Forest experiment stations to study silviculture nationwide
The United States forest service plans establish experimental stations in several national forests led by the Coconino in Arizona to study western yellow pine reproduction and other forest factors. The program will use sample plots, model forests, and permanent regional assignments to improve practical outcomes for lumbermen and foresters.
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Useful Duster from Worn-Gut Garment and Home Tips
Around the House offers simple home hacks for dusting linen, mending old sheets into closet hangers, marking stockings with initials, safeguarding handkerchiefs, soaking lace curtains to remove odor, cracking ice with a hot pin, polishing shoes with lambswool and dauber, and a basic furniture polish recipe using benzine linseed oil and turpentine. These practical steps aim to extend garment life and ease daily chores.
Tea Stone Heat Keeper for Teapots Described
A Victorian era tea stone from Holland functions like a cozily quilted warmer. It is polished wood, nearly circular, six or seven inches high, with a flat perforated brass top. A side opening holds a glazed pottery receptacle for charcoal to heat the pot above the openwork top.
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Shane
Oyster Salad Recipe Steps and Dressing Details
Instructions describe stewing oysters in their liquor until edges curl, then cooling in a bowl. To four dozen oysters add three tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one of salt, pepper, and set on ice. Dice celery, mix with oysters, add a cupful of mayonnaise dress.
A Treated Duster Reveals Dust Gathers Brightness
A cheese cloth wrung from turpentine and dried acts as a magic duster. It collects dust without scattering it and restores brightness to every surface it touches.
Bathtub Scrubbing Brush Praised for Household Use
A small tencent-sled style brush is praised as the nicest tool for washing a bathtub. It appeals to men folk in the household as a sensible way to tackle a dreaded duty.
Nut Cakes Recipe Instructions
Three pounds sugar half a pound gutter one pound finely chopped almonds grated lemon rind three pounds flour mix drop a teaspoonful bake in a moderate oven and serve.
Dishwashing Hint Inverts to Clean Dishes Fast
A simple cleaning tip suggests soaking hard cooking dishes in hot water for a few minutes to loosen syrup bread or pastry dough. By inverting the item and using spray or steam, every particle should wash off more easily.
Breakfast Table Recipes for Light Mornings and One Hot Dish
A period voice suggests light breakfasts with one hot dish sufficing. Recipes include Finnan Haddie and Eggs with buttered broiled fish and poached eggs, Baked Breakfast Dish with mashed potatoes jam and eggs, Bacon in Potatoes with bacon filled potatoes, Barberry Jelly from berry juice boiled with sugar, Rose Cake with rose flavoring and iced finish, plus step by step batter and bake instructions.
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Macaroni Dish With Cheese on Toast Triangles
Prepare a cup of boiled salted macaroni cut into half inch pieces. Melt butter, whisk in cornstarch, then slowly add sweet cream and cook briefly. Add salt cayenne and mustard, fold in macaroni and grated American cheese until melted, then serve on toasted bread triangles.
Apricot Catsup Recipe Directions
Two gallons of ripe apricots cooked one hour then strained to remove pits and skins. Add one gallon cider vinegar two pounds brown sugar and spices cinnamon cloves mace allspice and ginger plus horseradish. Reheat three hours bottle when cool.
Expert Carving Dinner Ends With Laughable Reveal
At a dinner a half duck was served to each guest and praised for carving skill. It later emerged that the ducks were split, stuffed, sewn, and baked before cooking. The host simply cut the threads at the table.
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Properly Grease and Line Cake Pans for Easy Release
Do not grease with butter as it sticks. Beef suet is better. To prevent sticking, grease the pan first and then line with greased paper.
Paste preservation tip with alum and clove oil
A concise directive advising to mix one teaspoon of powdered alum and ten drops of clove oil into a pint of smooth paste. The intention is to keep the paste moist and prevent souring, ensuring better storage quality.
Zinc Trick Keeps Flues Clear of Soot
To keep flues clear of soot, stave pipes and boiler tubes may be kept free by occasionally throwing a scrap of zinc into the fire.
Afternoon Dress With Pale Biscuit Silk Trimmings
Graceful dress design featuring high waist, slight back fullness, and a train. Bodice uses tucked net yoke with dark brown silk edging, bretelles attached by a back buckle, medallions at the front, and cord plaiting joining bretelles. Puff sleeves to elbow with chiffon trim and tassel accents.
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Bretelles
Comfort for the Baby With Low Cost Cotton Covers
A mother’s guide describes inexpensive cozy baby covers made from cotton batting between cheesecloth, machine stitched, with an outer pique or bunting bag. The comforter sits inside and is held by corner ribbons and safety pins, allowing easy removal for washing.
Indian shawls as drapery for evening dresses
A fashion note describes using a large white Indian shawl as a DIY evening dress wrap. By folding the shawl over a scant empire white silk gown and securing with three rhinestone pins, one achieves a stylish, sleeveless gown without a dressmaker. Heelless satin slippers and minimal hair styling complete the look.
Dainty Frifis Unveils Sheer Trimmings For Undergarments
The article describes plain sheer frillings in various widths with hemstitched options and a drawing string for gathering. It notes ease of attaching to hems without raw edges and mentions soutache trim used on sashes and rosettes, recalling grandmotherly linens.
Easily Laundered Sleeves for Shirtwaist Comfort
To Jessen materially the difficulty of froniing a shirtwaist sleeve open the sleeve from shoulder in wrist after joining the under arm seam hem the raw edges finish the forward lap with lace and join the sleeve again with button holes and fine flat pearls but tons. The result is not only practical enabling one to iron a shirtwaist to about half the time it usually takes but extremely pretty.
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Jessen
Repairing Lace Curtains From Sun-Worn Edges
A brief sewing tip describes trimming the lower scalloped edge of lace curtains, laying the cut piece on the sunlit worn area, basting and sewing by machine, and finishing to create a solid wall of curtains reaching the window slits. The method emphasizes salvaging usable fabric from damaged lace.
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