DEW-DROPS
All dewdrops are perfectly round. Dew is deposited only on a fine, clear night. Evening dew is unhealthy, being laden with noxious exhalations.
More dew is deposited on culti*vated than.on uncultivated land. Dew will not stay on rose leaves, because these have an essential oil in them.
Dew rolls off cabbage and like leaves because they are coated with a fine waxen powder. Dew is most abundant in exposed situations, thorp being less to arrest the radiation of i*ue earth's heat. There is no dew after a windy night; it is evaporated its fast as produced. We get most dew after a hot summer's dav and a westerly wind.
Li I tie or no dew is ever deposited on smooth stones, polished metal or woollen material. If there were no sunsets there would he no dew, and vegetation would perish, It is the sun’s withdrawal, and the cooling of the earth, plants, etc,, by radiation of their liett I I hit I makes them cold enough to condense the air vapour into dew. Nature’s wisdom is shown by the Tuft that plants with woolly leaves require most moisture, and it is those leaves which radiate most heat, and therefore get most dew.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2307, 26 July 1921, Page 1
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203DEW-DROPS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2307, 26 July 1921, Page 1
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