Keep Swine Healthy Correct Trouble With Sow Iron Dose
A veterinary note advises improving sow forage to stop nursing piglets diarrhea. Overfeeding corn after farrowing and dirty troughs trigger scouring. treat nursing pigs with 15 to 20 grains of copperas in the slop and lime water as preventive.
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Alexander
Handy potato marker eases marking fields for early crop
A farmer explains a simple, mobile potato marker built from a wheelbarrow frame and hinged pine runners. A center wheel creates three clear soil marks across rough ground, folding easily around roots and stumps, with sections removable when not in use.
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G. A. Randall
Improve Your Potato Seed from Wisconsin Station
The Wisconsin experiment station advises farmers to improve seed by using pure stock, growing foundation seed separately, studying vine and tuber traits, discarding unsuitable hills, selecting seed during digging, and forming local grower groups to advance the potato industry.
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Wisconsin Experiment Station
Treatment of Cover Crops
The article advises cutting up cover crops with a disk harrow before plowing to avoid soil moisture issues. It recommends double disking the crop twice or thrice, plowing with a narrow furrow, and edging rather than inverting, then disk deeply again to prevent souring the soil.
Bourbon Day Styles Inspire Fashion From Versailles to America
New York designers compare modern fashion to Bourbon era gowns inspired by Mme Vigee le Brun Fragonard and Rose Bertin. Articles describe flowing skirts full petticoats tight square necklines lace ruffles and velvet ribbons, with adaptations for contemporary life and aesthetics.
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New York
du Barry
Mertie Antoinette
Pompadour
America
Rose Bertin
Marie Antoinette
Mme. Vigee le Brun
Versailles
Fragonard
Morgan Collection
Mr. Frick
Fifth Avenue
Screen for Cakes and Muffins on the Lawn
The article notes flies trouble tea settings on lawns or porches. It suggests using lace covers for plates of sandwiches muffins and sweets to keep insects away. It mentions imitation lace covers cost 1.75 dollars and real lace costs more. It adds that women who can make filet lace could craft such covers.
The Most Convenient Veils With Elastic Edge
The article praises veils with an elastic run through the upper edge for quick adjustability. It notes large veils can be adjusted swiftly and fall gracefully, while new filadora and hexagon weave veils feature deep edge points, longest at the front, adding graceful style to simple outfits.
Gloves With Frills for Elegant Winter Wear
New silk gloves match long coats and dresses with tiny contrasting color frills at the top and along the wrist. Frills in white gloves appear in navy blue or black, pairing with sand putty and pale champagne tones. Frills are woven silk plaited in fine side plaits and secured with snaps.
Colored Handkerchiefs Describe Colored Crepe de Chine Options
Handkerchiefs with color are common now with many crepe de chine options in pale yellows pinks violets and blues. Some feature colored borders or colored embroidery.
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