Artistic Flower Arrangements for the Home
The piece advises on home flower styling using simple, fresh blooms against soft light. It favors clear glass vessels, simple lines, and natural greens, noting yellow accents glow against a half light. It highlights careful color harmony, seasonal foliage, and affordable decorative touches like Japanese ceramic frogs.
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Wenedergally
Climbing Plants Offer Beautifying Solutions for Homes
The article highlights permanent climbers and annuals for home grounds, noting vines such as Boston and English ivy, trumpet vine, crimson rambler, honeysuckles, and moonflower. It advises against roof and wall damage, recommends proper trellis placement, and mentions cultivation tips for moonflower, morning glory, and sweet peas with frames and fertilizers.
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Elery
Easy Work Growing Strawberry Crop
A guide on soil choice including south slope for early fruit and north slope for late crops. It covers land prep, fall plowing, and manure use, plus plant selection, setting depth, and systems like hedge row and hill planting. It notes care in cultivation, weed control, and timing from April to September, with tips on runners and replanting.
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L. M. Bennington
Preserves and Preserving Methods From the USDA Guide
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines methods and syrups for making preserves and preserves like jams marmalades and similar products. It covers sugar densities cooking times cooling packing sealing processing and specific recipes for watermelon rind peach and tomato preserves. It emphasizes long storage overview of syrups No 1 to No 5 No 8 limits and the need for tight sealing jars and simmering processing for safety.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Pruning Young Trees in Summer Season
This guide explains shaping young fruit trees for easy handling and good yields. It covers open center framework, limb thinning, and season by season trimming for peach, plum, apricot, apple, pear, cherry, and other varieties.
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J. C. Whitten
Missouri College of Agriculture
Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station
Bad roads hinder rural school attendance nationwide
About 12,000,000 of 30,000,000 school aged children cannot regularly attend due to 2,000,000 miles of impassable rural roads. A 15 percent rise in attendance followed highway improvements in eight counties studied by the federal Department of Public Roads and Rural Engineering.
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United States
Federal Department of Public Roads and Rural Engineering