Harvest time tips for fruit growers by M B Hoffman
Harvest time is busy for fruit growers who must estimate crops and plan dependable pickers plus prepare baskets boxes pads nails liners and other equipment. Repair orchard roads and provide appropriate ladders and containers to minimize bruising, with bass wood ladders and rigid-walled picking crates preferred.
Males for Next Season Should Be Chosen Early
A Missouri Farmer writer urges early selection of breeding cockerels. Top performing males show greater vigor and faster growth, and should be kept for summer tracking and fall recheck. Only a half dozen of a hundred hens become suitable breeders, and vigor remains essential to offspring quality.
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Missouri Farmer
Weedy Milk Prevention Through Pasture Management
The dairy guidance notes two methods to prevent weed flavored cream. First keep cows off weedy pasture three to five hours before milking. Second provide abundant good feed so cows avoid weeds. when on good pasture they typically ignore weeds. A combination of both methods is best.
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Hoard
Ugly Duckling Colt Wins Hambletonian Prospect at Goshen
McLin the three year old trotter, known as ugly duckling, captures the Hambletonian stake race at Goshen in 2 02% and 2 02% after maiden status. Henry Thomas drives the temperamental colt to lead in both heats. Walter Cox previously developed winners such as Water Dear and his sire Laurel Hall, marking Cox as a noted trainer. Ethelinda, McLin’s dam, is by Ethel Volo and Peter the Great, adding to the lineage of the remarkable run.
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VW Hen
McClin
Goshen
N.Y
Guy McKinney
McLin
Henry Thomas
Thomas
Shirley Hanover
Walter Cox
Water Dear
Laurel Hall
Walter
Blitzie
Cox
Walter Dear
Ethelinda
Ethel Volo
Peter the Great
Kentucky
Wise and Otherwise Jumbled Aphorisms
A collage of maxims notes laziness and speech, charity at home, selective friendships, money as poison, golf as dangerous, silk stockings output rising fivefold in five years, and a whimsy question about the worm's turn.
Around the House: Handy Tips and Household Tricks
A column offers practical notes on home care. It covers making putty stick with white lead, using ribbon scraps for underwear straps, checking gas burners for sediment, washing flour sieves in soda water, and removing perspiration and scorch marks from white silk with a bicarbonate paste.
Short Cut Mock Smocking Guide With Stitches
A vintage sewing note explains factory eased gathers and stitch rows for mock smocking. It describes spacing and colors, with row patterns using back-stitching and loop-stitches and references two books by Mrs. Spears offering 25 cents each plus a free leaflet with order. Includes address 216 S Desplaines St Chicago IL.
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Spears
S. Desplaines St
Chicago, IL
Will and heart in Ruskin’s call to work
A quotation from John Ruskin urges doing all work with full effort. It says bread work requires strength and delight work requires wholeheartedness, neither done by halves, and what is not worth such effort should not be attempted.
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John Ruskin
Coronation Chair Carved by Westminster Boys
Britannica Junior notes the oak Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey bears a student’s name P Abbot who slept there on January 4 1801. The chair dates to the 14th century and rests above the Stone of Destiny brought by Edward I.
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Westminster School
P. Abbot
Westminster Abbey
Edward the Confessor
Chaucer
Isaac Newton
Britain
Scone
Scotland
Edward the First
Edward I
London
Oliver Cromwell
Westminster Hall
Cromwell
George VI
New Filet Crochet Doilies Pattern 6121 Offer
Crochet lovers can obtain Pattern 6121 from The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept at 259 W 14th St New York City. The guide includes instructions and charts for oblong and round doilies with varied sizes by cotton type and a luncheon or buffet set concept. Send 15 cents in coins or stamps with name and address and pattern number clearly written.
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Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept
14Th St
New York City
Rejoice in Others
A brief Zen like saying from Goethe praising joy found in others happiness. The maxim urges valuing others merits and sharing in their pleasure as if it were one's own.
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Goethe
Death Alone Is Certain
A compact reflection contrasts town and country life as Uncle Phil Jays notes mutual envy between farmer and city dwellers and advises manners as a social bridge. The piece closes with a stark reminder that death is certain.
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M. B. Hoffman
New York State Service
George A. Barclay
Sasha
Ruth Wyeth
Phil Jays