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This year’s corn crop in the United States will, it is thought, be 3,210,192,000 bushels—the largest in the history of the country by more than 90,000,000 bushels. It will exceed the figures for 1919 by 300,000,000 bushels. “In all my experience of dairy farming, ’’ said a Levin dairyman to a Chronicle representative this week, “I don’t think there has ever been a time when the industry has been in a position like the present. It is true we are getting big prices, but the question is: What is going to be the position at the end of March, when the Imperial purchase ends? I don’t want fo be pessimistic, but when meat, wool, skins and hides were placed on the open market after the commandeer, values fell. If the same thing happens to butter, there will be an immediate effect on land values here, and for this reason big things are pending within the next few months. ’
“Harry,” exclaimed the blushing maiden, “this declaration of love is su sudden that 1 hardly know what to say. I was unprepared for it. It unnerves me.” “I was afraid it might,” said the young chemist, rising with alacrity from his knees, “and J brought with me a bottle of my unrivalled nerve lonic. This preparation, my darling,” be adddd, soothingly, as he took the bottle from bis pocket, quickly extracted the cork, and poured a quantity of the medicine into a spoon he had also brought 'with him, “will allay any undue excitement, quiet the nerves and digestion, and restore lost appetite. I sell it at Is 3d a. bottle. This is a dose for an adult. Take it, dearest.”
The wage system, like all other human devices, Ims its defects, and, no doubt, as time goes on, some alternative methods of distributing the rewards of labour will be devised; but the lunatics who want to reshuffle the cards so that their dupes may “work ’ four hours a day and loaf twenty, are not going to bring about the millenium, but a cataclysm., in which large masses of hard workers will be reduced to misery and starvation. The result of the advocacy of “the Impossiblists" is all too evident in Australia today. and should be a solemn warning to the people of this country. The capitalists who arc operating to create an artificial scarcity of commodities, and the wage-workers who are organising to go slow on the job and create an artificial condition in the labour market are plain, simple thieves. Both are the enemies of (he workers, i.e., of the whole command v. —M.D. Times.
The perfume of most llowers tins some effect on human beings. Pop-, pies, for instance, cause headaches, and roses, if inhaled freely, lead to dizziness. Singers do not like violets,’Tor the perfume from that little flower causes huskiness and sore throats. If a professional singer is handed a bouquet she nearly always glances at it before burying her face amongst the llowers. If violets were included their perfume might ruin her voice for the evening. lied the eye. America’s must promising native source of industrial alcohol is her vast corn belt; maize for years has stood pre-eminently as the cheapest raw stuff for the distillers. It is undeniably true that wood waste is susceptible of furnishing a great volume of industrial alcohol, but there are difficulties of an outstanding nature which now seriously hamper putting any of the proeesses in service upon a commercial scale of moment.
Coasting is much of an all-year-round sport in Switzerland. Indeed, no sooner does the snow disappear and the warm weather is well under wa,v than the sled is replaced by a small three-wheeled coaster. This vehicle is steered by means of a simple handle controlling the single front wheel, A set of brakes operated by foot controls serves to check the speed during the downward rush over the smooth roads. -
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2224, 8 January 1921, Page 1
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654GENERAL NEWS ITEMS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2224, 8 January 1921, Page 1
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