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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1885
Page
4
American carpetmakers showcase Glenham Wilton pieces with flowers, greenery, and oriental motifs on ivory, blue, olive, and black grounds. Rich borders feature medallions and scrollwork. many styles resemble handwork. In contrast, pasture management advice urges spring culling and early conditioning of stock for fall market readiness.
A reader asks about gloves length color and type, noting thirty button gloves for full dress and six to ten button for street wear. Colors stay muted with tan dominant and shades of yellow gray beige and mulot noted. silk gloves rise to popularity for heat. An article warns short sleeves attract attention and urges modest daytime dressing with arm coverage while acknowledging summer fashion shifts and the care of gloves.
Prof S A Knapp of Iowa Agricultural College extols red clover in the Iowa Homestead. He notes its milky composition, high dry matter, and value as hay and feed. Clover yields twelve tons of green food per acre a season and stores nutrients similar to corn for feeding livestock.
A Minnesota wheat-raiser recounts using salt on six hundred acres of spring wheat, applying about one hundred pounds per acre. He notes taller, stiffer straw, earlier heading, heavier berry yields of three to five bushels more per acre, and better grain quality. Field tests showed stripped plots lagging in growth. clover fields also benefited. Salt costs seven to eight dollars per ton delivered from Milwaukee or Chicago, sowed from June into the standing crop with a three bushel box mounted on a wagon rim.
A report to the American Pomological Society details a Virginia pear orchard at Old Dominion Fruit Growing Co. on the James River, 75 miles below Richmond. With 20,000 trees mostly Bartletts, low-headed, the farm shows dividends and profit from limited fertilization and diverse cropping.
An intelligent physician notes color blindness is rare in girls but common in boys. He concludes color blindness often stems from lack of early color education, as girls learn to distinguish every shade while boys receive no instruction, leading to apparent but not true color blindness among boys.
It is said that 90 per cent of the enormous trade between England and British India passes through the Suez Canal. Two-thirds of the business done through the canal is of Anglo Indian origin.
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