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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Nov 28, 1925
Page
3
The Jordanut palm is one of the most widespread tropical trees providing food and fragrance. It yields an important dyeing material used in the Far East, ground to powder, soaked, boiled, and used to color fabrics. Oil in the corners is extracted for perfumery, shaping a market for Nerhonesy products.
A short critical note on Shelley's poem Love's Philosophy, noting his place among Byron and Keats and summarizing the sonnetlike imagery of mingling elements and suggested unity. The excerpt mentions lines about fountains, rivers, oceans, winds, mountains, sunlight, and sea as natural expressions of desire, and ponders whether the speaker is the solitary one.
The article surveys unusual meteorological events with colored rain and snow. It cites instances in Hampshire New York England Ireland, including red ink in 19th century castles, London rain with plant particles, black snow in the Alps, red snow in the Tyrol and Arctic, Sahara dust in Alps near the Mediterranean, and frogs reported after heavy salt showers in various regions.
The Chance glass firm marks a hundred years with a storied role in optical glass and sheet glass used in the Crystal Palace glazing. Their sheets equipped major observatories and lighthouses, with renowned work across laboratories, telescopes, and prisms from Smethwick works.
The article explains watch pivots use jewels to reduce wear, with bearings made from sapphires rubies garnet and crystal. It notes jewel quality and correct wheel jewels determine accuracy, warning that a movement with poor jewels may run poorly despite function. Leeper is referenced.
Dr. Frank Crane notes 16 million readers and about 200 periodicals devoted to crosswords. He argues puzzles boost vocabulary and mental agility, though excessive focus may distract from more essential pursuits.
A compact note links pencil history to slate quarries and coast headlands. It explains dictating roots from pen place names such as Penrith Penmaen mawr the Pennines and Penzance, noting slate sources for early pencils and grodem read writing material.
The text presents a fragmented lyric or poem with garbled phrasing and misspellings. It mentions banishing Cupid, restoring privacy, and references to Annabel and a distant note, but lacks coherent events or identifiable publication details.
Weekly notes issued by direction of the Minister of Agriculture reflect departmental experience and guidance for agricultural and pastoral practices. The brief memo outlines practical observations and recommendations for farmers and ranchers based on ongoing field work and departmental responsibilities.
This fragment describes parasite species affecting pigs and horses, noting life cycles and the stomach impact. It covers identification of flies and larvae, their breeding on animals, and resulting health issues including indigestion, colic, peritonitis, and weight loss. It also touches on preventive feeding practices and hygiene to reduce infestation risks.
Historical veterinary guidance describes internal and external treatments for horse bots. It notes laxatives, sugar in water, linseed oil, and certain emulsions, alongside antiseptic dressings and grooming to remove eggs. Cautions include consulting a veterinary surgeon for internal remedies and careful handling to avoid injury.
Wembley Alberta illustrates naming new towns after persons and places in Canada. Ontario towns like Windsor, Woodstock, Chatham, and a London on the Thames show this practice. Prime ministers, officials, and magnates are commemorated with post offices and station names across provinces.
A highly fragmentary text presents piecemeal lines with surreal imagery and scattered phrases. It references living beings, pots, colors red and white, shadows, and distant allusions to love and criticism. The piece reads like an experimental poetic fragment with unclear authorship.
Reports from Widecombe note road sections near the village paved with an unusual granite containing gold and silver. A geologist estimates two tons of rock could yield about thirty shillings in gold and two thirds of an ounce of silver, with similar rock used in walls and moorland boulders. The source vein remains undiscovered.
Fragmentary verse about a water cart and rain or dust in a city street. Vague imagery mentions spray, footsteps, and a night scene with tiring sounds. Names and places are unreadable, yet the mood hints at urban dampness and longing for rain.
The Railway General Managers Bulletin reports locusts sent from Kavzerne to Durban for shipment to Holman. Locusts will be fed for livestock and poultry. a portion of oil will be extracted for aeroplane engines. Special properties are said to keep oil liquid at high altitude.
Celery is a valuable vegetable suitable for antirheumatic and anti scorbutic uses. When stowed the boiled water and dissolved potash are discarded. Boil celery directly in the stock pot to preserve flavor and minerals in the soup.
