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  2. A PICTURE WITH A BENEDICTION.

    A poor Bohemian gipsy girl of remarkable beauty was employed by a German artist to sit for one of his "studies." In his studio she saw an unfinished painting ...

    Article : 449 words
  3. COUNTRIES ENRICHED BY PLANTS.

    Sir Joseph Hooker tells a pretty story of a little wild flower and a desert island. The island is one of the unnamed group south of the Falklands. Nearly a century ...

    Article : 714 words
  4. THE CABINET MINISTER'S PRESENT.

    Lord Ragdean was slowly pacing up sad down his office in Whitehall. In his hand he held a letter, from which he read I brief extracts in an undertone, ...

    Article : 2,600 words
  5. BURIED CITIES.

    For some time back there have been coming into the possession of various museums, and of archaeologists, certain manuscripts written in what were ...

    Article : 258 words
  6. Stack Ensilage.

    It is quite worth while to grow crops specially for ensilage, such as oats, maize, clover, retches, etc. Maize does best preserved in a stare ...

    Article : 381 words
  7. FARM CHEESE MAKING.

    The following directions are given in a contemporary for enabling farmers to make good cheese on a small scale at home:— ...

    Article : 711 words
  8. Variation in Milk Tests.

    Mr. F. W. Bouska, Assistant Dairy Commissioner, Iowa, U.S.A., writes as follows respecting this matter:— Of all the questions that milk ...

    Article : 1,013 words
  9. LIKE A CHINESE HOLLAND.

    Much has been written concerning the ingenuity of the Dutch in keeping the sea from flowing over Holland. The fight of the Chinese with the Pacific is far more ...

    Article : 164 words
  10. PRACTICAL MANURING DIRECTIONS.

    A bulletin treating of the methods of manuring the soil has just been issued by the experiment station at Sillwater, Okla., U.S.A. ...

    Article : 199 words
  11. THE SOLDIER IN BATTLE.

    Mr. Milne has written a very touching analysis of the soldier's temperament in his "Epistles of Atkins." This is the soldier's own impression of the sensation ...

    Article : 375 words
  12. A VILLAGER'S CURIOUS MISTAKE.

    Some years ago a thrifty old cottager, named Bethia Rummy, attended service every Sunday morning at the little Church of St. Elzevir, distant some two miles from ...

    Article : 141 words
  13. TWO FAITHFUL DOGS.

    A strange but true snake story comes from Sierra Madre, California. A little girl whose mother resides at that place saw a large snake ...

    Article : 169 words
  14. LIME AND PHOSPHATES.

    It is necessary to repeat certain truths very often. Many people fail to remember facts that are or great importance to them. All farmers should ...

    Article : 295 words
  15. THE WIFE'S SHARE.

    A writer in a work on farming, devotes a portion of it in dealing with the home and the farmer's wife. "Is not the work of a farmer's wife in ...

    Article : 241 words
  16. THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

    Life's beautiful things are so many, So free to the humblest one, That even to count them for thought's delight, ...

    Article : 124 words
  17. HARVESTING ONIONS.

    How long they shall remain out drying must be largely a matter of judgment on the part of the grower,, with two points as his guide. The bulbs ...

    Article : 165 words
  18. THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

    Sperm whales are the richest prizes of the ocean, yielding spermaceti from their brain-cases, ivory from their lower jaws, and rich yellow oil from their sides. ...

    Article : 217 words
  19. HINTS ON WATERING GARDENS.

    There is much unnecessary labor expended in watering, a large proportion of which would be prevented if due due thought were given to the subject; but ...

    Article : 255 words
  20. A PARABLE FROM THE PAST.

    "Father," said a young man, to an Ancient who lived in the early times on the banks of the Nile: "Father, I have come as a disciple of thine, to learn wisdom ...

    Article : 217 words
  21. TRAINING A SADDLE HORSE.

    In teaching colts the walk-trot-canter, it is necessary that they have some good thoroughbred blood close up, and if they have good action they may ...

    Article : 442 words
  22. TREAT THE COW WELL.

    The best bred animals in the world will become dry and useless under rough treatment. Therefore, be kind and gentle to your milch cows. It is ...

    Article : 189 words
  23. MILK STOOL VERY NICE.

    At a meeting of farmers in Scotland. a visitor from South Africa, the "North British Agriculturist reports, told an amusing story. He had got a number of ...

    Article : 121 words
  24. COMIN' AWA' IN BITS.

    Commercial travellers can tell some good stories, and now and then some good ones are told at their expense. The following is characteristic, not only of the ...

    Article : 274 words
  25. AN EARLY-TO-BED CITY.

    In Vienna every man's home is practically his prison from ten o'clock at night till six in the morning. The Austrian capital is a city of flats, and at ten o'clock ...

    Article : 155 words
  26. RINGING PIGS.

    A heavy mattress needle, ill a stout handle, or the small blade of a good sharp pocket-knife, answers every purpose for making, the holes in the ...

    Article : 237 words
  27. WOUNDS IN CATTLE.

    If an ordinary wound be superficial the first object should be to stop excessive hemorrhage, and this may be done by pressure, bandaging and applying ...

    Article : 251 words
  28. LOADING A WAGGON.

    When the load is placed over the hind wheels of a waggon it draws 10 per cent. easier than when it is placed over the front wheels. Higher front wheels ...

    Article : 89 words
  29. DIFFERENT STYLES OF MILKING.

    There are practically four different ways of milking a cow—the tugging versus the squeezing, and the wet versus the dry. The cow with strong, ...

    Article : 134 words
  30. A BLUFF.

    Dr. Price: "I'd like you to settle my bill for services during your recent illness." Joakley: "I understood from what ...

    Article : 69 words
  31. RHUBARB P[?].

    Wash and dry fruit and out up add about 3 table spoonful sugar and pinch of ground ginger. Pastry 8 o[?]nees flour, 1 teaspoonful baking ...

    Article : 52 words
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