Irwinton bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 1894-1911, March 08, 1907, Image 5

Irwinton bulletin., March 08, 1907, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Text©rWPJ oj New York City.—The skeleton blouse that can be w-orn over any pretty guimpe or waist is an altogeth er satisfactory and desirable fashion of the season. Here is one that is as charming as well can be, yet abso lutely simple and that is adapted to almost every material used for in door gowns. In the illustration it is made of buff colored poplin with trimming of plain and fancy braid, while the girdle is of silk in exactly matching color, but veiling, cash- 1 \ < O* \ I 1 "W \ t J . iw>l IE, ® witty y few mere, henrietta, Panama and chiffon broadcloths are all appropriate in wool materials while almost every one of the simpler silks can be so utilized. The blouse consists of the fronts /and backs and has the great merit of >• allowing a choice in the closing, as it is so constructed that the opening can be made at either back or front ( as best liked. The fronts are extend * ed to form strap-like trimmings that are attached to the full girdle and the back portions of the waist are lapped • over onto the front at the r shoulders, so allowing the use of the ornamental buttons that are so much liked this season and that are so beautiful. The quantity of material required for the medium size is two yards twenty-one, one and three-eighth yards twenty-seven or seven-eighth Yyard forty-four inches wide with > seven yards each of plain and fancy j braid and seven-eighth yard of silk I for the girdle. No Latest Fashion. Necessarily, with the handsome robes we are to wear, the hats must be large, and it is no exaggeration to say that they run up the whole scale of shapes ever worn, for one sees the bergere, the Gainsborough, the bon net Dauphin, the clociue and so on forever, until choice is impossible, if it is to be ruled by the “latest fash ion.’’ There is no latest fashion now adays, and the only thing to do is to buy just what suits one. The place for tlie small hat is with the morning tailor-made, however. \ Coiffures Lower. The Parisian coiffure is less high that it was last season, the hair be ing drawn loosely back and massed about where the traditional Greek 1 . knot is placed. Lacings of Velvet. Lacings of velvet are found as trimming, holding together panels, sleeve caps and jacket fronts. Evening Gloves. For so long a time evening gloves have been cf white kid or suede that anything else seems almost too novel. Yet there are beauty and good taste in the more recent fashion of wearing long gloves in a pale color exactly matching the delicately tinted gown. This fancy is more and more exem plified. Such colored gloves come in glace kid, in lengths of twenty but tons and more, and are extremely pretty. Women are going to the ex treme in lengths, and there seems to be no danger of overdoing the matter. Misses’ Over Waist or Jumper. Seldom has any fashion taken such a firm hold upon feminine fancy as this one of the over waist. It is adapted both to the young girl and to the woman and appears to be equally charming and attractive for both, while it can be made from a Variety of materials. This one is eminently■ simple and girlish and is quite appropriate for either silk or wool, plain or fancy material, while it can be made to match the skirt or as a separate waist as liked. In this instance plaid taffeta’is trimmed with a little fancy braid and worn over a guimpe of all over lace. But one great advantage of the waist is found in the fact that' it can be slipped on over any guimpe that the young owner may possess, those of lingerie material being well liked for the purpose, the special one being by no means obligatory. The waist consists of front and back and is fitted by means of shoul der and under-arm seams. There are tucks from the shoulder which pro vide becoming fulness and ribbons or tapes at the waist line to regulate the size. The guimpe is a plain one with front and backs and is closed invisibly at the back, while its sleeves are of moderate fulness, finished with straight bands. ' The quantity of material required for the sixteen year size is for the over waist one and three-quarter yards twenty-one, one and one-half yards twenty-seven or one and one quarter yards forty-four inches wide, with ten yards of braid; for Jhe guimpe three and one-quarter yards eighteen, three yards twenty-one or wn JMlw one and five-eighth yards thirty-six inches wide. NOVEL EEECTRII||ORSWIN(i DEVICES. Isisssl’K ? wlas f l|® & GROOMING A HORSE BY ELECTRICITY. A Peculiar Palm in Australia., This type of palm rejoices in the botanical name of Liviston Australis, but is commonly known as the cab bage palm, so called because the early Australian settlers used to eat the growing centre or heart of the trees as a vegetable. It is really an excellent vegetable, with a peculiar . , ... .. H ■,„■■■■ J • j^c- " •. \ e '.• • ■' i ’■ • . • . ■ ' '■ SIBi twwWßjjjraa walnut-like flavor, but a tree must be destroyed to supply a single dish of the so-called ‘'cabbage.” It is the most common of the Australian palms and the only one that extends from tropical Queensland down southward into Victoria. The average height is below eighty feet, but single individ uals may occasionally attain a much greater height. The tree shown here originally grew in the bush, but be came isolated by the cutting down of the surrounding trees.—Philadelphia Record. An average of 342 Hebrew’ immi grants arrive in New York City each day. Ha® _b?