. THE NO BREAKFAST CENTURY

    In the sixteenth century it was considered a sign of effeminacy to eat breakfast. Says Harrison in his "Descriptions of Britain," published in ...

    Article : 145 words
  14. CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING.

    Shopkeepers in the United States must be very dishonest. In many towns Housewives' Protective Associations and Consumers' Equity Leagues ...

    Article : 301 words
  15. CHINA AND MONGOLIA

    have stood in almost every possible relation to each other in the long course of history. In the 14th century a Mongolian dynasty reigned over China. ...

    Article : 143 words
  16. FERMENTATION IN WINE-MAKING.

    The N.S.W. Department of Agriculture has issued a Farmers Bulletin, under the title of "Vinification," by the Government Viticultural Expert, which gives some valuable ...

    Article : 141 words
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  18. WASHING EGGS.

    There used to be a sort of superstition regarding the washing of eggs that were to be incubated, and I hare known people to actually scrape dirt off eggs to be set rather ...

    Article : 215 words
  19. HOW HUMAN TISSUES GROW IN LABORATORIES.

    Abolition of death and continuance of unimpaired mental vigor are promised by Dr. Leonard Keene Hirshberg, of Baltimore. as a sequence to recent ...

    Article : 278 words
  20. ARSENIC FOR INSECTS.

    In America compounds of arsenic are considered to form the most effective means of destroying insects that play havoc among fruit trees and vines. It has been asked ...

    Article : 147 words
  21. SHOULD ONE EAT IN SILENCE?

    "Is it better to eat. alone of in company?" asks Mr. C. Louis Leipoldt. F.R.C.S., in his book "Commonsense Dietetics." "A few savage races ...

    Article : 525 words
  22. VEGETABLE GARDEN

    Celery crops will now be a prominent feature in the vegetable section. The seed may be sown from January to March, and succession plantings should be carried out ...

    Article : 120 words
  23. FIELD PEAS AS FODDER.

    That field peas will grow well even on poor land, and that they are an excellent milk-producing fodder, have been demonstrated by Mr. Alf. Swan, of Dapto, N.S.W., ...

    Article : 139 words
  24. AIRSHIPS WILL FLY 10 MILES UP.

    Some astonishing discoveries concerning the upper atmosphere have recently been made by means of sounding Walloons. These have proved that at a ...

    Article : 369 words
  25. COW GIVES 661b. MILK IN THE MORNING.

    The "Live Stock Journal" (Eng.) refers at some length to the milking Shorthorn cows at the London Dairy Show in October. The first prize cow (Darlington Crawford shown ...

    Article : 162 words
  26. FLOWER GARDEN

    Ample waterings and sprayings. with subsequent cultivation, will be helpful in hot. dry or windy weather. Weak plants, herbaceous plants. and surface rooting plants ...

    Article : 184 words
  27. SHEEP AND FALLOWING.

    While fallowing and fertilising Lave their place in profitable crop production, something more is required if good yields are to be permanent In parts of the country ...

    Article : 440 words
  28. SUBMARINE SCRAPS THE TORPEDO.

    For torpedo attack the submarine has enormous advantages over the torpedoboat. provided she can locate her enemy without herself being seen. That ...

    Article : 293 words
  29. IMPORTED POTATO SEED.

    Dr. Wilson, of St. Andrew's university, Scotland, when in Tasmania with the Scottish Commission, promised the Director of Agriculture to send him some seed potatoes ...

    Article : 329 words
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