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Buckwheat for Hogs 
I would like to .sow' buckwheat for a 
pasture for niy pigs. Would that be a 
good thing? I read that buckwheat is 
injurious to hogs. Is that true? Then 
wherein does the injuriousne.ss consist? 
My own pigs ate a little of it green, just 
before it was ripe, and also the ripe 
buckwheat that the chickens had left 
when they had done their own thrashing. 
The little pigs ate all they liked, and it 
did them no harm as fiir as I could .see. 
Connecticut. T. s. 
Too much buckwheat will be likely to 
cause trouble for any animal, human or 
brute. It causes au itching or irritation 
on the skin, but aside from that we do 
not know of any trouble which would re¬ 
sult from such feeding. The people who 
live in buckwiieat districts live very 
largely upon this grain during the Win¬ 
ter, and they are troubled considerably 
with this .skin irritation. Many farmers 
believe that buckwheat straw' makes a 
poor feeding for hogs, for this reason. 
All animals are fond of a reasonable 
amount of this grain and there would be 
no trouble in using the buckwheat as a 
pa.sture. It will be better, however, to 
seed Dw'arf Essex rape along with the 
buckwheat. We should use from one to 
pounds to the acre of the rape seed, 
and let it grow along with the grain. 
Hogs are fond of the rape, and will eat it 
along with the buckwheat. The combin¬ 
ation will give more and better pasture 
and we should turn them in about the 
time when buckwheat comes into bloom or 
a little before. The hens will clean up 
all the buckwheat which the hogs leave. 
Rape as a Silage Crop 
Will it be safe to cut Dw'ai-f Essex rape 
and feed it to cattle or hogs as a soiling 
crop ? j, s. 
There would he no objection to the use 
of Dwarf Es.sox rape as a soiling crop 
for either swine or cattle. Its best use, 
however, is when it is used as a forage 
crop for swine, for if allowed to reach 
the stage of development tlmt would jus¬ 
tify its being cut and harvested as a soil¬ 
ing crop, the hanliness of the plants 
would be somewliat injured. The reason 
that it is not grown more universally as 
a soiling crop i.s the fact that its yield 
per acre does not compare with either 
oats or peas or a combination of other 
forage crops that are more vigorous in 
their growth during their early stiiges, 
hence better suited for irregular har¬ 
vesting. 
There should he no more danger from 
bloating with rape than with other soil¬ 
ing crops, notably oats and peas or Al¬ 
falfa. for in any process, it is necessary 
to feed the animals on small amounts 
of the green feed, increasing the amounts 
from day to day until they would he on 
full feed. 
Ciire should he exercised in not har¬ 
vesting the rape when it is thickly cov¬ 
ered with dew or moisture; moreover it 
should not he wilted very much before 
feeding, as it will lose its succulence and 
palatahilit.v. I am sure that if the area 
is sufliciently large to justif.v fencing, 
and especially if the pigs are to be fed 
on forage, the best results would follow 
where rape was seeded in rows and the 
pigs turned directly into the field to for¬ 
age off the crop. Nevertheless rape would 
be perfectly safe to feed as forage, but 
the expense involved in the daily gath¬ 
ering of the crop would be greater than 
where oats and Canada field peas are 
used as a forage. f. c. mxKLER. 
The Home Dressmaker 
(Continued from page 799) 
and a half apart. The straight skirt is 
gathered, a space in front left plain so as 
to look like a panel. The edge of the 
hem is bound with a red stripe, and there 
is a red stripe put around the skirt like 
a milliner’s fold, about four inches above 
the edge. Slanting pockets at each side 
are bound with a red stripe, and closed 
with a red button. The placket is at the 
back, the plain little fitted bodice being 
buttoned down the back. The lower edge 
of the bodice comes down like a shallow 
square tab in front, and the waist line is 
piped with red ; three red buttons are used 
as trimming. The round neck has a loo.se 
cowl collar of white mull closing at the 
back. These cowl collars fold over like 
a monk’s hood, some closing at the back, 
some at the front, and are now very pop¬ 
ular. The sleeve is gathered into a deep, 
tight cuff, closed with red buttons. The 
hat is a plain wide-brimmed sailor shape 
of black lisere. 
