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In the Play of
Organdie is the gay and spirited sou
brette In the play of summer styles.
It bobs up everywhere, with all sorts
of summer frocks, as a part of their
make-up or In accessories worn with
them. In the weave called swlss or
gandie it is more sheer than ever and
disports itself in all the new and love
ly shades of colors that grace the joys
of midsummer. It is used in bands
and borders on frocks made of other
sheer fabrics, In petticoats and In col
lars and cuffs. In frills and in vestees.
It is of much service In separate col
lars, like those Illustrated here. Along
with jabots, collars of this kind am
plify the summer wardrobe, saying the
day, with their crisp daintiness, for
the overworked wool or silk frock that
serves many purposes. Pretty acces
sories of this kind help out the tourist
Immensely and are the easiest of all
belongings to carry along on a'journey.
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Auxiliaries of
The American Red Cross is engaged
In so many humanitarian and philan
thropic activities that Its work must of
necessity be departmentlzed and each
department thoroughly organized for
the sake of efficiency. A chapter. of
the Red Cross, in any locality, repre
sents all of the Red Cross activities.
Under Its supervision different commit
tees are organized for the different
kinds of work to be done, each commit
tee devoted to one particular object or
.iass of work. In communities where
no chapter exists Red Cross commit
tees may be formed, by special author
ity of the director general of civilian
relief, for special Red Cross activities.
These committees are called auxiliar
ies. Several auxiliaries may be formed In
the same community, to take care of
the several different classes of work
to be done. Where a chapter exists
auxiliaries must be formed with the
consent of the chapter, and they will
be a part of the chapter and subordi
nate to It.
The Red Cross is the only society
authorized by the government of the
United States to render aid to its land
end naval forces in time of war. There
fore wonnui who wish to help should
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Summer Styles.
The collars shown In the picture are
selections from a display of epaulet
collars made of voile or organdie. We
cannot forget the war and don't try
to, and therefore, even the most fragile
of our belongings reflect the martial
thoughts that are in the air. These
are the last presented styles and are
lengthened at the shoulder so that they
fall over the top of the arm like the
fringe on an officer's epaulet. Two of
the models are edged with filet lace
and ornamented with set-In medallions
of lace. The third collar is embroid
ered with eyelet work and sprays of
foliage. None of them presents any
difficulties to the average needlewom
an, and lace, voile and organdie are
scattered abroad In all dry goods
stores. When made by hand they bring
stiff prices In the shops, but few of
them are made In this way. Machine
made collars are plentiful, effective
and Inexpensive.
the Red Cross.
next enroll with the auxiliary that is
doing the sort of work they wish to do.
In the present emergency the Ameri
can Red Cross faces a gigantic task
for the benefit of our own soldiers and
sailors, in addition to the tremendous
work it has already done, and is do
ing, for the countries at war In Eu
rope. It must provide a system of hos
pitals, equipped with medical and hos
pital supplies, surgeons, trained
nurses and nurses assistants for both
field and base hospitals. It must make
some provision for dependents of sol
diers and sailors, and for the injured
after they are dismissed from hospit
als. It must gather and systematize
volunteer work throughout the coun
try, and Is doing so at this moment, so
as to be thoroughly prepared for the
demands of war.
Thousands of women are looking
for some practical way by which they
may express their loyalty to their
country and their wish to help in the
work of the war. The avenue open to
them will be found through Red Cross
activities and will be discussed in fu
ture articles.
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KEEP MILK COOL AND CLEAN
Warm Weather Is Trying on Dairymen,
but More Especially on Women
Keep Vessels Clean.
The season is rapidly approaching
when greater care must be taken of
milk. Warm weather is trying on' the
dairyman, but more especially on the
farmer's wife, who must care for the
milk from a few cows. Preparations
should therefore be made to keep the
milk cool and clean.
The facilities for keeping milk on
the average farm are, very inadequate.
Not enough cool space Is available for
the average farm woman, hence she
has difficulties in saving the milk and
ripening the cream evenly.
