Learn to Sew Four Types of Seams and Tailoring Tips
Iowa State College Extension Dept offers sewing lessons on four seam types including overcasting and felled seams. Step by step guidance covers edge finishing, basting, thread choices, and stitch direction. Also includes notes on the French seam and garment hemming for shirts, undergarments, and dresses. A separate section discusses cow pox in cows with advised milking hygiene and treatment using hypo-sulphite wash.
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S. Knowles
Iowa State College Extension Department
Columbus City
Iowa
Arranging Farm Buildings For Efficient Farm Layout
A guide urging farm owners to map or sketch the farmstead to minimize daily travel. Emphasizes aligning fields with the barn and other facilities, rotating crops, and grouping equal quality land to improve convenience and efficiency.
Farm layout and pest control for wheat worm in Iowa fields
A historical guide notes control methods for the wheat head army worm with emphasis on early plowing, clean culture, and late fall pasturing to starve larvae. It describes moth life cycles, second brood timing, and building placement to aid farms in Iowa, including windbreaks, water access, and orchard planting timing.
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Iowa
Timothy
Army Worm Watch Urged By Iowa Farmers This Spring
A Washington department bulletin warns army worms may injure wheat and timothy heads in a rainy spring or early summer after a dry year. Iowa farmers should prepare now to prevent damage next season, as control measures focus on reducing reoccurrence and delaying outbreaks.
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Washington
Iowa
Towa Agricultural Experiment Station
Hang Up the Shelled Corn for Safe Seed Storage
After shelling and grading, place corn in burlap sacks with at most a half bushel per sack. Hang sacks in a dry ventilated place to prevent seed loss in damp springs. Avoid large sacks stored in damp corners. Keep seed in good condition by proper hanging storage.
Practical Alfalfa Planting on Hillside Pasture
A farmer asks when to break and how deep to till for alfalfa and whether to mix with another crop. Prof Hughes from Iowa State College advises eight to ten tons of well rotted manure per acre in early spring, plow five to six inches deep after frost, disk and harrow to seed by August 15, inoculate with 150 to 200 pounds per acre of soil from a vigorous alfalfa field, harrow in, plant twenty pounds of pure alfalfa seed one to one and a half inches deep using a drill, and use the American variety.
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Woodbury County
H. D. Hughes
Iowa State College of Agriculture
JHC Manure Spreader and THC Service Ad
Local dealer promotes JHC Manure Spreader Kemp 20th Century Corn King or Cloverleaf and THC spreader with setup and ongoing support. An advisory line touts fertilizer insight, product theory, and service backing, linking reliability to farming profitability. Mentions Boron, Chicago, and farm terms with garbled text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TILC
Honest Values in Southern LANDS for the Right Man
An advertisement touts 20000 fertile acres known as The Big Levee on a high plateau between two rivers in Mississippi. It promises favorable climate drainage and markets with potential for staple crops and specialty fruits plus strong livestock prospects. For full details contact J. Trowbridge authorized rep for Jampon Lands Bancroft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lampton
Massissippi
Gulf of Mexico
J. Trowbridge
Jampon Lands Bancropt
Endorsing Foley's Honey and Par Compound by H Williams
An old friend from Hadar Nebraska writes that Foley's Honey and Par Compound has served him for over twenty years and he highly recommends it as a reliable cough medicine.
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Honry Kerris
Hadar Nebr
Foley
H. Williams
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Good Roads Guides
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