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found to interfere with the field work too 
seriously at this busy season. 
Plan to have sufficient silage to last till 
pastures are fit. If you have roots, feed 
them as a supplement to the silage. Be 
sure to have a cellar full of mangels, sugar 
beets and carrots next year. Drag and roll 
the pastures if you can, and don’t turn 
the stock on until sure it will bear the stock 
without cutting. Then watch carefully 
for any disorders that may be caused by the 
sudden change in feed. The milk record 
will show the results. 
Pennsylvania. V8e 105 18, 
Practical Garden Costumes for 
Women 
ALtsCrE my garden dress may involve 
a little trouble in the making, itamply re- 
pays, being durable and thoroughly suitable. 
The waist is the regulation shirt-waist 
cut about an inch and a half below the waist 
line. This is gathered into a belt or band 
two and one-half inches wide and about 
two inches larger than my actual waist 
measure. ‘The lower edge of this band is left 
open and into this I insert the top of an 
underskirt, long enough to extend a little 
below the knees. Any old wash dress skirt 
will answer for this purpose. 
My outside skirt is made of seme woolen 
material, such as flannel serge, panama 
cloth—anything, in fact, that will wash well 
and is not too heavy. Cotton I have found 
will not do, as it gets too bedraggled. The 
material is shrunk before being made up, and 
is of some quiet color, such as brown or 
gray. I get very wide material and use a 
seven-gored pattern. Ifanold dressskirt that 
is somewhat worn at the bottom is more 
convenient, it can be shortened and rebound. 
A light-weight, broad-brimmed hat pro- 
tects my head from the sun, but if I have to 
do much stooping I wear a sunbonnet the 
cape of which protects the back of my neck. 
A pair of old gloves or mitts made out of a 
pair of stockings tops in which are stitched 
short fingers and thumbs cover my hands, 
and the latter can also be drawn up over the 
arms to protect the sleeves. 
New York. Cora A. STAFFORD. 
AN APRON WITH LONG SLEEVES 
When working in my garden, I wear a 
long-sleeved apron of dark blue duck made 
the length of my skirt. It is closed at the 
back to almost the waist-line, so that I can, 
if I wish, wear it without a skirt. Instead 
of the regulation turned-down collar (which 
almost all aprons of this kind have) the neck 
is bound with a narrow piece of the duck, so 
that whatever pretty trimming I have around 
the neck of my waist will show. My gar- 
dening shoes are thicker and wider than those 
I usually wear and have a heavy, welted 
sole. A sunbonnet of the kind sometimes 
known as a “slat” bonnet and a pair of 
leather gloves one or two sizes too large, with 
holes cut in the palms for ventilation, com- 
plete my very comfortable and serviceable 
garden costume. 
Canada. Mary W. RITCHIE. 
