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  2. BACON PIGS.

    The following are extracts from an address on desirable characteristics in the bacon pig given by an English expert:— ...

    Article : 371 words
  3. "HOME, SWEET HOME."

    If you should ever chance to visit the village of Long Hampton, Long Island, U.S.A., you will be shown a quaint old cottage, quite humble, quite ...

    Article : 546 words
  4. THE DREADED "DEATH RACE."

    The bitter and unrelenting feuds between the early trappers and the savage North American Indians produced many thrilling tales of hair-breadth ...

    Article : 1,450 words
  5. SPRING-TIME AILMENTS.

    Spring brings with it complaints and troubles as well as many delights. One of the chief causes for the ailments that are so common with the ...

    Article : 362 words
  6. NOW IS THE TIME FOR CAULIFLOWERS.

    Clean and soak a cauliflower in salted water. Then plunge it into boiling water, returning it again to cold water. After this put it in a pan of ...

    Article : 238 words
  7. THE WAY A MAN PROPOSES

    If you venture to mention romance in the hearing of elderly people in this year of grace, they will shake their grizzled heads, and, in nine cases out ...

    Article : 916 words
  8. SOAKING SEEDS IN WATER PREVIOUS TO SOWING.

    A dairy farmer who intends cultivating a small area of lucerne for the benefit of his milking herd, asks the question: "Do you believe in soaking ...

    Article : 307 words
  9. HOW TO KILL THOSE GERMS.

    Men and women who gargle night and morning do not do it out of fussiness; they do it because some enlightened person has opened their eyes to ...

    Article : 203 words
  10. GREEN MANURING.

    Green manuring is specially valuable as a means of improving conditions for the life of the nitrifying bacteria, by aeration in heavy soils, and by ...

    Article : 299 words
  11. POINTS FOR THE SHEEPMAN.

    Whether he is producing fine, medium, or strong wool, it should be the aim of the breeder to see that it has pronounced quality for its type, points ...

    Article : 237 words
  12. PETROLEUM AND PETROL.

    You know what petrol looks like—a very clear, thin, "lively" fluid. But when it first comes from the oil-well it is exactly like thick, dirty treacle. ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. A LITTLE-KNOWN MUSEUM.

    One of the most interesting exhibitions in Paris, and yet one of the most neglected, is the Musee du Conservatoire Nationale de Musique. Open ...

    Article : 120 words
  14. CHINESE COLUMBUS!

    The question of who really discovered America is still troubling antiquarians in Canada. Archaeologists are almost sure that the Chinese were ...

    Article : 118 words
  15. AMMONIA.

    The odor of the stable is quite a familiar one to the majority of us. This odor is of ammonia, and is produced by the fermentation of the vegetable ...

    Article : 168 words
  16. Breaking It Gently.

    His wife was away on holiday and had left him at home. She received a letter including:- "You know how you are always ...

    Article : 59 words
  17. REVISED WISDOM.

    The Wages of Gin is Debt. You may lead an ass to knowledge—but you cannot make him think. Imagination makes cowards of us all. ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. A Safer Method.

    "And if the bull threatens to attack you," said the farmer to the rambler asking his way, "just move your arms up and down rapidly. That'll stop ...

    Article : 82 words
  19. AN AWKWARD SECRET.

    Men with dangerous secrets must find it difficult sometimes to sleep at night. I know such a man (said a solicitor). At thirty-five he was ...

    Article : 217 words
  20. Memory's Casket.

    To Biffin was delegated the honor of presenting the vacuum cleaner purchased by the staff as a token of their esteem for Miss Dimple, the typist, ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. Disclosing the Secret.

    "Miss Ethel is a long time coming down," said the youth to the servant, after waiting some time for the young lady's appearance. ...

    Article : 119 words
  22. Suited.

    The owner of a travelling zoo and aquarium was questioning a man who had applied for a job. "What do you know," asked he, ...

    Article : 76 words
  23. The Wrong Breed.

    The haughty lady of riches went up to the proprietor of the hotel where she was staying. He was a foreigner from Alsatia. ...

    Article : 65 words
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