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  2. THE CULTIVATOR.

    A LECTURE DELIVERED ON THE 15TH MAY, 1875, BEFORE THE BALLARAT FARSIERS' CLUB, BY BARON FBED. VON MUELLER, C.M.G., M. AND PH.D., F.R.S. HAD announced my intention to address you at ...

    Article : 2,950 words
  3. Machinery for Lowering Miners in Shafts.

    THE apparatus in use in some of the Belgian coal Minos, and also in the principal copper and tin mines in Cornwall, for lowering and elevating the miners to and from work is very ingenious, and of especial ...

    Article : 232 words
  4. An Ancient Metric System.

    THE library of Asshurbanipal, King of Assyria, found during Mr. Layard's excavations at Ninovoh, shows that science had made no little progress in Asia twenty-five hundred years ago. This curious library ...

    Article : 978 words
  5. OSAGE ORANGE HEDGES.

    SI,—In looking through your valuable columns, I noticed a paragraph relative to farm fences No. 2. I would just draw the writer's attention to a few remarks respecting hedge work. Some five years ago I noticed a neighbour of mine planting ...

    Article : 263 words
  6. To the Editor.

    SIR,—Some years ago I read in "Reynold's Miscellany" an account of how to make a cheap weather-glass. Got a clean pint ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 165 words
  7. Tussock Grass.

    MR. JODBERT, Secretary of the Agricultural Society, informs us that he has received from Adelaide a case of tussock grass plants, for distribution among the members of the Society. The qualities of this grass are ...

    Article : 552 words
  8. SCIENCE—INVENTION— CONSTRUCTION.

    THE ruddy Mars, which, in previous years, we have regarded least amongst the members of our Solar system, assumes this year a magnitude and brilliance greater than it has for several years ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 775 words
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