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  2. Facts for Farmers.

    An English paper is authority for the statement that if eggs intended for setting are stored with the large end down they will keep perfectly good for hatching more than a month. The reason given is that the ...

    Article : 1,041 words
  3. SCIENCE—INVENTION— CONSTRUCTION.

    THIS appliance may be used with equal facility for various purposes. It serves as a truss for scaffolding, a common ladder, pla form, and stop ladder, and, from its simple construction, may be built quite ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 557 words
  4. Simple Appliance for Raising Water.

    IN some parts of Northern Germany, the principle of the Archimedean screw is applied to the purpose of raising water in a very rough-and-ready, but still far effective manner, especially where the height to which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 424 words
  5. Tightener for Wire Fences.

    As fences made of wire are more used, it becomes all the more necessary to have a suitable method of tightening the wire. The usual manner of straining the wire in one direction only, tends to draw the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 241 words
  6. Scientific Notes.

    A new process for ornamenting metal surfaces has been recently invented in America. It consists in plating, electro-plating, or otherwise covering a plate, bar, or ingot of soft metal with a thin film of harder ...

    Article : 1,449 words
  7. IMPROVED POTATOES.

    SIR—It strikes me that the quality of our potatoes might be considerably improved, did our farmers but take the trouble necessary to furnish themselves with new seed. From the repeated employment year after year of the same ...

    Article : 265 words
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