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  2. GENERAL ITEMS.

    In a certain town, not long ago, the gas bill of a portable theatre showing there had not been paid at the week's end for the preceding month's consumption when ...

    Article : 186 words
  3. FARM NOTES.

    No horse should be allowed to eat for ten minutes after arriving home from a Bong journey or hard work. For hard-working horses all grain ...

    Article : 245 words
  4. PIGS FOR PROFIT.

    'I have read a lot (writes "Amicus," in our English contemporary, the Farmer and Stockbreeder"), on the reason why the agricultural laborer leaves ...

    Article : 1,137 words
  5. ANALYSIS OF ROSE SOILS IN AMERICA.

    (Contribution from the Laboratory of the Pennsylvania State College Experiment Station.) All species of domesticated plants possess, as an essential condition to domestication the ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  6. THE PROPER DRYING AND CURING OF HOPS.

    A most, important department of the hop industry is their preservation upon being removed from the vines. Every step of the season's work, from early ...

    Article : 518 words
  7. MARK TWAIN ON THE COPYRIGHT LAWS.

    Mark Twain could hardly be expected to find a Select Committee of the House of Lords soil congenial for the growth of rare jokes. But when examined ...

    Article : 401 words
  8. SEIZED IN FRANCE.

    The Paris correspondent of tile "Daily Telegraph" writes:—Considerable mystery attaches to the arrest of a Frenchman in Paris a few, ...

    Article : 410 words
  9. MAIZE AS PIG FOOD.

    It is not so common as it used to be but the practice of feeding hogs on whole maize till they can hardly stand is still prevalent to a large extent. It is very ...

    Article : 280 words
  10. MILK AND BUTTER.

    Families that keep only one cow should have only the best to be procured. More labor is required to care for a single cow, proportionately, than for a herd. The ...

    Article : 217 words
  11. SAINT JUDAS.

    After the credulity evinced by the followers of Joe Smith one is prepared for almost any extravagance in religion, but the canonisation of Judas Iscariot seems ...

    Article : 135 words
  12. MARVELS IN MENUS.

    Except to the diners, for whose information it is provided, a bill of fare is not usually a particularly interesting document, but when it composer gives ...

    Article : 697 words
  13. THE BEEKEEPER.

    As is now well known, when bees are left to shift for themselves without any assistance from the beekeeper, whether they are placed in an empty modern frame ...

    Article : 635 words
  14. THE VALUE OF FOWL MANURE.

    Now that the time is here for preparing soil for crops, many who desire to have the best produce are anxious to treat the soil as liberally as possible, and they ...

    Article : 279 words
  15. COMPANY PROMOTERS' PROFITS.

    An appeal to the House of Lords by Montage, Gluckstein has been dismissed. The case was somewhat similar to that in which certain city men of high standin[?] ...

    Article : 134 words
  16. REMARKABLE CASE.

    Here is the story of Corparal J. Anderson's marvellous experience. He belongs to the Black Watch, and was at Magersfontein. Finding himself among a ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. KIMBERLEY.

    A sister in Nazareth House. Kimberley, writes as follows to the London "Daily Telegraph":—"We could hardly believe our eyes ...

    Article : 445 words
  18. POINTS OF A GOOD DAIRY COW.

    A dairying journal in America asked its readers to send in descriptions, in the fewest number of words, of what a good dairy cow should look like, and that a prize ...

    Article : 386 words
  19. A TUBERCULOSIS GOAT.

    The goat is usually regarded as all but immune to tuberculosis, but one of these animals has been condemned in the Carlisie district, England, during the past ...

    Article : 80 words
  20. HOW TO PRODUCE GOOD VEGETABLES.

    The secret of success in growing good vegetables is good culture. All, or nearly all, depends upon this, but, strange as it may seem, failure of crop, or lack of ...

    Article : 617 words
  21. HORSE SICKNESS DREADED.

    A cavalry officer in South Africa. wrote in February: "We are dreading the time when horse sickness will break out, as it is sure to do in March, as probably 60 to ...

    Article : 85 words
  22. A WORD ABOUT SHOEING.

    The proper shoeing of a horse is to many owners more important than feeding and grooming, and yet we seldom see anything in print on the subject. The writer ...

    Article : 1,254 words
  23. BRITAIN MUST PREPARE.

    Lord Rosebery (says the "Daily Mail," of 5th April) made another important speech in Edinburgh yesterday, at the annual meeting of the Scottish Unity of the ...

    Article : 1,548 words
  24. "MARRIED AT 17 TO A LADY OF SEVENTY-SEVEN."

    At the Londin Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday an application for an order of discharge was made by M. S. Stevenson described as of 11 Queen Victoria street, ...

    Article : 307 words
  25. COULD GO THE PACE.

    Customer: You told me that this 'oss'ad won a dozen matches agin o' some o' th' best 'osses in the country. Why, 'e can't trot a mile in ten minutes to save 'is life. ...

    Article : 62 words
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