Swapped the children in a country city exchange tale
Alberta Platt recalls a Granby family’s plan to swap children with a city family for two months. The city kids enjoy zoo shows and seaside adventures while the country kids learn country chores, milking cows, and riding horses under Uncle Ned Smith’s tutelage.
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Finnerton Granby
Mrs. Granby
Tom
Helen
Smith
Mabel
Edwin
Granby
Veles Granby
Ned Smith
Mr. Smith
Handling Beds and Bedding in Seasonal Home Care
Renovate the bedroom this season to improve health and comfort. Beat and air mattresses weekly, renew worn hair mattresses, and use ventilated pillows to prevent dust and bacteria buildup. Choose high quality sheets, preferably linen in summer, and protect enamel or brass beds during moving. Use proper cleaning and re-lacquering methods for gilded surfaces.
How to Preserve Pineapples for Preserves
The guide explains trimming the fruit with a sharp knife and scissors, slicing thinly, removing dark edges, then weighing fruit against sugar pint for pint. Make a thin syrup with minimal water, boil first, add fruit, test readiness with a fork, and seal while the syrup boils.
How to Scale Fish Properly
Step by step method for scaling fish without a mess. Submerge fish in water in a dishpan to keep scales contained. After scaling, pour off water and transfer fish to the garbage pail. Boil briefly then cool to remove scales easily, reducing labor and keeping the kitchen tidy.
How to Hang a Skirt Properly
Instructions stress meticulous seam alignment to ensure a straight hang. Front breadth seams demand extra care, with tucks aligning upward into the belt and not deviating sideways. Any outward or inward curving seams spoil the skirt’s drape.
Home Remedy for Burns Moist Paste Eases Pain
A simple antiseptic approach suggests moistening a lump of starch into a soft paste and covering the burn with it. Wrap it with cloth or medicated cotton and keep the starch wet to relieve pain. Baking soda offers a similar immediate effect when used the same way.
Revival method for drooping potted plants
Place the plant overnight in a water-filled vessel so the water reaches nearly two-thirds to the rim of the pot. This helps revive plants when the soil has hardened and lost its moisture-absorbing capacity.
The Hardy Brown Swiss Cattle Breed Profile
A Wiscon sin dairyman summarizes Brown Swiss cattle from a Breeder's Gazette article. Noting large sturdy form and chestnut shades with distinctive facial and lip markings, the breed shows strong hereditary integrity and valuable dairy traits. Swiss cows mature well, produce up to sixty pounds daily, and remain profitable into old age.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Green County
Wis
Alps
Plan of Plain Ditch Cleaner for Road Maintenance
The ditch cleaner consists of a guide plank and a moldboard with bracing, shod with an iron plate. A light platform, a chain over the moldboard, and a weight over the front help give a smooth, even ditch bottom. Driver weight shifts adjust to mud or high spots to keep slopes safe and water flowing.
Lice Prevention Method For Berkshires Noted
A prominent breeder describes a herd of 200 to 250 Berkshires and a new lice control scheme. He uses deep fresh water swill pools with lime, adds weekly refined crude oil to a surface coat, and reports the oil both coats the hogs and kills lice and nuts while keeping skin in good condition.
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Berkshires
Barley For Swine In The Feed Ration
A prosperous swine breeder notes that barley can substitute for corn in many pig rations. Tests at several stations show barley performing nearly as well as corn, with barley often yielding high quality pork and sometimes surpassing corn in carcass quality.
Cape Cod road experiment uses oil and sand mix
Massachusetts highway commission will test a new road building method on Cape Cod where stone is scarce. A heated Texas crude oil asphalt mix will coat sand laid by a road machine, with a second oil coat after two weeks. The surface is disked, rolled, and lightly sanded to absorb excess oil. Earlier similar work showed satisfactory results.
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Massachusetts Highway Commission
Cape Cod
The
Highway Commission
Cherokee land value and road impact in Cherokee County
The Gaffney Ledger argues for highway improvement, noting Cherokee county land sold at public sale for 16 to 37.50 dollars per acre, twelve miles from the county seat. It says macadam roads could push values to 50 to 100 dollars per acre and that investing half a million dollars in roads could raise farm land values by a million dollars, urging locals to act before remaining in the mud.
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Gaffney
S. C
Cherokee County
Eutcry
Cherokee
Good Roads Movement Gains Steam in Large States
Postoffice department officials applaud the movement for highway improvements driven by liberal rural free delivery funding. They expect faster road upgrades in dense states as routes expand, with good roads becoming a condition for new service. The rural delivery program is said to boost farm property values.
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Postoffice Department
The
Union
Three Gravel Road Classes Devised for Grand Rapids
The plan divides gravel roads in Grand Rapids Michigan into three classes by traffic levels heavy medium and light. Each class will use gravel graded by stone content and screening care to maximize benefit while minimizing cost.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
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