In the first place, the milk vessels
are important. They should be of the
right kind, with no seams in the pans,
pails, etc., to harbor germs. There
should be plenty of vessels and they
should be kept scrupulously clean,
aired, steamed and sunned occasion
ally. A refrigerator is almost a necessity
on the farm these days. There are
many perishable foods as well as milk
to be kept. The cost of a refrigerator
is not great when the utility and econ
omy of keeping foods are considered.
DAIRY COWS RELISH SILAGE
Result Given of an Experiment Con
ducted by Pennsylvania Station
Decrease in Yield.
In an experiment conducted by the
Pennsylvania station, according to a
report received by the department of
agriculture, two lots of five cows each
were fed for three periods of four
weeks. Lot 1 received silage alone for
roughage during period 1 and 3 and
mixed hay and silage during period
2, and lot 2 received hay and silage
during periods 1 and 3 and silage dur
ing period 2.
The milk yield decreased with both
systems of roughage, but the decrease
was less with silage and hay. When
silage and hay for roughage followed
silage alone there was a slight increase
in milk yield over the initial produc
tion. Except In one instance there
was a decrease each period! When
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High Producing Type.
the cows received hay they con
sumed practically the same amount
of silage as when no hay was
Included in the ration. Both lots
consumed an excess of protein and
net energy above that necessary for
maintenance and milk . production
when based on Eckles' standard. There
were no apparent undesirable physi
cal effects from -the feeding of silage
alone for roughage with the grains
used. There was very little difference
in the cost of the two rations or In
the feed cost of milk and milk fat.
No perceptible difference was observed
in the health of the two lots.
MILK FEVER IS BOTHERSOME
Danger Among Cows Appears Great
est In Late Summer Keep -Animal
In Barn and Feed Hay.
Milk fever Is a rather serious trou
ble with good cows, as it is said that
none but well-bred, heavy-producing
cows have it. It seems to be more
prevalent among grass-fed cows.
The danger of milk fever among
cows seems to be greatest in late sum
mer or early fall, notably June, July,
August and September. The recom
mendation is to put the cow in the
barn and feed dry hay about a week
before she comes fresh. Three or
four days before calving the cow is
given a dose of salts with a little gin
ger. Another dose is also given five
or six hours after the calf is born. A
bucket of warm water should be given
the cow two or three times a day. She
should not be allowed to have cold
water for some time.
FEED ROUGHAGE TO DRY COWS
Profitable, However, to Feed Sufficient
Grain to Have Them In Good
Physical Condition.
Dry cows can be maintained on hay
and silage or roots. It is profitable
however, to feed cows a sufficient
amount of grain during the dry period
to have them In good physical condi
tion at calving time.
Cows should be dry for six to eight
weeks prior to calving. It does not
pay to hava them dry for a longer
period.
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SOILS AND ROTATIONS FOR SWEET POTATO
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment ot AsrriecUture.)
Sweet potatoes enn be grown on
nearly every type of soil, but a sand
or sandy loam soil will give the best
results. The subsoil should be clay, so
that the plant food will not easily
leach away, but the clay should be of
a porous character to afford good
drainage. Soils medium In fertility
are to be preferred to very rloh soils,
for the latter will produce a heavy
growth of vines at the expense of roots.
Good crops may be produced on run
down cotton, corn, or tobacco lands
If a leguminous crop Is planted to
increase the humus In the soil. New
ly cleared pine land will produce ex
cellent crops of sweet potatoes when
properly fertilized.
Rotations.
A systematic rotation of crops
should be practiced when raising
sweet potatoes, for In this way It is
possible to check materially the
spread of sweet-potato diseases. The
j continuous cropping of the land with
I sweet potatoes depletes the humus
SYMPTOMS OF STEM ROT
content In the soli, while with a prop
er rotation, using a soil-Improving
crop every three or four years, It Is
possible to maintain the supply of
humus.
The rotations to be followed will
depend entirely upon the individual
farmer's needs, but the following Is
suggestive and may be changed.
. A good four-year rotation for the
northern part of the sweet-potato
growing area would be:
First year Sweet potatoes.
Second year Tomatoes or other
vegetable crop, with clover seeded
late between the rows.
