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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 287, 28 November 1908, Page 4

WESTFIELD PREPARED GUANO Packed 2 cwt. Sacks [Tfor turnips Packed 2 cwt. Sacks 33irF PRICE: 4c5-10-0 IV. T. WELLS, Manaia Road, writes us, 12111 September, 1908: " This year I grew one of the LARGEST CROP OP SWEDES I ever saw, either here or iu England, with your PREPARED GUANO, 2 cM. ;o the acre. On the first break of 5% acres I had nearly 800 head, mostly empty cows, for nearly 5 weeks, and all the rest of paddock quite as good, if not better. I also used your "A" SUPER for grass on my Normanby Farm, with very best results." MANUFACTURERS: &T SPECIAL QUOTATIONS FOR LARGE LOTS. KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER & CO.'S **• prug e°-UJ-HEAD OFFICE ALBERT STREET, AUCKLAND.

THE RETORT COURTEOUS The old major of cavalry was th -1 owner of ii paii' of Imw lugs ami n hot temper. He was, moreover, an enthusiastic golfer. But lie was still only fifty ,yards from his Hrst tee with 'his filth stroke. The new member was waiting to J)lay, and at last his patience gave out. "Fore!" he cried, and drove oil'. Kii had done better to have waited a little longer. His ball scudded along the turf and rolled between the major's legs. "Here you, sir, confound you," exclaimed the latter, hotly, " that is not golf, sir!" " Xo, ;]>erha|is not," replied the new member, slowly and thoughtfully, " hut it is rattling good croquet." A FICKLE GODDESS Commend me not the steadfast lass To share the nuptial knot, Let others raise their song and glass To her who altered not. '■as: 1 pledge the girl of fickle mood Who's always making game, ']) he girl of sudden interlude And never twice the same. Why do I praise the changeable And slum the constant mind? Why do T love tin*, variable, Least linn of womankind'/ At each caress that she permit*, My soul new joys invade, For every time I kiss her, it's Like kissing another maid.

Aeronauts Have noticed that tin? harking of a dog is the last sound they hear from earth, being sometimes then at an elevation of four miles. There are 700,000 trees in New York. Applause is forbidden in Russian* theatres. ■Sheep's horns are used fur shoeing horses in Iceland. Cigars form pari of the daily rations of tiie 1 liilian M>ldier. The tallest masts oi sailing vessels vary f'.o-n UiOft. to 180 ft. in height. Paper-hangings for walls were introduced into Knrope from tlie liast in 1075. | A llowering plant has not, so far, been discovered within tile Arctic eii'rle. "Norwegian cattle are, at times, fed on .powdered whale meat lor latteiiing purposes. The skins of 100,000 animals are used every year for the covers of Oxford Bibles alone. A fox can scent danger a quarter of * mile off if the wind is in a favourable direction. For work on China, decorators use brushes made of spun glass, as due and I soft us silk. I The smallest quadruped h the p'gwy mouse of Russia.