Inexpensive Hammer Gown and Nursery Furnishings Spotlight
A mixed page highlights affordable fashion for women, describing a Hammer gown for those of modest means and detailing a feature on nursery decor and child care. It also includes a recipe for coffee cream and notes on fabrics and pattern trends for the season.
Wedding Journeys and Yachting Fashions of the Season
The piece contrasts wedding trip habits in upstate towns with Philadelphia as a favored destination and Washington as a bridal Mecca. It notes aging travelers revisiting Washington, and cites young couples considering seaside trips. It then shifts to yachting fashion amid America’s Cup trials, detailing a cream white English serge gown with sea green silk braid and taffeta accents, plus a pointed bodice and a dull green leghorn hat.
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Philadelphia
Fairmount Park
Washington
Mecca
Oklahoma farm grasses and nut culture in focus
The Oklahoma Experiment Station leader notes inquiries favor grasses for pasture and hay, with timothy and blue grass trials succeeding while others fail. Alfalfa stands out as best for eastern territory hay and pasture, with red, alsike and white clovers trialed. Nut culture discussion covers almonds, chestnuts, hickories, pecans, and walnuts, highlighting Paragon and Ridgely chestnuts as promising for market and noting grafting and pollination nuances.
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Grames
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Experiment Station
Kansas
Texas
Stillwater
Timothy
Johnson
Paragon
Ridgely
Illinois
Hungary
Setting Crops For Summer Feeding And Green Corn
Coleman Rural World argues field crops like corn or sorghum surpass pasture in total summer feed value even with labor costs. It urges growing green forage, especially early sweet corn, in small patchwork plantings near the barn to provide a continuous summer feed supply and ease of feeding.
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Coleman
Fungi Destroying Pines Through Insects and Disease
Fungi threaten southern pine trees beyond cultivated plants. One fungus targets older trees by entering through knots and decaying heartwood, while another travels from roots up into the trunk, causing extensive internal destruction.
Complete Fertilizer Contains Key Nutrients
A complete fertilizer includes the three essential fertilizing constituents nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash.
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Philadelphia Times
Farmers’ Review
E. A. Riehl
Mississippi River