Evening Frocks and All Enveloping Coats in Fashion
A fashion overview of evening gowns and wraps highlighting silhouettes for night wear. Describes satin crepe and georgette gowns with fur trim, fur collars and cuffs, velvet draped gowns, and coats with beaded embellishments, tassels, and sashes.
Recipes From A Bygone Kitchen: Tuna Salad To Hermits
A vintage column lists simple recipes and menus focusing on tuna salad, puddings, and hearty baked treats. It includes Tuna Fish Salad, Sponge Pudding, Baltimore Pudding, Hermits, and a suggested lettuce salad with French dressing, ending with a note that more dishes follow.
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Baltimore
Do You Dare to Lead a New Path This Day
A reflective verse challenges readers to choose between following a crowd and striking out for a new, worthwhile goal. It questions courage, leadership, and personal resolve in the face of doubt.
Oranges and Poultry Coops Featured in Season Guide
Old lines mix kitchen recipes with poultry shipping guidance. The article outlines Florida Orange Sticks and Orange Filling with sugared icing, plus molded rice with oranges, then shifts to building durable shipping coops for fowl, standard coop dimensions, exhibition coops for fairs, and training birds for poultry club work.
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Florida
Poultry Club
Ergot Threats Wheat Crops Across North Dakota
North Dakota reports ergot, a poisonous cereal disease, in threshed wheat with samples showing up to 10 percent ergot by weight. Durum wheats show higher susceptibility, while cleanup by brine treatment can remove ergot, reducing contamination for feed and bread use.
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United States Department of Agriculture
North Dakota
New York
Oregon
Canadian
Bead Embellishment Transforms Plain Fabrics
A guide on turning plain fabrics into fancy textiles using small beads or metal nailheads. It explains sewing beadwork on serges tricotines and velvets, adding borders on skirts or sleeves, and recoloring a last season dress with beads on vest, collar, and cuffs.
Paris Lace Frocks and Filmy Fabrics Draw Admiring Gaze
Paris gowns featuring lace and delicate fabrics are paired with small pantalettes that lace the ankles, creating an elegant yet intricate silhouette noted by observers.
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Paris
Barber's Dull Talk Triggers Dream of Home Face
A Hot Springs widow quotes a Central avenue barber who says after a long day he longs to go home to a face that needs nothing done. The remark appears in the Boston Transcript.
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Western
Hot Springs
Central Avenue
Boston Transcript
Grit Vital for Poultry Health and Egg Yield
Poultry raisers often overlook grit though it ensures digestion and health. Keep regular poultry grit in feed boxes or hoppers, and place gravel near the coop to boost health and egg production on many farms.
Winter Egg Factors From Feed and Care
Winter eggs depend on feed and care rather than breed. Some rare fowls may lay better in cold weather, but none will produce eggs in winter unless conditions are right.
Western States Survey Finds Incipient Pea Diseases Widespread
U S Department of Agriculture specialists report incipient pea root-rot in nearly all major western districts and warn of potential spread with seed. They urge long crop rotations and careful monitoring as western climate cannot guarantee plant health, noting leaf and pod spot is the only disease seed transmission risk.
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United States
Central States
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Self-Feeder for Hogs Demonstrated at Indiana Station
A self-feeder for hogs designed by Director Christie at the Indiana Experiment Station is shown in cross section. An inverted V at the bottom causes grain to slide into the trough, and a side gate controls the output. Pigs lift the outside cover to eat and the cover drops when finished. Advantages over other feeders are noted, with Farmers Bulletin 906 cited as a related Department of Agriculture publication.
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Christie
Indiana Experiment Station
Farmers’ Bulletin
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Feed Sow Sparingly at First, but Bring to Full Portion in Ten Days
The United States Department of Agriculture shows two litters per sow annually boosts farm success. Farrow pigs in March for early winter market or in September for fall stock. careful teething, limited first day feeding, gradual weight gain, and separate creep feeding aid growth. Pigs castrated at six to eight weeks. Farmers' Bulletin 780 offers detailed guidance from the Department of Agriculture.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers’ Bulletin
Division of Publications
Department of Agriculture
Exercies Emphasizes Role in Pregnant Wellness
Exercise is highlighted as crucial for the well being of pregnant individuals. The text stresses frequent movement, noting that neglecting activity could impact health outcomes for mother and child.
Deterioration of Woodlots From Heavy Pasturing
The forest service reports heavy pasturing as a primary cause of woodlot deterioration. Stock numbers and woodland composition drive damage, with young hardwoods and longleaf pine seedlings most affected. Hogs, cattle, sheep, and goats reduce reproduction by eating or trampling seedlings, especially in southern longleaf pine regions. Louisiana observations show dense seedling stands where hogs are excluded versus barren areas nearby.
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Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Louisiana
Meldy Silage Dangerous to Farm Stock
Meldy silage is dangerous to farm stock and must be disposed of so cattle cannot access it. Spoiled silage causes sickness and death in cattle and should be handled with caution and proper disposal to prevent harm.
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Dea
Feed variety and exercise improve brood sows
Experiments at North Dakota Agricultural College under Professor Shepperd show sows will gladly eat alfalfa and a mix of half barley and half shorts at 2.14 pounds daily for a 200-pound sow, with equal barley oats and bran or shorts also yielding good results. Sweeping the floor to scatter grain promoted lengthy exercise, and a varied diet with exercise reduced hairless pig risk.
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North Dakota Agricultural College
Shepperd
Profit in feeding steers in Iowa outlook
H H Kil dee of Iowa State College says feeding steers can be profitable this winter as Iowa feed lots have 50 percent fewer cattle than a year ago. He forecasts higher meat prices in spring, notes feeding yields the greatest grain margin, and assures cattle bought now will come out all right.
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H. H. Kildee
Iowa State College
Minnesota College of Agriculture
Iowa
Feed Variety of Grain for Balanced Diet
The passage argues grain alone is insufficient and recommends a variety in feeding to achieve balanced nutrition. It emphasizes not relying on a single grain and suggests combining multiple types for better results.
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