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  2. INTERESTING WAR NOTES

    Grece is mainly an agricultural country. Currants are largely cultivated. About 160,000 tons are produced annually. ...

    Article : 240 words
  3. FARM AND FIELD

    Without careful selection of the seed the plant will degenerate to a form in which the bulb is small, irregular, or forked, and the root fibre is as strong ...

    Article : 196 words
  4. Short Story

    It was a few months after I had taken over Dr. Rashleigh's practice at the small provincial town of Heather bridge, that Mrs. Rippen sent for me ...

    Article : 3,491 words
  5. SCIENCE NOTES.

    The cinema, which is playing its part in this war as a means of propaganda, is older than we think. As early as 1833 a rough form of moving picture ...

    Article : 60 words
  6. MOUNTAIN BATTLES.

    If the rugged peaks of the Alps could toll their story, there would be many a thrilling and warlike incident to relate; but none so strange as the ...

    Article : 362 words
  7. DOGFISH AS A FERTILISER.

    An article in the Canadian Fisherman reports the progress that the Canadian Government is making in its efforts to utilise the dogfish for the manufacture ...

    Article : 69 words
  8. ADVANTAGES OF THE SWEDE.

    The swede is claimed by some to be less exhausting on the soil, and has greater power to resist disease. Swedes grow more slowly than white and ...

    Article : 75 words
  9. NEW RADIUM LAND.

    Colorado, where large quantities of radium have now boon discovered, owes its prosperity to a previous discovery. Until 1858 it was practically all ...

    Article : 68 words
  10. SMOKE SCREENS FOR SHIPS.

    The accuracy of ,modern naval gunnery is so marvellous that the only hope for a ship to escape being sunk when within range of the guns it to ...

    Article : 231 words
  11. ORDER OF FEEDING TURNIPS.

    The order of consumption, when all tile varities are sown at the same time, is as follows:—The white varieties are most suitable for use in the autumn, ...

    Article : 108 words
  12. THE FIRST MATCHES.

    It was less than a century ago that one John Walker, an apothecary, of Stockton-on-Toes, found the release of the smoker from the tinder-box or the live cool in tile grate. It was an ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. CULTIVATION FOR TURNIPS.

    On good hind the winter ploughing should be deep and the spring working with the cultivator also deep, and it is most important that the tilth for ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. GUIDING LIGHTS.

    A simple plan that virtually makes ushers superfluous has been adopted in some of the theatres of Vienna. In the back of each seat is a small electric ...

    Article : 131 words
  15. TRAINING LEFT-HANDED HEROES.

    Following the example of Germany, it is proposed to start is England school whore disabled heroes of the war who have lost their right hands, ...

    Article : 257 words
  16. SPIES AT THE FRONT.

    There is no limit to tile during and effrontery of spies in France, and so necessary is it to take every precaution against them that conversation between ...

    Article : 300 words
  17. AN ITALIAN'S DISCOVERY.

    The Marseilles correspondent of the "Matin" states that an Italian engineer, who is living in Marseilles has made a marvellous discovery, by means ...

    Article : 128 words
  18. TOBACCO FOR APHIS.

    The tobacco spray is particularly adapted as a summer spray. It is extremely valuable for all kinds of aphis, including those species affecting house ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. FIGHTING MALARIAL GERMS.

    The City Council of San Antonio, Texas, has just branched out into a novel form of municipal enterprise—the establishment of a municipal bat-roost. ...

    Article : 158 words
  20. RECRUITING LONG AGO.

    In view of the taking of a National Register in the United Kingdom, it is interesting to recall how armies were raised in the old days. In 1757, for ...

    Article : 240 words
  21. FACTS ABOUT MACHINE-GUNS.

    Against machine-guns the rifleman is helpless, a military expert remarked recently; and he was right. Actual tests of machine-guns have shown them ...

    Article : 276 words
  22. PLANT DISEASES.

    From the time that the seed of a plant is placed in the soil its struggle for existence begins. Numerous hostile agencies are lurking around, always on ...

    Article : 148 words
  23. HIGH-EXPLOSIVE SHELLS.

    An effect of high-explosive shells, recently described by M. R. Arnoux before the French Society of Civil Engineers, and reported in "Nature," ...

    Article : 196 words
  24. DEPARTMENTAL EXPERIMENTS.

    The Department of Agriculture of N.S.W. has recently sown experimental plots of potatoes on the South Coast on several farms. A variety trial was ...

    Article : 200 words
  25. COTTON AND EXPLOSIVES.

    Some striking facts regarding cotton in its relationship to the manufacture of high explosives were recently given by Sir William Ramsay. In the first ...

    Article : 251 words
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