Britain has increased her yield of wheat in the last 300 years at the rnle of about eight bushels an acre in each hundred vears. Peking is surrounded bv a wall 50ft. high and 40ft. thick. The wall portion of the city is 1G miles in circumference. Yellow fever has been effectively controlled bv breeding fish that feed on the larvae of Hie mosquitoes that dissemin- ■ ate the disease.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 8, 5 October 1926, Page 4
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