Lingerie Hats and Fashion Trends Of The Season
Lingerie hats feature exquisite lace and floral touches with new weave straws, netted shapes, and linen models for outing and mourning wear. Accessories include cockades rosettes and wings. the wardrobe emphasizes tidy construction, practical cleanliness, and coordinated waist and gown styling with updated sailor blouses and Eton looks. A recipe section covers strawberry baskets with whipped cream and advises serving timing to maintain pastry shape.
Household Tips From A Historic Scraps Page
A compact guide lists practical cleaning and cooking tips. It advises making starch with soapy water to prevent iron sticking and mashing potatoes by pushing through a wire sieve. It also covers removing stains from linen with boiling water, pudding steaming plaits, sugar in water to blanch greens, lamp wick soaking in vinegar, and ink removal with dry salt.
Tucked Sailor Blouse Description and Yardage
Textile description of a pale blue linen sailor blouse with box plaits, tucked fronts, puffed sleeves, and a white collar with embroidery. Includes design details for yachting use in serge or mohair. Specifies materials: 434 yards 21 in, 34½ yards 27 in, or 24½ yards 44 in, plus embroidery and applique yardage.
Strawberry Baskets With Cream Filling
Recipe notes describe making strawberry baskets by mixing 4 cup butter with sugar and egg, folding in flour and vanilla, baking thin rounds, then shaping while warm into boat shapes. Fill with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored, plus strawberries, and serve at once.
The Millinery of Summer Fashion Trends
The article notes hat styles for summer with equal appeal to large and small hats. Semi dress looks favor small to medium turbans or sailors, but picture hats gain popularity with the ongoing drooping shoulder looks. Green emerges as a key color and combinations with pink, blue, brown, or ecru are highlighted. The lingerie hat in a baby shape with a ribbon bow is praised for a girlish touch, suited to youthful wear with light frocks.
Told in Her Boudoir Fancy Dress Trends of Summer
Fancy stocks are simpler this year with dainty turnovers and dainty pale blue velvet flowers trimming hats. New pongee fabrics and chiffon sleeve frills dominate, with high corsages and tucker necklines. The Misses Box Eton features natural pongee banded with stitched silk, wide sleeves, and box plaits for a drooping line.
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Eton
Smartest Facing for Hats with Lace Trimmed Net
A hat facing crafted from net is cut to fit the hat and covered with many narrow lace frills. Valenciennes lace is preferred for this lacing. If paired with a linen suit, a vest, collar, and half sleeves edged with flouncing lace create a harmonious, fashionable look.
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Valenciennes
Handsome blouse styles with pale green satin and lace
A detailed description of a versatile blouse design in pale green messaline satin. It features a tucked chiffon yoke, Chinese embroidery trim, and Lierre lace on white edging. Materials include specific yardages for sizes and components like tucking for the yoke and allover lace for saffe ang and frills.
Wragg Invites Reader Ideas and Inquiries in Iowa Column
Mr Wragg invites readers to submit new ideas for the department and welcomes correspondence seeking information on discussed subjects. Address M J Wragg Waykee Iowa.
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Wragg
M. J. Wragg
Waukee
Iowa
Early Cut Hay Costs and Benefits Revealed by Maine Trial
A Maine Experiment Station trial compared early bloom cut hay with ten days past bloom harvest. Early cut hay showed higher digestible nutrients per acre: 66 lb protein, 172 lb carbohydrates, 13 lb fat, and greater digestible nutrient totals, despite a small total dry hay weight difference. The findings urge farmers to start haying early to maximize feed value.
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Maine Experiment Station
The Cow and Hen as Core of Domestic Prosperity
The author extols cows and hens as the most useful reliable and profitable domestic assets. A well cared for dairy or poultry enterprise marks a responsible husbandman who stays honest and financially prudent, while the text asserts this wisdom as a complete sermon in brief.
Millet Hay and Millet Forage Feeding Cautions
Millet hay and millets yield well but can be poisonous if misused. Cornell researchers note millets fed properly can be safe and valuable. Begin with small green rations for animals unused to fresh forage and cut millet soon after blooming. Advise mixing with other fodder and sow thickly and early to ensure good hay yield.
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Bailey
Cornell Government 1
Hermes
Tully
Locust Adaptation Across Iowa Minnesota Regions
The article discusses how honey locusts grow best in southeastern Minnesota and struggle in southwestern Minnesota, while black locust extends further north toward Minneapolis. It covers seed sourcing near northern limits, the Inermis thornless form, seed treatment with hot water, and cautious transplanting from nursery rows after one year.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Des Moines
Iowa
Hay harvesting delay harms feed value and profits
Three quarters of hay in the region was cut too late, allowing grasses to mature and divert nutrients into seed development. Late cutting reduces feeding quality to woody fiber with little nutrition, as seen in Northern Missouri meadows left uncut. farmers delayed harvest by a month, causing losses to producers and consumers.
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Stdel
Missouri
FARM NOTES ON BREEDERS AND FARM PRACTICES
Guidance on animal breeding and farm management stresses patience in horse breeding and the value of uniform creamery butter. It notes hog herd management, harness fitting, water needs, and timing for best farm results. It also covers feeding ratios, digestion, and market-ready stock considerations.
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Milia
Southern states face fertilizer drain on farms
Farmers across Louisiana Mississippi Alabama and Georgia used 466000 tons of fertilizer in 1901 nearly double the decade before. Despite high costs the southern soil shows little fertility gain, and systematic dairying is urged to curb this drain. The cow is seen as yielding more cash than cotton.
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Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
South
Weeds And Farmer Education By Prof Waldron
A North Dakota study urges farmers to learn weed life and habits to reduce crop loss. Education and recognition of common weeds like Canada thistle and wild morning glory enable better rotation, targeted removal, and easier eradication before fields are ruined.
Value of Wood Ashes as Garden Fertilizer
Wood ashes are worth twenty five cents per bushel as a fertilizer for garden and chard. Potash and other elements in ashes are wasted in barnyard manures, so save ashes for the garden. Spread ashes evenly in spring for strawberries for larger yields and better fruit. Mulch old orchards heavily in August with barnyard litter, then spread ashes over the mulch in spring and repeat yearly for abundant crops. Small fruits and vegetables benefit in appearance and productivity from good ashes.
Curing and Storing Clover Hay Tips and Practices
Reading on clover hay handling covers quick wilt, rapid raking, and forming small piles for fast curing in hot weather. It warns against spreading hay to dry long and against airing the mow, noting that closed storage reduces mold and spoilage.
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Idaho
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