Transition cottons dominate summer wardrobes with dark tones
The piece urges smart shoppers to include transition cottons in wardrobes for all season wear. It highlights darker cottons in tartan plaids and solid navy black gold and dark greens with styles from sheath to casual coat dresses and spectator shirt waists. Baby checks add contrast to pastel fabrics.
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Orion
Add Pep to Meals With Sour Cream
Dairy sour cream or salad cream is being rediscovered by homemakers as a rich medium sharp cultured flavor. It suggests uses like Shrimp Chip Dip and Sour Cream Potatoes, with steps for mixing, baking, and serving.
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Tabasco
Farm Beginner Needs Financing for Startups
Beginning farmers face high capital needs, often $8,000 or more, with a sizable share borrowed from relatives or credit agencies. Expert F. J. Reiss warns against small-scale farming due to high per unit costs and prolonged debt repayment. Long-term borrowing, typically three to five years, is needed to pay for machinery and breeding stock while building volume.
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University of Ilinois
Ilinois Production Credit Association
Feldmen
F. J. Reiss
Reiss
Mastitis Still Harming Illinois Dairies Says Vet Experts
University of Illinois veterinarians note mastitis continues to cause heavy losses in dairy herds. Udders injuries from stalls to gates allow bacterial invasion. farmers should spot milk changes and udder swelling, implement herd control with a new milking order, and use strip cups to screen milk before milking.
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Illinois
University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine
Broiled Halibut Dinner With Plank Method
Learn a simple all broiled halibut recipe served with mashed potatoes tomatoes and pimiento butter sauce. Fish is cooked on a wooden plank for 20 to 25 minutes total and finished with a lemon butter glaze alongside a garden green salad with a light oil vinaigrette.
How to Avoid Ironing Pitfalls
Practical guidance on preventing starch sticking and mildew during ironing. It covers cooking starch fully, straining lumps, adding salt, ensuring garments are bone dry before dampening, cleaning the iron, washing starch out before reapplying, and using chlorine bleach to remove mildew from white linen or cotton. It also explains blotchy finishes from uneven dampening and hot irons on rayon, with remedies for cottons, linens, and rayons.
Pineland Hereford Ranch Pioneers Grass Pasture Use in Georgia
In southwestern Georgia, Pineland Hereford Ranch owned by Ed Kelley is noted for pioneering Bahia grass on native pastures. Kelley promotes grass as the best base for profitable cattle, with 250 Hereford cows and a growing industry as demand for top quality steers rises with feedlots and packers awareness. Carolton Croom is pictured with Kelley at the ranch entrance.
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Georgia
Pineland Hereford Ranch
Ed Kelley
Kelley
Mr. Kelley
Carolton Croom
Illinois researchers study nitrogen in soil chemistry
University of Illinois scientists led by Frank Stevenson study nitrogen and protein content in soils using blood serum equipment. They note nitrogen is mostly organic, tests vary with temperature and moisture, and current methods are not yet reliable. Morrow plots inform findings. untreated continuous corn soils show low amino acids for nitrogen while treated rotation plots show higher levels.
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University of Ilinois
Frank Stevenson
Stevenson
Illinois
Morrow
University of Illinois
Get Rid of Rubbish Clean Simple Way
Household incinerators offer a solution to rising garbage costs and scarce dumping space. Modern compact gas incinerators burn burnable waste from kitchen scraps to old newspapers with pedal lift tops and dial timers for automatic operation.
Frosty ideas for cooling days with citrus drinks
The article suggests citrus based coolers for hot days such as Lime Bubbler and Orange Cooler. It gives ingredients and steps for mixing lime juice sugar water and carbonated water with mint garnish and for orange sherbet with pale ginger ale. It also lists a banana milk shake recipe with bananas sugar vanilla milk and blending steps.
Caging Hens May Not Be Best Idea
A University of Wyoming poultry scientist warns against caging hens after trials at the Afton substation show floor pens outperform cages in egg output by 15 percent while cages yield higher live survival but lower overall production. George T. Davis notes Wyoming results align with other states reporting larger eggs from cages but more blemishes with floor rearing.
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University of Wyoming
Ag Aioe
Afton
George T. Davis
Wyoming
Cobalt Uses to Speed Cotton Research at USDA
Radioactive cobalt will be used by USDA scientists to accelerate studies on new cotton uses and other crops. Dr. Jett C. Arthur Jr. oversees the project in New Orleans, with a two ounce cobalt 60 supply. The research aims to test chemical and physical changes in cotton and related fibers, including dye absorption and fiber behavior under different conditions.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Jett C. Arthur, Jr
USDA
Southern Utilization Research and Development Division
New Orleans
Atomic Energy Commission
Arthur
AEC
Oak Ridge
Tenn