Wheat profits in Cape Colony show variable returns
The article notes wheat cultivation in Cap a Calony yields about 12 bushels per acre with net profit potential. Mr M Jack estimates first year costs at £3 18s per acre, subsequent years at £2 1s, with possible £2 19s profit. oats offer slightly higher per acre returns. It highlights soil fertility, live stock for farmyard manure, and cautious management as keys to success.
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Agricultural Journal of
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Colour Blindness and Its Curious Effects in daily Life
A survey of colour blindness notes that about fifty per thousand men and four per thousand women are affected. It explains how blue yellow and red green deficiencies distort perception, with anecdotes of miscolored clothing, painting mishaps, stamp miscounts, and a Quaker choosing brownish hues. Women reportedly match colours better despite no ocular difference.
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Hrett
Royal Astronomical Society
Srey
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Structure of the Universe and Stellar Density Question
Professor J. C. Kapteyn surveys the Milky Way to test how star density and luminosity vary with distance from the solar system. He asks whether star crowding is uniform across galactic directions and if a universal limit to stellar distribution exists.
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Mrs William Wallace Seeks Parrawarra Cough Remedy Note
Parrawarra resident Mr William Wallace says he keeps Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at home and it has never failed for coughs. Product offered for sale by Ashburton Drug Company.
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Hillston
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Penny a Word Telegrams for Empire Proposed by Heaton
J Henniker Heaton M P urged penny a word telegrams to end cable monopolies across the empire. He called for world conferences among postmasters general to establish penny rate telegrams in Europe and then with American postal authorities. He cited high current costs, suggesting landlines could supplant cables with far greater capacity and lower costs.
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M.P
Royal Colonial Institute
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Forest removal in Mauritius does not reduce total rainfall
Studies at the Royal Alfred Observatory show total annual rainfall in Mauritius remains nearly unchanged after deforestation from one third to far less forest cover. The number of rainy days dropped about 30 percent, as tree transpiration previously increased humidity and local afternoon showers. Authorities do not push widespread planting to alter climate.
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Carnegie Sees socialism versus individualism in modern debate
The article discusses Mr Carnegie's view in his book Problems of To-Day comparing socialism and individualism. It uses a hare and tortoise metaphor to argue that individualism progresses steadily while socialism lags, with the hare unable to start and the tortoise maintaining a persistent path.
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Always Ailing Women Find Relief in Dr Morse Pills
In a Port Chal mers reader letter Mrs W Watson describes long term headaches and fatigue from ill health. She credits Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills with rapid relief from headaches swellings and digestive issues and urges others with similar woes to try the remedy.
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Cats Return Home After Short Abduction Near Tooting
Reports describe a cat taken from Newcastle returning two days later to its former residence at the old home. Other items note US mints adopting sunk designs on gold coins, a French study on squinting, Sweden’s tree export and forestry income, Berlin unemployment figures, and a faster tempo for the national anthem per Army Order 281 1908.
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