- ?iL IWPK -Vj/ I A SYKE TERRIER. “Whatever is the matter with Fido?" Oh. isn’t it horrid? I gave him to the laundress to wash) and she’s Etarched him.’’ —from the London Telegraph. z Tlie Home inJ insas. No Kansas home 14 together hap py without a bathtub, a bouquet of flowers on the dinner table and a Bible in the living-room. When the whole family bathes in a basin there is apt to be uncleanliness, which is close kin to the devil. When there is nothing on the table but bread and meat, no clean linen, no flowers, no shining silver, there are apt to be cross words or quarrels, and when there are Bibles only on the shelves in the dark corners of the library worldliness soon grips the occupants of any home. The average man who keeps clean inside and outside, who looks at the flower and not the dust, who reads the Bible and loves his wife pnd baby, is the best citizen. He is worth more to the community than the individual who had a mansion and a library and stocks and bonds, and inside the Satan of selfishness bigger than a woodchuck. —Chapman Advertiser. Improved Dustpan. In carrying the ordinary dustpan from one room to another some of the contents are sure to fall out. Dust being very light, the slightest wind picks'it up and blows it off the pan. This cannot happen with the one shown here. Over half the surface of the pan is covered, which helps to prevent the dust escaping. As an ad ditional aid, the inventor has added a handle; by which the dustpan can be carried anywhere without fear of los- / / _______ Dust Cannot Escape. ing any of the contents. In gathering up the dust the pan is placed in the ordinary position. By swinging the handle over to the left and the pan raised the dust drops into the recep tacle formed by the cover. In this way it is not affected by the wind. WwK ANb*- Good Movement Essential. An open, smooth, frictionless Ironing gait is just as essential as blood in heritance to the success of any stal lion as a sire of uniform trotting speed. Sctne of the best bred trotting stallions have prove disappointments as sires even after having taken records in standard time, because they’ were rough gaited, ran behind or labored in their action. Some fifteen years ago an exceedingly well bred stallion was giv en a time record at Mystic Park. His gait ’was so faulty that several horse men remarked that notwithstanding his choice breeding, they would not accept the gift of his services. This stallion was given exceptionally good opportunities, but though upwards of 20 years old, he is credited with only three that have made standard rec ords.—Horse Breeder. More About Milking Machines. One of our exchanges in referring to this machine says, as the Farmer has before stated that it is a mechanical imitation of hand milking and requires very little power. Cows take kindly to it ame let down their milk freely, anti there is no need for hand stripping, as it milks clean. A most important consideration is that it insures abso lute cleanliness in the milk. The milk passes through no tubes, goes direct from the cow into the bucket. One man or boy can attend to four ma chines and can milk from four to five cows in twenty minutes or about fif teen cows per hour, as many as eigh teen cows per hour having been suc cessfully handled. These mechanical methods will be a great boon to dairy men, not merely on the ground of cost but also because they will add greatly to the purity of the milk. Value of Skimmilk for Laying Hens. The Department of Agriculture has received a report from the West Vir ginia Experiment Station of a test made to determine the value of skim milk as against water for wetting a feed mash. In the first test, which covered 122 days, twenty-two hens fed skimmilk laid 1244 eggs, as compared with 996 eggs laid by the twenty-two hens fed mash wet with water. In the first period of the second test, sixty heps fed the skimmilk ration laid 862 eggs in thirty-seven days, as com pared with 632 eggs laid by a similar lot fed no skimmilk. In the second period the rations were reserved. The chickens fed skimmilk laid 1220 eggs in fifty-six days, as compared with 978 in the case of the let fed no skimmilk. In both experiments more eggs were produced when skimmilk was sub stituted for water for moistening the mash Under the conditions prevail ing in these experiments and with eggs selling at twenty or twenty-five cents per dozen, the skimmilk used for moistening the mash had a feeding value of from 11-2 to two cents per quart. In these trials 802 quarts of skimmilk were fed, resulting in an in crease in the egg production of 702 eggs. Some Points About Alfalfa. “It is remarkable how people to be, educated to the use of alfalfa, remarked a hay dealer who has a large retail business. “Dairymen have to have it constantly argued to them be fore they got on to its great value. Mulemen took to it more readily be cause the mule is supposed to be able to stand anything, but the horseman has refused to feed it to any consider able extent. This is due to the falla cious idea that alfalfa would unduly stimulate the digestive organs, the same as green clover. This is not true, however. Os course, you must feed it moderately until the horse gets used to it; then there is no difference be tween it and the proper kinds of hay. except that it produces more flesh and brigl*ens the coat and makes it The Department cf Agriculture has ben searching the world ever for hardy alfalfa seed for the extreme north, and on the wind-swept plains of Siberia, far to the