Third year Clover.
Fourth year Corn.
A suggestive four-year rotation for
the Southern states would be:
First year Sweet potatoes.
Second year Oats, followed by
cowpeas or peanuts.
Third year Cotton with bur clover
or crimson clover between the rows.
Fourth year Corn with cowpeas,
peanuts, or velvet beans between the
rows.
A good three-year rotation:
First year Early Irish potatoes or
other early vegetable crop, followed
by sweet potatoes.
CULTURE OF PEANUTS
Boil Seed in Boiling Soap Water
to Repel Rodents.
Nuts Should Be Planted in Moist Soil
Run Drag Harrow Over Crop If
Weeds or Grass Threaten
Can Be Stored in Barn.
(By FLETCHER DAVIS. Texas Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
It takes about one and a half pecks
of the larger varieties of shelled pea
nuts and one peck of the Spanish or
one and a quarter bushels of whole
pods to plant an acre. Where the
whole pods are planted, they should
be soaked In water a few hours not
long enough for them to spoil and
planted down in the moist soil before
being permitted to dry. If there is a
liability of rodents destroying the
seeds. It is claimed by some that they
can be protected by dissolving a five
cent bar of laundry soap in boiling
water and stirring thoroughly into this
a half pint of coal oil and then mix
ing this hot preparation with suffi
cient quantity of cool water to soak
two bushels of peanuts in the hulls.
This preparation should not be used
on shelled peanuts, and It Is better to
poison the rodents before planting
rather than seek to repel them In this
way. The nuts should be planted in
moist ground, but they need be cov
ered to a depth varying from three
quarters of an Inch In heavy soils to
two Inches in light sandy soils.
If the soil shows a tendency to bake
or is becoming foul with weeds or
grass, a drag harrow can be run nil
over the crop while It Is young or Just
coming up, being careful, of course, to
set the teeth of the harrow so as not
to tear the plants out of the ground,
or where soil Is loose and loamy and
when grass and weeds grow rapidly,
the first and even the second plowing
may be done by running a sweep shal
low and close enough to completely
cover up all the grass, weeds an.i even
the peanuts. This operation, if done
In time, will clean the rows by smoth
ering the grass and weeds, but the pea- ;
Second year Oats, followed by
cowpeas, soy beans or peanuts.
Third year Corn, . with cowpeas,
peanuts, or velvet beans between the
rows.
Manures and Fertilizers.
Stable manure Is an excellent fer
tilizer for sweet-potato lands, especial
ly those which are deficient in humus.
Heavy applications of fresh manure
should not be applied shortly before
planting sweet potatoes, for the ma
nure will cause excessive growth of
vines at the. expense of the roots. It
Is a very good plan to use the manure
on' the crop that precedes the sweet
potatoes ; thus the manure Is very thor
ninthly Incorporated with the soil be
fun; the sweet potatoes are planted.
Commercial fertilizers will produce
good crops of sweet potatoes, provid
ed the soil contains sufficient humus.
The quantity and kind of fertilizer
to use will depend upon the fertility
of the soil. When sweet potatoes fol
low an early crop of Irish potatoes or
other early vegetables no fertilizer is
ON SWEET POTATO PLANT.
needed. And when they follow a leg
uminous crop very little nitrogen Is
needed In the commercial fertilizer.
The whole question of. fertilizers,
should be studied, for the amounts
of the different elements to use and
the sources of these elements will de
pend upon prices and the materials
that are available.
A suggestive formula that would
do for many conditions is as follows: j
Pounds.
Acid phosphate (16 per cent) .. .1,000
Cottonseed meal 500
Nitrate of soda 100
Muriate of potash 300
2,000
This mixture contains about 8.8 per I
cent phosphoric acid, 2.5 per cent
nitrogen, and 7.5 per cent potash.
