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  2. The Farmer.

    The man who is breeding cattle for beef can get a pretty fair idea of the breeding qualities of his bull the first time he sees his calf. By the ...

    Article : 86 words
  3. Science Notes & News.

    Cheddite is an explosive that has been extensively used for the past few years. The explosive will not freeze, and is practically ...

    Article : 116 words
  4. American Humour.

    "Your circular." says the dissatisfied guest to the proprietor, "announced that you offer especial advantages to aeronauts. I don't see a single ...

    Article : 65 words
  5. Facts and Fancies.

    The glaciers uniting to form the great Gorner glacier above Zermatt have a width of ten miles, and soon after they have joined the ...

    Article : 1,221 words
  6. THE LAST STRAW.

    The Smithers had been having an argument. Dinner came and stopped it After all, peace was a good thing, and well worth having, and, so thought the ...

    Article : 143 words
  7. A NEW VEGETABLE.

    M. Aug. Chevalier gives an interesting account of a vegetable of the bean variety which grows in Africa in the Dahomey region. The grains ...

    Article : 348 words
  8. UNSINKABLE.

    To make a useful and efficient air lock for boats, take a board about three feet long, nail ends and one side to it, and fit it to the side of ...

    Article : 83 words
  9. AUTOMATIC BOTTLE-MAKING.

    A machine for automatically making bottles is reported as giving excellent results. A molten mass of glass is taken from the furnace on ...

    Article : 144 words
  10. PLUCKING AND SHAPING.

    I treated the different methods of killing a week or two ago; now let me write a few words on plucking and shaping—two important ...

    Article : 304 words
  11. GETTING RID OF RATS.

    Two miles of rat traps are being installed under the docks of Seattle's waterfront by the municipal department of health and sanitation. Since ...

    Article : 155 words
  12. AN EASY FIT.

    A number of years ago there lived in northern New Hampshire a notorious woman-hater. It was before the day of ready-made clothing, and ...

    Article : 154 words
  13. REPTILES OF JAMAICA.

    In the "Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology" Mr. Barbour has some interesting notes on the present status of reptiles in ...

    Article : 111 words
  14. WHAT ODOUR IS.

    No substance that refuses to dissolve in, water has an odour. It is the actual substance itself, floating in particles in the air, that appeals ...

    Article : 127 words
  15. A FRIEND IN NEED.

    The clumsy man was covered with confusion when, plunging forward as the car started with a jerk, he knocked down an umbrella, resting against ...

    Article : 190 words
  16. THE WHITE WYANDOTTE.

    The popularity of this splendid all-round variety of the Wyandotte shows no signs of diminishing. As an egg producer the ordinary White ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 148 words
  17. The Poultry Run.

    Buff Orpingtons and Langshans fay the deepest-coloured eggs, the former being of the largest size. The egg is manufactured at less ...

    Article : 253 words
  18. PAPER MOTOR TYRES.

    An ingenious inventor has now undertaken to replace the strips of rubber used in motor tryes by compound strips of paper attached to ...

    Article : 88 words
  19. MATING FOWLS.

    A correspondent is anxious to know whether in mating birds it is possible to control the sex of the offspring therefrom. This is a ...

    Article : 186 words
  20. Bits from Books.

    Mr. Herbert Ward tells an amusing story in his "A Voice from the Congo." He was interviewing the chief of a native tribe ...

    Article : 308 words
  21. A CROOKED NAIL.

    The novice at carpentering who experiences difficulty in driving a nail straight will probably be at a loss to understand why anyone should go ...

    Article : 175 words
  22. SHE COULD AFFORD A TIP.

    How illogical some methods of tipping are is well seen in the following incident. A woman in a Russian ponycoat stopped at the foot of the ...

    Article : 278 words
  23. THE SEX OF GEESE.

    If there is one thing which more than another is a source of trouble to the owners of geese, it is the difficulty of distinguishing between ...

    Article : 252 words
  24. POPULAR ALLUSIONS.

    One of our grossest illusions about Germany is the popular belief that everyone of her sons serves as a soldier. If that were so ...

    Article : 124 words
  25. PICTURES OF INSECTS.

    A French inventor baa perfected a cinematograph with which pictures of insects in flight may be taken, and afterwards exhibited in motion ...

    Article : 84 words
  26. THE BIRDS THAT WIN.

    Everybody knows that judges will not consider fowls which, are wild in die pens, and yet a Comparative­ly large number of exhibitors never ...

    Article : 311 words
  27. PRODUCING RAIN AT WILL.

    In the course of an address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Mr. S. Z. de Fomants said he believed the [?] would come ...

    Article : 113 words
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