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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16216, 20 May 1918, Page 4

■ AN AVERY TRAGTOH FOR every sized FAIOL —♦ —: . i "Whether your farm be 50 acres. loo| rjcrcs, or 1000 acres, there s ail Aveiyj Farm' Tractor to suit your require-: ments. It will cut down the cost of; . ploughing—it will do your discin-7; • cheaper—it will harrow, pack, haul, cut- ! tivatc, drill, and mow at lesser ox-; pense than you can do the work with horses. An ideal size Avery Tractor i is the 8-16 h.p. model. Tt is equal j tc eight draught horses —two teams of! four- Yet the Avery will do the work I with only one man or boy to work I!,! and with no other maintenance cost than kerosene for fuel and oil for lubri-; eating. When you work out the savings it makes, you will see the Avery ; pavs for itself over and over again !n a few years—and'it will not-have to be "pensioned off'* as horses do when «.id. T.n England the Avery Farm Tr/ietor is a great favourite. Lister's /makers of the famous English oil engine cabled as follows: "Have had twelve months' experience Averv motors. So : d : over 100 machines; results vorv s*»ti«-; factory and consider machines in front rank * Souplying Government here. ' The New Zealand Department of Agriculture is also supplied. Fanrers should remember that the Government win assist them to buy tractors—full details ran be obtained from t.lu- Department of Agriculture. A 12-25 Averv Model TV. has iust been delivered to Hon. MacDonaltl. Minister of Agriculture. for use on his own .farm. TVhit" or call fo r details as to sizes and prices. Start now the «Averv wav. A. Rf trick and Co., Ltd.. TVanganm and Wellington, New Zealand arents. AY. A. McLaren and Co.. Ltd., Christchurch, Canterbury agents. 214

I Food rationing, -which had become an acute problem at the London Zoo, has been partially solved by the tapping of an hitherto untouched source. There have been many instances of a starving garrison living on dog-flesh, but the beleaguered host in Regent's Park need a large quantity to satisfy their hunger. Every week thousands of stray dogs have been put to death in the lethal chambers of the Dogs' Homes and their bodies afterwards destroyed. Now, bv arrangement with the Zoo authorises, dead animals are sent to them. This plan has proved very satisfactory. The lions like the dog-flesh, but som« of them will not touch it until it has been skinned. Previously largo quantities: of horseflesh were consumed, but now that is not so plentiful. I used to b® » martyr to bronchitis, A victim ead of winter ills and ails. Till I ™ told by chatty Mrs Rightis, Of a remedy that really never fails. The winter time now scarcely seems to try ia0 > * • Tho' I sometimes get a twinge, you may be sure; But I always keep a large-siz:?d bottle by me, „ Of "Woods' Great PeoDermmt Cuie. lg