A medical writer notes nostrils filter air and air becomes purer after a refining process. The text describes air passage through mucous glands, warming, and removing impurities, then moving through the lungs into the bloodstream. It mentions air circulation through cells in the bones and nerve stimulation in the head.
Agricultural experts address whether Kikuyu grass has multiple strains and if imported stock from South Africa or Belgian Congo offers superior drought and frost resistance. Findings indicate a single strain in Mis State, native to Bulgin Congo, with limited performance in dry areas. The department notes Kikuyu’s value for bracken control but cautions against desert-region cultivation. Roots for spring planting are available at nominal prices to cover digging costs.
A farmer’s note describes lucerne as top green feed for pigs, with wheat oats and maize greens. cowpeas and jerusalem artichokes noted for drought resistance. It covers using sweet potatoes sugar beet pumpkins and proper feeding practices including skim milk and boiled potato water avoidance.
A guide on growing carrots detailing soil and manure needs, seed selection, spacing, sowing methods, hoeing, thinning, and harvesting. Discusses spring and summer sowing, watering, and fertilization with superphosphate or sulphate of potash, and notes on seed quantity and care for early yields.
The text discusses washing roots before welling and selecting an eyye type for earliest crops in mid-un aballow soils. It mentions crop and on Avep evils, the longer vaio, and tests suited such as Titormed'- 4, Altraughanl, Duuivers, and Manchester able. It also notes roots pulled by pitbtiz in sand during cool mortls, methods of storing yatatoes, and cutting off the tap growth before heaping.
The passage explains building dairy milking yards with durable foundations using large stones and gravel, with raised surfaces and underground drains. It stresses proper approaches for cattle movement, keeping yards level, and regular maintenance to avoid water holes and costly repairs.
The article describes making a grafting wax by melting resin and tall oil with bees wax and applying a warm coating to grafting stock. It details dipping the tips, shaping the wax around the stocks, and forming a non sticky seal that can be wound onto a stick for storage and to keep the calico grafts clean and ready for use.
A report from the U S Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology notes experimental use of aircraft dusting to control insect pests in peach orchards around Fort Valley Georgia. Dusting 10 000 trees required 155 minutes with arsenite dust. plans call for 1000 acres to be treated by aerial application this season, with cost and operational data to follow.
Farmers and apiarists discuss sterilising American foul brood infected combs in Cambridgeshire. Dr Tinzelman’s 20 percent formalin alcohol solution raises hopes but concerns over cost, evaporation, and practicality persist. A water-diluted formula shows similar early results, broadening debate among beekeepers.
The writer quotes J H Tones of Ontario Agricultural College on experiments with water as a substitute for alcohol in dilutions. Aimed to test formalin and Hutzehmun solutions, larvae spores were observed after twenty four hours immersion in various dilutions. Uncapped cells showed spore filling. capped cells largely did not.
A damaged OCR reading mentions spores and eyed Galle Ais with unrcapped cells and formalin diluants tested. It references infected broad combi figures and eye scales, suggesting an experimental context but lacks clear results or conclusions.
The article describes methods for washing and disinfecting treated combs to remove formalin residues and odor. It notes rinsing under hot water, vertical and side-to-side movements to remove coatings, and testing various proprietary disinfectants. It mentions parallel bee keep practices and aims to reduce American foulbrood infection in districts.
The first crossword puzzle appeared in the New York World in 1912 designed by Arthur Wynne inspired by an English magazine puzzle. It began as a magic square style puzzle, later refined in the London Sunday News and Lloyd's Sunday News before returning to the New York World and gaining popularity after World War I.
Colors From Rubbish reveals coal tar once deemed waste. Experiments showed tar splits into about ten primary products yielding hundreds of substances like xylene and phenal. These form the basis of dyes, medicines, and commerce through fractional distillation with a sensitive boiler thermometer.
After hard work or social duties drink the new dustfreed Tes tea. It claims richer flavour and stimulating strength with a clear amber color and no muddy tint when creamed. Blended from finest Ceylon leaves, it supposedly makes 200 cups from 160 and offers forty more delicious flavors. Your grocer will supply you.
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