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  2. Orchard and Farm.

    When steam cultivation was introduced there were those sufficiently sanguine to predict the ultimate extinction of the farm horse in the same way ...

    Article : 461 words
  3. A Noble Purpose.

    There are many joys in life, but few that are so pure, so intense, and so satisfying as the joy of a noble purpose. It is a strange thing that men and ...

    Article : 185 words
  4. The Ladies' Column.

    Young people who are engaged to be married generally manage to concealuntil after the knot is tied the various little traits that might prejudice one or ...

    Article : 248 words
  5. The Lily of Mordaunt.

    Miss McAllister was not gone many minutes. The door soon opened again, and she entered, followed by a servant bearing ...

    Article : 5,029 words
  6. SUCCESSFUL FARMING.

    In these days of scientific farming, only the wide-awake man can hope to succeed. The man who would succeed at ...

    Article : 137 words
  7. Beware of Misjudging.

    Perhaps it were bettor for most of us to complain less of being misunderstood and to take care that wo do not misunderstand other people. It ought ...

    Article : 198 words
  8. FEEDING DAIRY COWS.

    Some dairy farmers feed their cows on the supposition that the less feed consumed the greater the profit. It should ever be borne in mind that it ...

    Article : 116 words
  9. EARLY CHILDHOOD.

    In a letter on "The Care of Children," Mrs. Alice Johnson, of Boos, Ill., says : "If in childhood there is a tendency, either hereditary or acquired, ...

    Article : 108 words
  10. TACK UP IN THE STABLE.

    Never allow anyone to tickle or tease your horse in the stable. The animal only feels the torment, and does not understand the joke. ...

    Article : 199 words
  11. No Compulsion.

    The man was sitting on the front steps of his house at three o'clock in the morning as the policeman came by and noticed him. ...

    Article : 297 words
  12. OLD AND CHARMING.

    The young girl who, on being asked what she would like to become, replied, "A beautiful old lady," was by no means rash in choosing. A lovely old ...

    Article : 271 words
  13. AGRICULTURE IN FRANCE.

    Speaking agriculturally, the area of France is 132 million acres, of which just about 4½ per cent. are non-agricultural, but of the agricultural land so ...

    Article : 335 words
  14. THE BEST SEASON FOR MANURE.

    must be thoroughly incorporated with To produce the best effect, manure the soil, and not left in lumps on the surface, nor half buried in lumps ...

    Article : 179 words
  15. FARMER SUMMONS ON WOMAN'S CAREER.

    "Gee whillikens!" shouted Farmer Simmons when his pretty daughter Dorothy asked to go to the art school in Chicago for the summer and hinted ...

    Article : 367 words
  16. STRAWBERRIES ON TREES.

    At last M. Baltet, the great French specialist, has been enabled to grow strawberries on plants of a decidedly tree-like nature. The method is ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. Teaching Etiquette.

    "Madam," he began, as the door opened, "I am selling a new book on Etiquette and Deportment." "Oh, you are," she responded. "Go ...

    Article : 324 words
  18. Where Money is Not Used

    Away on the Wiltshire Downs, overlooking Salisbury Plain, is the little hamlet of Winterslow. Its inhabitants are few, its situation exposed, its soil ...

    Article : 442 words
  19. THE CARROT AS A FARM CROP.

    The carrot can be grown upon any good mellow loamy soil, but requires liberal feeding, and its cultivation should not he attempted in a soil that ...

    Article : 184 words
  20. Whera's Your Dead Spots

    Most people have doubted their eyes when at some conjuring performance they have seen a man run needles and pins through both cheeks, evincing no ...

    Article : 237 words
  21. CARE OF THE SKIN.

    Cosmetics, the best of them, are of doubtful utility ; and where powder is necessary, it should always be washed off at night, as it clogs the pores of the ...

    Article : 219 words
  22. PRESERVING FENCING POSTS.

    The preservative properties of lime as a preventive of decay in wood are well known. Timber embedded in mortar has been found in a perfectly sound ...

    Article : 226 words
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