Summer fashion sparks and lace caps in airy outfits
The article surveys the bright fashion mood with lace nets boudoir caps and summer dresses. It notes garlands of ribbons flowers and voile fabrics and highlights two dresses: a lavender voil e dress with kimono sleeves and hemstitched skirt and a border material frock with oriental inspired neck and coronet lace details. Plaiting returns as a key trend with multi tiered skirts and plain bodices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Voile
Georgette
New Silk Elbow Gloves Feature Fluted Ruffle Detail
A pair of silk elbow gloves showcases a fluted ruffle along the seam from wrist to elbow. The design aims to lengthen the line and enhance the illusion of slenderness.
Warm light completing a home from within
A reflection on what makes a house a home beyond décor. The author likens interior warmth to morning sunlight, describing kind eyes, gentle tones, spontaneous smiles, and thoughtful habits that illuminate a space.
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Willliam Channing Gannet
Cookies and Dishes From a Home Kitchen
Readable cooking notes describe cookies and dishes with coconut hermits Graham pudding Bran macaroons and a ham omelet. Instructions include ingredients amounts steps and oven times for each recipe. The collection emphasizes simple home baking and pantry staples with specific measurements and methods.
Do What You Think Is Right Despite What Others Say
A reflective poem fragment muses on a difficult world and the urge to conform. It contrasts the violinist and flutist as types of people and ends with the advice to act on one's own convictions rather than heed others. The passage notes the futility of changing others and champions personal integrity.
Conserves and preserves for winter shelves
The article describes making plum, tomato, strawberry, cherry and grape conserves and preserves. It lists ingredients, ratios, grinding methods, cooking times and canning steps to fill jars for winter use. Emphasis is on rich flavors and efficient serving sizes for households.
Control San Jose Scale by Spraying
The U S Department of Agriculture reports the best control for the San Jose scale in Arkansas using a paraffin oil emulsion. Recommendations include two dormant sprays with 2 percent oil, use soft water, thorough coverage, and spraying in cool parts of the day to avoid fruit injury. The circular is available free from Washington D C.
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United States Department
San Jose
Ozark
Arkansas
United States Department of Agriculture
Bentonville
Ark
Department
A. J. Ackerman
Washington, D. C
Buckwheat A Practical Short Season Crop
Buckwheat serves as a quick emergency crop adaptable to many states. It yields about 15 to 20 bushels per acre with good market prices, matures in 10 to 12 weeks, and can be planted as late as early July. Optimal seeding is four to five pecks per acre, drilled or broadcast, with Japanese buckwheat noted among the best varieties.
Bordeaux Mixturé Good Cure for Flea Beetles
Bordeaux Mixturé offers a remedy for flea beetles damaging potato beet, bean, tomato, cabbage and beet leaves. Apply standard Bordeaux mixture with arsenate of lead at about 2.5 pounds per 50 gallons, soaking both leaf sides to target beetles that feed on top and bottom surfaces. Use extension rods or power sprayers with multiple nozzles to cover rows effectively.
Guineas: Males Resemble Females Yet Distinguish by Calls
In all varieties guineas show strong visual similarity between sexes. Males have heavier comb and wattles, coarser heads, and walk on tiptoe when excited. Males emit a shrieked call while females produce two notes saying suck-wheat buck-wheat.
Best Feed to Produce Profitably Hens
The text argues that judging a hen’s value requires a ration enabling her to display capacity. Hens previously unprofitable due to poor feed became profitable layers once the ration was corrected.
Duty of Hog Grower to Watch His Herds
United States Department of Agriculture cautions swine growers to monitor herds from farrowing to market. Hog cholera remains the major threat though serum use reduced losses about 60 percent. other diseases like anthrax epilepsy gastroenteritis necrobacillosis pleurisy pneumonia poisoning swine plague tuberculosis and worms can mimic cholera. Any deviation in gait appetite or digestion warrants action and possibly a veterinarian.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Georgia Girl Wins Over Boys in Raising Swine
Lois Duncan, twelve, of Boys-tos Ga, won the grand prize in the Southeastern fair pig contests in Atlanta. She captured the championship with the Poland China boar Duncan Liberator and earned second prize with another entry. Her pigs were raised under her sole direction and care.
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Tos
Atlanta
Duncan Liberator
Most Careful Attentions for Eggs During Summer
The text notes eggs are secured in March to May and require careful attention June to August. A Storr's contest shows a welt tied hen should lay within seven of the March May total in June August. Feed costs about 10 cents per month, lower in summer. It asks if one can overlook summer feeding given seven of ten eggs are produced March 1 to September 1.
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Storr
Corn Mixture Builds Milk Yield With Clover or Alfalfa
Corn is more fattening than milk producing, yet a modest corn share helps. Feeding a generous amount of bundle corn with clover or alfalfa hay provides good results. Ground husked corn improves efficiency in the ration.
Hen Keeps Laying If Given Proper Care and Feed
Advice on improving poultry productivity through homegrown grains clean water light grit and daily feed plus exercise and a scratch mix. Emphasizes that attentive hens work harder and yield better output with proper attention and nutrition.
Disease blamed for turkey losses in infectious blackhead outbreak
The turkey industry faces heavy losses as many birds die from an infectious disease called blackhead. No cure exists, threatening profits and production.
Farmers Guide to Profitable Poultry Culling
Extension poultryman Phil H. Hayes from Oklahoma A and M College explains a yearly culling program to boost flock productivity. He advises mid mating period, roughly July to early October, to remove poor layers and favor pullets with strong body, eyes, and comb.
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Phil H. Hayes
Extension Poultryman
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Quality Eggs Sell High in Summer Markets
Poultry experts advise selecting for quality as egg prices rise in summer. Remove male birds after breeding ends and deter setting hens, gather eggs twice daily, store cool and dry, and ship in clean cases with proper fillers. Keep nests clean and dry, avoid moldy fillers, and shade eggs during transit to station.
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R. B. Cray
New Jersey State College
Ducks and Drakes Handling Guide
The text instructs to grasp grown ducks and drakes by the neck firmly when picking them up. It warns against lifting by the body to avoid harming birds and notes potential injuries to wings or legs. It allows carrying three or four ducks or more with two hands in front of the body and discourages fear of causing harm.
Uniformity Key In Shipping Live Birds
Shipping live birds requires sorting by size age color and sex and avoiding crowded coops. Buyers pay more for uniformity in color and size since consistent appearance appeals to the eye much like well presented food appeals to diners.
Poor Place for Chicks
A brief note warns that the ground where last year's chicks died is unsuitable for this year's brood. It urges moving the coops and brooders to safer ground to protect poultry.
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Terial
Western Newspaper Union
Trnion
San Jose Scale
Georgia
Southeastern States
Lois Duncan
Turkey
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