Iowa youth organize big extension program for farming
In Iowa more than 18 000 farm boys and girls study agriculture or domestic science under Iowa State College extension. Mills county leads with 900 enrollees. Wright about 600. others in several hundred. The program covers acre corn growing, single ear trials, vegetable gardening, bread baking, and sewing with contests and prizes. The effort aims to raise interest in farm life, community work, and education, with guidance from Ames.
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Iowa
Extension
Iowa State College
Mills County
Wright County
Page County
Appanoose County
Appanoose
State College
Ames
Washington
United States
Fighting the Quack Grass in Small Grain Fields
Quack grass has begun spreading in late summer across small grain fields and pastures. Focus on stopping its spread with timely control measures, as quack grass advances faster in certain crops yet persists in pastures and oats. Implement available control practices to curb its growth.
Tests at County Demonstration Farms
Germination tests completed at county demonstration farms run by the Iowa State College extension show some poor seed used this spring despite efforts for better seed corn. The corn stand is better than the average year. Sixteen farms are in Allamakee Black Hawk Cherokee Henry Koscius sky Lee Mahaska Mills Mitchell Page Plymouth Pottawattamie Scott Bronx Woodbury Worth counties, representative of conditions across Iowa.
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Extension Department
Iowa State College
Allamukee
Black Hawk
Cherokee
Henry
Kosisuth
Lee
Mahaska
Mills
Mitchell
Page
Plymouth
Pottawattamie
Scott
Bronx
Woodbury
Worth Counties
Iowa
Hints on Mushrooms Stewed With Cream and Drying Tips
Mushroom guidance from a lifetime Waldorf kitchen. Fresh button mushrooms are praised for delicate flavor, with steps for stewing in butter and cream, toasting on crusts, and finishing with a white sauce. Also includes drying method for later use, storing in clean bags and rehydrating in gravy or stock.
Chicken Pot Pie Fricasse Style Instructions
Singe clean and cut chickens for fricasse and simmer in boiling water until tender. Roll biscuit dough into strips to line a pot, line with crust, layer ham potatoes and chicken, and top with more crust. Add butter, simmer an hour, and serve with gravy poured around the dish.
A Clothes Sprinkler From a Reeded Jar Cover
A reader describes a homemade sprinkler for clothes using a metal screw cap with porcelain removed, six tiny holes drilled, and a rubber ring to seal. Fill a jar three quarters full of water and press the cap on. it saves time and effort versus the old method.
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McCall's Magazine
Velvet Sashes Show Rich Velvet and Gold Embroidery
Velvet sashes feature gold cloth lining and gold embroidery on ends and square bows. Medallions circle the girth at the front. Soft chitton sashes come in two shades for a changeable look. Ends vary with tagsela knotted fringed lace styles.
Chocolate Bar Recipe Classic Steps
Simple dessert recipe lists ingredients and steps to make chocolate bars. Includes sugar butter eggs flour milk melted chocolate walnuts vanilla. Bake in a dripping pan and cut into bars when done.
Broom the Dishes Says Use Whisk Broom for Cleaning
The Ladies' Home Journal advises using a whisk broom to clean dishes instead of scraping with a knife. It notes the broom should be dampened occasionally and stored near the table after clearing.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Tea Stains Cleaning Tip From Old Time Advices
Tea stains on a tablecloth napkin or frock should be soaked in sour milk as soon as possible and washed out in soap suds.
How to Make Swiss Cake From Suburban Life
A biscuit style recipe describes mixing batter with butter and sugar, adding egg yolks and milk, folding in sifted flour with baking powder, flavoring with vanilla and lemon, then folding in stiff egg whites. Bake in a tube pan for 30 to 45 minutes until a broom splint comes out clean. Adding mince meat yields a fruit cake. using three deep tins yields a fine layer cake.
Novel ironing table folds to compact chair design
A New Jersey inventor created a hybrid ironing table and chair that folds flat for storage. The unit features a hinged ironing board top attached to the chair, an extra back leg for support, and a raised iron holder. When not in use it serves as a chair or table and can rest on a kitchen surface or window sill.
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New Jersey
Iti
Potato Timbale Recipe Notes
A recipe fragment describes heating two pounds of mashed potatoes with butter and eggs, seasoning with salt and pepper, lining a mold, and forming a potato timbale. A filling of chopped beet, ham, and seasoning is placed inside, then covered with remaining potato and baked briefly. Served with brown sauce.
Apple and Rhubarb Pudding Recipe
Soak fine bread crumbs in milk until saft then butter a dish and layer with pared sour apples and thin rhubarb slices. Beat eggs with sugar and mix into milk and crumbs, pour over fruit, bake in hot water until custard sets and apples tender. Serve with meringues and a dab of apple jelly in each ring.
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Manderaia
Washing Lace Curtains With Starch And Finish
Instruction for washing lace curtains without stretchers. Wash and starch lightly, hang lengthwise, align opposite scallops, and pull straight. The starch bonds halves, no ironing needed, only pressing scallops.
Shirred Oysters Recipe Steps
Chop twenty five large oysters beat two eggs add two tablespoonfuls cream enough dry bread crumb to thicken and season. Fill cleaned shells with mixture dot top with butter and bake in a hot oven until lightly browned.
Spanish Onion Salad Palate Pleases Palate
A cold boiled Spanish onion makes an excellent palade when sliced and dressed with oil and vinegar in the usual manner.
Wild Ride Aboard Freight Train Leads to Daring Escape
A passenger sneaks onto a freight train and rides across car roofs with conductor and Jimmie guiding him. The journey passes through tunnels with smoke thick and icy dangers. The tale chronicles the perilous climb between cars and a warning about blizzards from the lake shore.
Automatic stokers on railroads face mixed results
In the United States several automatic stokers have been trialed with limited success. Two main types exist the overfeed and the underfeed. The first developed has seen wide testing while the underfeed shows promise. The Chesapeake & Ohio built the first unit about a dozen years ago and it evolved from hand firing to steam motor. Today 22 locomotives on the Chicago Burling ton & Quincy and two on the Iowa Central use automatic stokers. On a Burling ton trip a stoked locomotive hauled 600 tons more than rated at 17 1 2 mph with steady steam pressure and little fire cleaning needed. D F Crawford proposes an underfeed stoker designed to run the locomotive for all tasks without smoke. Continuous operation and integration into the locomotive are key goals.
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L. H. Pammel
Iowa State College Experiment Station
Ames
England
Prof
Spillman
J. S. Cates
Office of Farm Management
Cates
Gilmore
Modale
Mason City
Berger Vs. Dilly
Sioux City
Boone
Frank M. Bristol
William S. Bond
Fort Madison
Griswold
Edward L. Schaud
Nora Springs
Queen’s College
Kingston
Canada
Otis Kinkaid
Blencoe
Esther Peterson
Lochrville
Marengo
Iowa City
John Williams
Bedford
Creston
Osceola
Greenfield
Guthrie County
Frank Morgan
Kent
Kendall Young
Webster City
Veterans of the First Iowa Infantry
Keokuk
Wilson’s Creek
J. S. Clark
Des Moines
Morse
F. A. Bircnek
J. B. Shepard
Patrick Row
Benjamin Akers
State Board of Medical Examiners
Oskaloosa City
Iowa
Rockhill
Burbank
United States
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Iowa Central
Burlington 2
D. F. Crawford
Pennsylvania Lines
Pittsburg
First Steel Rails Turned Out in New South Wales
Australian steel rails. The first steel rails ever rolled in Australia were recently produced at a New South Wales iron works.
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New South Wales
Iros
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