25 YEARS AGO
THE "glorious twelfth" is set to go off well for British sportsmen tomorrow, but a drop in the traditional influx of foreigners is indicated. Grouse stocks on the moors are said to be the best for two years because of a mild winter and good weather during the breeding period. Aberdeenshire, the Pentlands and the Lammermuirs were likely to prove the best bet.
50 YEARS AGO
A WHITE Paper states that 2,433,487 experiments on living animals were made last year. Cats, dogs, horses, asses or mules were used in 12,189 experiments. There were 140,538 experiments in the course of cancer investigations, most of which were performed on rodents. Cancer experiments performed without anaesthesia involved mostly external applications, injections, or "feeding" experiments designed to test for any possible cancer-producing factors in foods or other substances in common domestic or commercial use.
100 YEARS AGO
AS MR Balfour's answer to a question put to him yesterday permits the hope that he has not yet made up his mind to appoint only one Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, it may be not be too late to state certain broad considerations that ought to lead him in the opposite direction. In the opinion of those familiar with the subject, a separate Royal Commission for Scotland is absolutely necessary.
150 YEARS AGO
GAME - Whether it be that the eggs were addled by the cold in the beginning of summer, or the nutritious quality of the heatherwas destroyed by the frost, or from whatever other cause, we fear it is certain that the grouse this year, both in Dumfries-shire and Galloway, are sadly defective in numbers.
200 YEARS AGO
A MACHINE has been constructed by an ingenious farmer at Newtown Cunningham, Ireland, which with a horse and two men will thrash up to 150 stooks of barley.
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