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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1904
Page
3
The article describes a matching blouse and bolero waist with a belt in antique green taffeta and white mull, noting various fabrics like silk and linen. It provides yardage for sizes and advises on design details such as plaits, elbow sleeves, and a separate bolero to be worn over a draped belt. Pattern 4753 fits bust measures 32 to 40 inches.
A magazine fragment outlines costuming and home craft trends. It covers a lavender potpourri recipe with spices, the New Handkerchief Kimonas featuring delicate center motifs and a shawl collar, and a spree of shawls echoing 1880s and 1860s styles. It highlights pale pinks, blues, creams, and natural fabrics, plus a May Manton corset cover pattern with Paris muslin and lace trim requiring 1 1/2 yards of fabric for a medium size.
It describes soaking fruit cake for tenderness, washing with warm suds containing ammonia to preserve polish, and using a wire dishcloth to prevent sticking. It offers a hay-water stain remover and advises bread loaves be cooled on end wrapped in cloth to keep steam and crust tender.
Lace on Hate presents a description of period hats featuring point d esprit and blonde lace applied to Marie Antoinette style designs. One piece shows lace draping over the brim with a crown garland of small flowers and a back lace fall, while another dainty white chip hat features tucked lawn brim embroidery and pink satin ribbon rosettes.
Old Fashioned Pot Pourri describes layering rose leaves with salt in a bowl for five days turning twice. Then add powdered alum and stick sumac, rest another week, stir daily, and mix with dried materials before placing in a pot pourri jar.
Description of a Prov fusion wardrobe featuring rose and pale blues with pinks, embellishments like a silver cross and jeweled heart pendant, mohair pongee cape, and eighteenth century brocaded mules for indoor wear, noting a general avoidance of discord in dress.
Preface by mending small holes in nateen then wash ends with warm water and boiled soap. Plunge the quilt and squeeze until the water runs dirty, repeat in fresh suds until clean. Rinse through many changes of water, squeeze, shake, and hang to dry. When dry the quilt remains soft and full. avoid a mangle or it will look flat.
Durable coats for young girls described as warm and charming with simple design and inverted plait giving moldable fullness. Garment can be worn open or closed, with optional cate lar, and tailored for medium size 10 years using 21 or 24 yards of fabric per 62 inches width.
A Oregon reader argues gape worms do not cause gapes in chickens and shares a 50 year poultry perspective from Indiana Missouri and Oregon. The letter-writers discuss worm biology, feeding, housing, and a remedy plan while the journal Dragonflies an explanatory response from Farmers' Review advising on the red worm Syngamus Trachealis and the need for grit in fowl diets.
The piece warns that cow illness and reduced milk may stem from dirty water in troughs or stagnant ponds. It describes mossy, undrained troughs fed by rills, urging elimination of dirty water sources and promotion of clean, flowing water in pastures with windmill access.
The article reviews debates on boosting butter fat in milk. It notes experiments show a cow's butter fat cannot exceed its normal capacity, though isolated tests suggested possible gains. Recent trials reduce fat by poor feeding, showing fat drops from 4 percent to 8.25 percent. It concludes normal feeding cannot produce abnormally rich milk by richer rations.
A dairy expert argues that profits hinge on cleanliness from milking to handling. He warns dirt is pervasive in water air and surfaces and even small kitchen residues taint milk, cream, and butter, urging strict sanitation practices to separate successful dairymen from failures.
The article notes corn varieties differ greatly in characteristics and that success depends on choosing right types for specific fields. It discusses upland and lowland adaptations and the need for data, urging ongoing study by agricultural colleges and bright students to improve yields across seasons.
The article explains arsenical poisons as an effective control for the potato bug but notes farmer concerns about poison. It highlights Paris green as a common method, dust or liquid, and describes mixing one pound Paris green with 160 gallons water or with 80 pounds air slaked lime for dusting. It advises applying when dew is on the vines and recommends hand-picking for those avoiding poisons.
Green manure crops improve exhausted land by adding humus and nitrogen when turned under. Clover is best in the North, with cow peas and soybeans as strong alternatives. rye offers fiber but little nitrogen, aiding mainly soil mechanics.
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