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  2. WIT AND HUMOR

    Old Gent (meeting little boy in the street': "Well, my little man, where are you going,. for your holidays?" Little Boy:' "I am either gaun tae Govan tae see me auntie, or am ...

    Article : 867 words
  3. THE BEEKEEPER

    Dysentery is a disease, writes "Hybla" in the English "Journal of Horticulture," due almost entirely to carelessness on the part of the apiarist. It is caused by ...

    Article : 284 words
  4. FARM AND FIELD.

    Complaints are made by manufacturers in Bradford, England, that it costs the worsted trade in England L1,000,000 a year to get the vegtable ...

    Article : 306 words
  5. THE LADIES COLUMN.

    Dougn Nuts.—Required: Half a pound of flour, one ounce of castor sugar, one ounce of butter, half an ounce of compressed yeast, the yolks of two eggs, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 537 words
  6. THE VINEYARD.

    As occasion requires wines should be racked off. The young wines should be stored in clean, sound casks that have contained wine of the same type, and ...

    Article : 824 words
  7. THE DAIRY

    A well-known authority, dealing wits points In Shorthorns, says:—"In Shorthorns, width between the eyes is indication of good breeding quality in both ...

    Article : 208 words
  8. CLOSING WIRE GATES TIGHT.

    A wire gate can be closed as tight as though it were stretched by a wire stretcher in the simple manner shown in the illustration. A represents a piece of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 81 words
  9. A CHAMPION MILKER.

    Wisconsin. U.S.A., can probably boast of the champion butter-fat producing cow of the Holstein or any other variety. Colantha 4th's Johanna, bred and owned ...

    Article : 237 words
  10. PURCHASING BEES.

    This is a very good time to purchase a stock of bees. The advice of a reliable bee-keeper is required to make sure the colony is worth purchasing, ...

    Article : 320 words
  11. RIDING ATTACHMENT FOR HARROW.

    For those farmers who feel that they have walking enough to keep their health fairly good without walking behind the harrow, a correspondent of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 265 words
  12. Strangles in Horses.

    The French Government has spent about L20,000 in demonstrating the value of a now serum for "strangles" In horses. The Pasteur Institute, the ...

    Article : 227 words
  13. IMPURE SALT IN BUTTER.

    In the annual report of the Mecklemberg-Schwerin Experiment Station in Germany, writes the "New York Produce Review," an account is given of a ...

    Article : 527 words
  14. Preparation of Wool for Market.

    The British Wool Buyers' Association has issued the following suggestions to wool growers on the preparation of wools for the market. ...

    Article : 280 words
  15. THE POULTRY YARD.

    The complaint known as liver disease is rather common amongst poultry kept in close confinement and fed irregularly. Birds shown week after week at ...

    Article : 567 words
  16. A GOOD SELECTION.

    Little Tommy Whacken was taken by his mother to choose a pair of knickerbockers and his choice fell on a pair on which a card was attached, stating, "These can't be ...

    Article : 35 words
  17. EXPLAINED.

    Two cronies were discussing the death of a third, who was a younger man and the one said to the other by way of explanation: "Do you know, William, I always thought James ...

    Article : 41 words
  18. A DESIRABLE CHANGE.

    A lady told Lord Palmerston that her maid, who had been, with her to the Isle of Wight, objected to go there again because the climate was not embracing enough. "What am I to ...

    Article : 59 words
  19. MUST DRAW THE LINE.

    A member of Parliament has been badgered to the turning-point for subscriptions to this that, and the other, and at last he has begun" to answer the beggars savagely. "Dear sir," ...

    Article : 50 words
  20. SPARROW-PROOF BARNS.

    To prevent sparrows from building nests in the housing in a barn door, causing much trouble, use the design illustrated in the accompanying sketch, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 113 words
  21. UNSATISFACTORY EVIDENCE.

    An Irish witness was being examined as to his knowledge of a shooting affair. "Did you see the shot fired?" asked the judge. "No, sorr, I only heard it," was the evasive ...

    Article : 128 words
  22. FRENCH GREEN GAGES.

    To give the exact quantities of the various kinds of French plums which arrived at the Covent Garden market during the second week in August ...

    Article : 301 words
  23. USEFUL HINTS.

    To keep tinware bright, wash It inside and out with hot water and soda. Dry with clean cloths, and scour with equal parts of fine sand and whiting, mixed ...

    Article : 369 words
  24. Potash and Potato Blight.

    The necessity of a liberal supply of available potash to a potato crop is well known. When large quantities of farm yard manure are given, it is not ...

    Article : 391 words
  25. RATS IN HAMLET'S COUNTRY.

    Rats must be a great nuisance in Denmark, for the British Consul at Copenhagen reports that a law relating to their extermination has been passed, and ...

    Article : 166 words
  26. JAPANESE VIEWS OF HOLIDAYS

    The tyranny of fashion nowadays compels those who can afford, and often those who can ill afford, to be at this or that summer resort for a part at least ...

    Article : 181 words
  27. A LONDON HOSPITAL SCENE.

    A glimpse of the consulting room of a throat and ear surgeon in one of the great London hospitals is like one of H. G. Wells's visions of the future. The ...

    Article : 112 words
  28. GESTICULATION'S SUBTLE AID.

    Why should not we teach our children to gesticulate? Our speech is flat, coarse, heavy. A little gesture—only the rudiments of the subtle art which is ...

    Article : 70 words
  29. HE CAME LAST.

    In n northern town a gravedigger was walking along the street when he happend to look round, and, noticing two local doctors at bin back, be stopped, no as to allow them ...

    Article : 69 words
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