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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 15 April 1907, Page 4

For six hundred years, s\ys tin* Scientific American, Switzerland ha a battled against great odds. This little country, somewhat- larger than Massachusetts. but snial'lcr 'ihau the State ; jt Maine, with a population (M|ual only to that of -~ew York city, without a harbor, a navigable river, or a lake large enough for commercial use, without a respectable sized farm, without natural deposits of coal or iron, with one-third of its area utterly uninhabited, a second third inhabitable only by tho frugal Swiss, and the remaining third only of average fertility, has been 'obliged 1o solve economic and industrial <|uestions under the most adverse conditions. J{«ing obliged to import her raw material and export the. finished product, she saw that lier only hope.of success lay in so 1 raining her workmen that, they could work at the maximum efficiency. This led to a system of scientific education to ;eovcfr every industry and profession. Til CJeneva. wo find a school of watchmaking: in St. CJallon, the centre of the lace, industry, a school of lace-making; at Brienz, the home of the wood-carving indn>lr\\ a school of wood-carving. All those little choice bits of carving that travellers bring home with such care, were carved by skilled workers. avJio were trained for their work. And hest of all, there is in Zurich Iho greatest polytechnic school in the worlii, which attracts more and has more of its graduates holding responsible positions than any other school in Kurope. The industrial supremacy of Switzerland is due solely to her acceptance of the scientific spirit, Say* an writer*—Take a strap that will reacli aroulld the cow's body and a piece of board about <>in s<iuar<\ Tack to the board two pieces of leather so as to make two hoops. "Put the strap around the cow's body forward of the 1 aider ;md through the loops in the board, letting the board come against her flunk on the side you sit to milk. She cairt kick forward. |>t her step around for a few minutes, then sit down to milk. Tho device is very simple and easily put on, ami after three or four times trying the cow will give no wore trouble.