The commercial fertilizer Is usually
applied In the row where the crop Is
to be planted and stirred with the
soil by running a single-shovel cul
tivator in the row. A ridge is then
thrown up over the fertilizer. The
fertilizer should be distributed at least
ten days before planting begins, so as
to avoid any burning of the roots of
the plants.
nuts will come through to a perfect
stand within 24 to 48 hours, provided,
of course, they are not covered too
deep, In which case they may never
come through. Frequent shallow cul
tivation with ordinary Implements to
keep down weeds and maintain a soil
mulch Is all the cultivation needed.
Even this should cease when the plants
begin to peg and by the last plowing,
a gently sloping ridge or bed should
be formed around the plants.
If grown only for feed, they can be
stored In the barn or stacked In a
larger stack when thoroughly cured;
but If the nuts are to be crushed at
the mills and many cottonseed oil
mills are now prepared to crush them
or sold to buyers, they must be pick
ed from the vines. This can be done
either by hand or by machinery, but
It is best, if possible, to employ the
latter as being more economical and
faster. There are two kinds of thresh
ers the rotary thresher and the pick
er. The rotary thresher can be bought
for from $400 to $500, and there Is a
peanut attachment for the ordinary
grain threshers that can be had at $90
to $100. Some object to the rotary
thresher on account of the large per
cent of the nuts that it damages and
prefer the peanut picker, a machine
that works on a different . principle
from the rotary thresher. If a com
munity grows a sufficient acreage of
sound, clean peanuts, threshers will
seek out those communities to cater
to the custom of the growers.
BUILDING UP LAYING STRAIN
Poultryman Must Give Much Consider
ation to the Fowls That Are
t to Head the Pens.
In building up a laying strain of
chickens the poultryman m'ist give a
great deal of consideration to the birds
that are to head the pens. The male
birds should be the offspring of fe
males of good laying strains. The
male bird has a greater Influence In
strain breeding than the ave-age
breeder gives him credit for, and too
often strains do not develop to the
satisfaction of the breeder because no
consideration Is given to the e tg-pro-ducing
qualities of the ancentrv cf tht
male bird used.
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CURIOUS FEARS OF SOLDIERS
One Dreads That His Charcoal Burner
Will Be Destroyed Although In
different as to Himself.
It Is extraordinary what curious
foal's some soldiers have. One fighter
always dreads that his charcoal fire
will be destroyed by a shell. He al
ways places the burner in. the most
protected part of the trench, but re
mains quite indifferent in regard to
his own personal safety.
Another extraordinary fear of a sol
dier at the front is that of having hi3
bootlaces untied. Nothing else has
terrors for him. from bayonet fighting
to asphyxiating gases. But he is quite
certain that If his bootlaces are loosef.
he will trip over them and break hisULr
neck. He always examines his laces
to see if they are properly fastened.
Another soldier who has been through
the thick of the fighting is terribly
frightened of going through a wood,
and would rather walk miles round It
than half a mile through it. He has
the fear that some day a tree will, sud
denly fall pud crush him.
Many soldiers' have a horror of los
ing their identity disks, or of being
unidentified if they are killed, and
burled in a nameless grave. One man
Is known to carry little scraps of paper
In every pocket, giving his name and
regiment, so that his body may be rec
ognized if he Is killed.
Knew What Was in It.
Raymond Blathwatt, the well-known
Journalist, was once asked to write
a character sketch of Lord North
cllffe. In a letter he requested a i
special Interview and the famous
newspaper proprietor sent him the fol-
lowing reply:
T am sorry, but I must ask you to
excuse me from acceding to your re
quest. I am like the little boy at a
school treat who, when the squire's
wife came round to him and asked him
If h wouhl like some strawberry Jam,
promptly replied : 'No, thank you,
marm. I works at the place where
they makes it!'"
Distinguishing Poison Ivy.
Pois:i Ivy can always be distin
guished from similaT plants by Its leaf
lets, which are arranged In threes,
the center one borne on a slightly
longer stalk than the other two. It
Is a perennial plant, propagated by
means of creeping underground stems
or rootstocks and also by the seeds.
For Building
Up Quicllly
probably the very
best food you can
select is
Grape-Nuts.
It contains the
mineral salts and
energy values all
the nutriment of
whole wheat and
barley digests
easily and quickly,
and the flavor is
delicious.
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for
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