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  2. Grave and Gay.

    Traveller: ‘Here, landlord, what's the matter with your dog? I’ve driven him away a dozen times, but he always comes back again and sits close ...

    Article : 590 words
  3. AGRICULTURE.

    The Guelph Agricultural Experiment Station, Canada, has been conducting some experiments to discover the influence of various combinations of feed ...

    Article : 465 words
  4. When Getting Old.

    In old age, when people cannot move about much, there is a tendency to various troubles in the legs and feet. For instance, there are swollen legs ...

    Article : 471 words
  5. For the Ladies.

    As my own mother used to comfort me—Kissing the tears away—Holding me close—aye, all too close ...

    Article : 94 words
  6. OUR YOUNG FOLKS.

    She wasn’t on the playground, She wasn’t on the lawn; The little one was missing, And bedtime coming on. ...

    Article : 103 words
  7. Orchard and Farm.

    A correspondent sends the following: —In feeding milking ewes, remember that both the quantity and quality is due to the fluid in the feed, or to the ...

    Article : 167 words
  8. MOTHERHOOD.

    ‘Motherhood’ is woman’s crown of glory to perpetuate God’s likeness in man. A sacred ‘Woman’s Right’ gloried ...

    Article : 49 words
  9. Health Notes,

    Sufferers from rheumatism should dress entirely in woollen clothing, and dust the inside of their clothing with flour of sulphur. They should ...

    Article : 109 words
  10. A GOOD RULE.

    “I can’t think what you can find to sing about,” said a blackbird to a thrush, who was pouring out a joyous carol from the top of an old stump. ...

    Article : 162 words
  11. SHE ALWAYS MADE HER HOME HAPPY.

    We remember once a sorrowing Husband, in speaking of his dead wife, said in pathetic tones, ‘She always made our home happy. What better ...

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  12. THE OAT CROP.

    The oat crop is a good one to Keep on the farm—too good to sell. The farmer and the farm are both benefited by feeding all the oats the farm ...

    Article : 35 words
  13. WHEN TO DO IT.

    What do you do when you have halfa-dezen things that need doing at the same time? Let some of them go unti they might as well not be done at all? ...

    Article : 68 words
  14. FUMIGATING A ROOM.

    It should always be remembered [?]at in fumigating a room by means of burning sulphur, water should be ept boiling in the room at the same ...

    Article : 47 words
  15. SOIL FERTILITY.

    The tune will arrive when the farmera of this country will be forced to look to sceince for agricultural salvation. The amount of soil fertilty an ...

    Article : 60 words
  16. COURTESY.

    By its gentle and gracious presence it preserve us from too close and too rough contact. It throws a protecting veil over sach personality which cannot be easily ...

    Article : 84 words
  17. VISITING SICK-ROOMS.

    Never enter a sick-room in a state perspiration (to remain lor any time), for when the body becomes old it is in a state likely to absorb ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. THE VALUE OF HERBS.

    The farmer's wife would do well not to neglect to follow the example of her grandmother, but to provide a good supply of herbs whose value has been ...

    Article : 85 words
  19. TOMMY, THE SEAL.

    One day when Mr. Wise was out in his feng Indian canoe fishing, he saw a baby seal on a rock not far away. He pushed his canoe over to the rock and picked up ...

    Article : 416 words
  20. IF YOU ARE NERVOUS.

    If you are nerve weary and physicaliy tired there are some things you must not do. You must not sit in a close room ...

    Article : 231 words
  21. SALT FOR SHEEP.

    The value of salt for sheep is shown by an experiment in France, where three lots of animals were fed on hay, straw, potatoes and beans for 124 days. ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. Inheriting Money.

    To inherit money is an experience which falls to the lot of comparatively few, although many a one receives a small legacy from an unexpected ...

    Article : 383 words
  23. MANURES—NATURAL AND CONCENTRATED.

    The value of animal over and above that of artificials in supplying the necessary constituents that are required to grow good crops. There is ...

    Article : 547 words
  24. HOW TO INCREASE YOUR MILK YIELD.

    The value of mangolds as a food for dairy stock has been advanced with considerable pertinacity by experts time and again, but, up to the present, ...

    Article : 357 words
  25. DID WE BUT KNOW.

    d we but know how a word unsaid Might save a heart from aching, All through the hours till the day had fled, ...

    Article : 113 words
  26. AGAINST THE SIDE SADDLE.

    A clever horsewoman is strongly of opinion that women riders should discard the side saddle and ride their horses man fashion. ...

    Article : 217 words
  27. AN IMAGINARY INVALID.

    Of course you know at least one of the kind. We refer to the woman of many ills, either imaginary or otherwise, that she insists upon ...

    Article : 312 words
  28. LINCOLN'S SCHOOLDAYS.

    Little Abe was sent to school well he was about seven years of age. His father had never received any “book learnin, as education was termed amoug such ...

    Article : 462 words
  29. TESTING A PATENT.

    A man having for a long time pestered the Duke of Wellington for an interview, he at last granted his request. ‘What have you to offer?’ he ...

    Article : 337 words
  30. WHY IS MARRIAGE LIKE A RAINBOW?

    It is a mixture of sunshine and rain. The outward and visible sign is a ring. It goes through cloud and sunshine ...

    Article : 161 words
  31. TRY YOUR THERMOMETER.

    Have you compared your dairy thermometer with a standard instrument lately to see if it is correct? Many times through some jar or other ...

    Article : 66 words
  32. HORSES ARE NOT DEAF.

    Kind words, a gentle voice and a little petting will accomplish vastly more in the management of horses than any amount of yelling. ...

    Article : 236 words
  33. DAIRY JOTS.

    Salt should be always accessible. Do not change the feed suddenly. Clean and thoroughly air the cow stalls before milking. ...

    Article : 199 words
  34. UMBRELLA LORE.

    When a man holds an umbrella over a lady’s head in such a way as to keep her hat from the rain, while a little stream trickles down his collar, it is ...

    Article : 123 words
  35. SHOULD SEATS BE SOFT?

    It is not well for sedentary workers to sit on cushions. In man, owing chiefly to his erect carriage, there is a strong development of the muscles of ...

    Article : 152 words
  36. A STORY FROM SCOTLAND.

    It was one Sunday morning in a Scotch kirk, when the door was left open during service, that a lamb who had lost its mother strayed into the ...

    Article : 169 words
  37. WHEN WOMAN ENVIES MAN.

    When he gives his hair a neat brush and his coiffure is complete. When the children cry and he can whistle a tune, get his hat, bang the ...

    Article : 132 words
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