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  2. Select Timber Plants

    ONE of the chief practical uses to which the enumeration of industrial plants can be applied is the assistance it affords to colonists, either travelling or having correspondents in distant climep, the means of ...

    Article : 1,699 words
  3. The Reaper and Binder Competition in Victoria.

    THE, competition for the Government premium of £1000, offered for a machine that will reap and bind grain, took place according to appointment on Friday week, on the farm of Mr. Thompson, Prospect, within about a ...

    Article : 1,235 words
  4. SCIENCE—INVENTION— CONSTRUCTION.

    THE annexed engravings represent a new waggon brake patented through the Scientific American Patent Agenoy, April 25, 1876, by Mr. J. W. O'Daniel, of Cloverdale, Ind. The novel features are found in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 261 words
  5. Charcoal Instead of Lime for Tanning.

    THE Panama Star reports what it calla a very important discovery that charcoal, animal or vegetable, is a better agent than lime for the removal of hair from hides, preparatory to tanning. An exchange assures us ...

    Article : 932 words
  6. Mineral Manures for Potato Blight.

    JUST now, when chemical fertilisers are creating so mach attention, it is of interest to note that Mr. Charles T. Hayward, of England, as we learn from the Journal of Horticulture, has apparently succeeded in preventing ...

    Article : 707 words
  7. A Non-Heeling Boat.

    THE accompanying engraving illustrates a very curious boat, exhibited at the Centennial. Its construction will be understood at a glance. The hull is hung on pivots in a heavy frame, which constitutes stern post, stem ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 88 words
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