north, where the thermome ter often stands 40 degrees below zero, and where there is little rainfall and little snow professor N. H. Hanson has discovered a variety of alf-D" ■ 1 varieties cf clover which Secretary Wil. son believes will be of great wide t^r the dry land areas of the West. The alfalfa is extremely hardy and bears a yellow flower. Cows Hold up the Farm. Notwithstanding what has been said about the value of the legumes, one should not be led to believe for a mo ment that all of the nitrogen which they contain is gathered from the air and hence is pure gain. The fact is that the richer the farm and the greater the amount of stable manure and nitrogenous chemical man ures applied, the less will be the net gain byway of the atmospheric, nitro gen acquired, it has. for example, been abundantly demonstrated that the legumes in the presence of an ample supply of easily assimilable nitrogen from the atmosphere. On this account the importance of the legumes on a well managed farm is probably less as a gatherer of nitrogen than as a soil improver and a saver of grain bills — points which apparently in the last ten years have been given relatively little attention. That wise old teacher. Prof. Levi Stockbridge, lost no opportunity to im press upon his students the fact that the cow should be made to pay a profit regardless of the manure, and that the farmer who kept cows merely as man ure producing machines might justly be anxious about his balance sheet. The ideal condition of New England agriculture would be one under which the need of commercial fertilizers might be eliminated by the develop ment of a profitable line cf animal husbandry, which should make the farm practically self-sustaining. This condition is, perhaps, most nearly reached when butter and swine con stitute the chief marketable products of the farm. Egg. milk and grass farms, for ^ample, are continually parting wit||yge quantities of plant food.—Dr. Wheeler. Washington County, R. Treatment. A correspt^Bnt of the Rural Maga zine gives sons excellent advice on the winter care fowls. We made an extract from his article: "The warmer the house, the more necessary it is that there be no cold drafts: for fowls that are accustomed to and kept An a warm temperature, catch cold mock easily than fowls that have become hardened to a rather low temperature. Knot boles and cracks I cause drafts; drafts usually cause i colds: colds, frequently develop into ■ roup: and every cne who has ever had experience at all with roup, knows what a dread disease it is. Once it gets hold of a flock of poultry it is next to impossible to eradicate the dis : ease without sacrificing the greater I part of the flock. If your house contains earthen floors ; (and we have found them to be above I par as compared with other kinds), I all the dropping and filth and two or ! three inches of the old dirt should be i removed. Allow a few days for the ■ dirt then expected to the air to become ; thoroughly dry. and then bring in enough fresh soil or sand and gravel, to raise the floor of the house up to i the height of r.t least six inches more than that of the surrounding earth on i the outside. Before cold^^ther sets in perma- I nently. put, than twelve to ! fourteen imhS^^BjciOd dry litter of some kind all ot^^M^or i the exer • ising apartmer^^^W nay like j a rather largeM^B^^ of material to some, but a fev^^Hhdfuls do not make । a litter by any means, and it is im ; possible to have too much litter on { the floor. The fowls like to hunt and ; scratch in this material, especially if l/it is replaced with fresh quite fre • quently; and by scattering all their ■ grain feed in it, little difficulty should Ibe experienced in keeping the fowls | exercising and busy during the winter." A Farm Nctes. The eggs from mature hens hatch I the best chickens. If you have a good' orchard and your buildings burn, you will rebuild.— Solon Chase. In no other of our farm industries are the returns so sure as those which the dairy offers. Choose your animals for the purpose you wish them, milk or butter, a whole sale or a retail market. It is through upgrading of our com mon stock that we can hope to enhance the value and usefulness of our herds, j Turpentine is prescribed for cholera i for chickens. Loth young and old. It I may be put in the feed and water I troughs. I Never let pigs or any other animal i shift for themselves while young, and j think you can make up for such neglect : at the end. ! Make the hens scratch in clean litter ■ for every kernel they get. They need i the exercise, they will not eat so £hst I and stuff full, then go and loaf. If you are troubled with hens eating I eggs, place five or six artificial eggs iin the nest. That will cure them. I They get tired picking at them. I Eating dusty hay is a prominent cause of a cough which may develop I into heaves. Such a horse should be I fed on cut hay dampened with water I and mixed with the grain feed. Remember there will be no advance ment. no upgrading, unless you have secured the best-bred, most prepotent animal at the head of your herd that is obtainable. Improvement only comes through the superior qualities of the males used. Brood mares that have a few hours’ run each day during the winter in an open paddock or yard will do better if not blanketed in stable than mares wMeh wear blankets in the stable, but have their blankets removed when turned into the yard or paddock. The majority of the latter are liable to be. mere or less afflicted with a cough or atarrhal cold.—Boston Cultivator.