The machine used for irrigation, so frequently erected on the banks of the Nile, must excite curiosity. It is composed of a vertical wheel, round which are fastened two parallel cords, reaching a little below the surface of a ...
Article : 224 wordsWe are indebted to the Ayrshire Agriculturist, for the following valuable information, so familiarly conveyed:—What will a ton of guano produce? The above query is a very important one, and one that has been often put. We give the result ...
Article : 916 wordsSweet is the hour that brings us home, Where all will spring to meet us—Where hands are striving, as we come, To be the first to greet us. ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Builder informs us that at a recent meeting of the Institute of Architecture in London, Professor Donaldson read a very interesting paper on "Caen, its Quarries and Buildings." The Dean of Westminster observed, at the ...
Article : 1,078 wordsThe successive Governments of France have, for many years, encouraged every invention and improvement in the production of nitrate of soda, to render them, if possible, independent of England for the necessary supply to their ...
Article : 281 wordsIf any than consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to he drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are ...
Article : 328 wordsIt is very evident, as plants and animals had not xisted at one period, decayed vegetable matter and excrementitious and uraniumas could not have supplied nourishment to primary vegetation; and from whence was that nourishment ...
Article : 533 wordsThis extensive manufactory, under Warlich's patent, shipped their first cargo of the contract with Government, recently. The works, which are now in operation, cover between three and four acres of ground on the eastern side ...
Article : 215 wordsProtect her, oh, protect her! she needs thy anxious care; If virlnons, and kind, and chaste, she is a jewel rare; Pray, love her as thyself, she's more precious than thy gold—If bought at costly price, at no price would she he sold. ...
Article : 212 wordsThe architect will, upon examination, find that his splendid arches, his strongly built pillars, are but copies, and rude ones too, of certain parts in our osseous system. The musician has only to study the arrangement of the human ...
Article : 216 wordsA correspondent of the Daily News says that he has found pieces of looking-glass suspended by a string, so as to move about easily, prove an effectual scare crow to all kinds of feathered depredators, from all kinds of ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Academy of Medicine of Turin have announced for 1849 a prize of one thousand francs on the maladies which arise from the culture of rice, and the means of preventing or curing them. The requirements are t— ...
Article : 322 wordsIn this colony, where we have no mill for grinding bones, the following method of dissolving them, and the results of their application in both forms, will be interesting, and perhaps useful, to some of our readers:— ...
Article : 1,528 wordsPause not to dream of the future before as: Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o'er us: Hark how Creation's deep musical chorus, Intermitting, goes up into Heaven! ...
Article : 326 wordsAt a recent Agricultural meeting in Ireland, one of the speakers said:—"Respecting the using of flax-water, I have had two trials of it, and found benefit by it. I had one acre of two-year-old lea, which I got flooded with ...
Article : 359 wordsAt the "Holt's Arms Inn," Birmingham, an electric telegraph has been established to supersede bell-ringing. The object is to prevent any trouble to the visitors who frequent the house in calling for refreshment, as indicated on the ...
Article : 87 wordsAccording to the best authorites, the art of printing was known in China upwards of nine hundred years ago. In the time of Confucius (B. C. 500), books were formed of slips of bamboo; and about 150 years after Christ, paper ...
Article : 172 wordsOne of those products of ingenuity and perseverance which astonish ordinary persons was exhibited at our office a few days ago, by Mr John Monro, of Paisley. This individual, who was apprenticed to his uncle as a tailor, had a taste for ...
Article : 201 wordsA new description of manure has been received in England by Messrs Keeling and Hunt, which is likely to become as important to the agricultural interest as guano. The article is called "Tremoco" or "Lupens," and it is ...
Article : 224 wordsThere is something interesting in the time and place selected for the advent of the Saviour. This earth being a globe, of course has not—that is, its surface has not—any geographical centre; but if we take a view of its moral and ...
Article : 557 wordsWe took occasion, a few weeks ago, to notice a new stone drilling machine, and that it would shortly be tested upon some of the quarries in the neigh: ourhood of Newcastle. We can now state the result of a trial made upon the quarry ...
Article : 126 wordsA model of the Tabernacle of Israel and of the surrounding country, with several of the tribes located on it, is being exhibited in London by the Rev. Mr Hartshorne. It enables the spectator to realise, as it were, the descriptions of the ...
Article : 366 wordsIt is a fact that, until the abolition of the glass duty, British glass did not compete successfully with the manufacture of other countries, whilst Bohemian fancy glass wares and articles of utility of the same material, found their way ...
Article : 482 wordsIt has been proved that if the land be trenched in wide trenches, end nettles be placed in furrows under the potatos seed, that both the quality and quantity of the potato crop is greatly improved. ...
Article : 38 wordsA London firm announces an important discovery, which has for its object the reduction of the present enormous expense of manuring land, as it will enable the farmer to produce crops from waste and other lands which have ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 21 Oct 1848, Page 4
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