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  2. AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NOTES.

    These Notes are issued every week, by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. PASTORAL. ...

    Article : 1,634 words
  3. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    Before narrating what happened to myself, it will be convenient to lay before the reader a statement which I received from the Rev. Father Usher. I wrote to ...

    Article : 3,536 words
  4. PEANUTS FOR PIGS.

    In some districts of America it is a common practice to plant peanuts for feeding off to pigs. With the adoption of this practice the danger of losing the ...

    Article : 428 words
  5. THE HOME.

    Tea should be kept in either a tin or glass vessel which has a lid, as it is necessary to keep it tightly covered up. Coal dust mixed with salt and water, and ...

    Article : 684 words
  6. PRESERVING ASPARAGUS BY DRYING.

    According to an extract from a report of the American Consul in Paris, the most profitable means of preserving asparagus is drying. The French ...

    Article : 176 words
  7. AGRICULTURAL.

    The advantages of wheat-grading have frequently been emphasised in these notes, suggestions being offered recently on which it was thought grain standards ...

    Article : 540 words
  8. CO-OPERATION.

    While the idea of co-operative selliug is attracting increasing attention from farmers, the advantages of co-operative buying, a much simpler proposition, are ...

    Article : 572 words
  9. How Easily Each is Given.

    It was only a sunny smile, And little it cost in the giving; But it scattered the night Like the morning light, ...

    Article : 250 words
  10. "Dicky" and the Daisy.

    Lord Alverstone, the Lord Chief Justice, who is still best known as Sir Richard (or "Dicky") Webster, and Sir Edward Clarke are great friends, but much given to giving ...

    Article : 225 words
  11. MEDIAEVAL CINEMATOGRAPHS.

    What were the earliest living pictures? There is reason to suppose that the terrible scenes by which initiates into the ancient Egyptian mysteries were ...

    Article : 210 words
  12. DWARF TREES.

    How do the Japanese produce dwarf trees? This curious modification of natural growth dates far back. We read that in 1828 Professor Meylan saw a box, ...

    Article : 197 words
  13. UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR.

    What instances are there of unconscious humour in standard books of reference? In Monro's "Homeric Grammar" the author gives a curious turn to his ...

    Article : 220 words
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