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Riverdale Pointer

Location

Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 16, 1924

Page

12

Paris to American fashion shift in spring silhouettes

A fashion writer notes the transfer of Paris design influence to American women with a gradual embrace of new ideas. Skirt lengths settle around ten inches above ground here, while Paris favors eight inches. tailored suits are popular but not mandatory in the United States. silhouettes remain slim and evolving toward bouffant later, with elaborate trimming and varied footwear styles and colors dominating daytime and evening wear.

Paris New York Herald-Tribune Paris Couturier Atlantic France

Cost Facts Help in Making Plans

Detailed cost of production figures from a 1920 21 22 Minnesota study on 24 Cottonwood Jackson county farms show how to organize crops and livestock for maximum net returns. Regular visits collected labor needs crop data livestock and other farm factors to guide efficient enterprise choices and market adjustments.

United States Department of Agriculture University of Minnesota Cottonwood Jackson Minnesota

Decorated Footwear Sets Evening Style Tone This Season

The article details evening shoe fashion emphasizing color matching with dress, white suede slippers with lizard trim favored for country clubs, and a focus on buckles in steel bronze enamel and jeweled heels. It notes new buckle motifs like wings butterflies circlets and snakes, jeweled heels, sheer chiffon stockings in beige tones, and colors such as gazelle albino rose and blonde.

White Shoes Take Spotlight In White Footwear Trend

White kid leather and white fabric shoes are described as set to be worn broadly by women when the white shoe season arrives. The discussion notes white kid leather as the leading white footwear material.

Lambing Time Stewardship for Ewes and Early Weaning

The article advises providing a dry, sheltered lambing area and attentive supervision to ensure lambs dry and nurse promptly after birth. It recommends castrating and docking on the first sunny day after 10 to 14 days, feeding generously, and marketing lambs around 70 pounds before June 15.

Seed Buying Warns Farmers to Choose Reliable Firms

Farmers and gardeners are urged to buy seed with eyes open from reputable firms. A dependable seller with a history of square dealing is worth more than pursuing quick profits for a season or two.

Fix Up Chicken House for Time Savings and Production

Two or three days spent building a droppings board and adding convenient roosts and a poultry self feeder will soon repay the effort through time saved and increased production.

Sudan Grass Emerges as Essential Emergency Crop

Sudan grass, introduced to the United States in 1909 by the USDA, is praised as a valuable emergency hay and pasture crop for New Jersey and beyond. It outyields millet, suits livestock well, and can provide two harvests per season on good corn land, with potential yields of two and a half to four tons per acre.

United States Department of Agriculture Africa Sudan New Jersey H. R. Cox New Jersey State College of Agriculture

Advice for Farmers on Soil, Drainage and Publicity

The article emphasizes practical farming wisdom. It notes a well-equipped farm with a modern pump as valuable and stresses using publicity to boost business. It discusses barley performance on well drained soils and compares clover hay varieties, then mentions sowing clover with oats for hay growth.

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