A Peasant Dress. —In the second 
group the figure at the left shows a little 
peasant dress of a style now popular. 
some modifications of this style being 
made for little girls, as well as for tlieir 
elders. As shown, the dre.ss was of bright 
blue voile. The plain gathered skirt ha<l 
no trimming except two deep pointed 
pockets so folded that they formed pan¬ 
niers ; these were finished at the bottom 
by Chiue.se tassels of soft yellow with a 
touch of blue and silver. These pockets 
were caught to the skirt .at intervals 
about half-way down, so that they would 
not flap out of plac-e. The bodice was 
merely a deep girdle laid in flat folds; 
this was carefully fitted over a lining, so 
that it fastened snugly in the back. 
Folded suspender straps went over the 
shoulders, a silk tie of the same color 
coming down under the straps, and tied 
loosely in front. Any fine lingerie blouse 
may be worn with this dress; in the 
model pictured the blouse was of fine or¬ 
gandie, having a wide collar cut in points. 
The hat pictured was lisere with a trans¬ 
parent edge of Georgette crepe around 
the brim, and a stand-up ruff of wired 
Georgette around the crown. The peas¬ 
ant dre.ss is au economical model when 
one is short of material, or in making 
over, and it is very becoming to a girlish 
figure. 
A Girl’s S^lip-Ox. —The little girl in 
the center wears another of the popular 
slip-on models; there is no visible clos¬ 
ing, but a little placket with snap fast- 
ener.s is concealed at one side of the front 
jianel, giving just room enough to slip 
the dress over the head. The skirt is 
circular, and is then laid in box pleats 
that are wider at the bottom than the top. 
The skirt is attached to the straight 
blouse, which has a panel let in at the 
center in both front and back, and man¬ 
darin sleeves with a turn-back cuff. 
There i.s a little round collar, and a flat 
girdle buttoned to the blouse a little higher 
than the waist line in front and falling 
lower at the back, where it is loosely 
loojied. This is a pretty style for linen 
or heavv cotton, or for thin woolens. It 
would be pretty iu white gabardine, witli 
collar, cuffs and girdle of blue or pink 
liuen. The hat is a plain little shape of 
white chip, faced under the brim with 
rose-colored Georgette crape, and trimmed 
with ribbon of the same color. 
Silk and Wool. —The dre.ss shown at 
the right had a skirt of dark blue challie. 
with a loose blouse of blue and Avhite 
plaid taffeta, to which the skirt was at¬ 
tached. Tliis was a slii)-on dre.ss. the 
waist being as straight as a middy blouse. 
It had a short little placket in the cen¬ 
ter at the top, to give room enough to 
slip the head through, this being piped 
around the edges, which were brought 
close together with snap fasteners. The 
neck was finished with .a round collar of 
white Georgette crepe over another collar 
of the plain material; sleeves were open 
at the outer seam nearly to the elbow, 
and finished with a thick cording, the 
edges being closed by snap fasteners. 
The straight skirt, attached to the edge 
of the blouse, had at each side a pannier 
draping, a portion being allowed to fall 
free at the top, instead of being attached 
to the blouse, giving a very pretty effect. 
A plain stitched girdle of the challie was 
looped at the front, drawing in the blouse 
enough to define the waist line. 
Sewing Room IIint.s. —When fitting a 
waist and skirt together, it is well to fit 
the inside belting first, putting on the 
hooks, and fastening at the place, side or 
front, where the placket of the finished 
dress is to come. The belt should have 
a mark to show the center of tlie hack. 
The waist is then pinned to this belting, 
in correct position, and the skirt pinned 
over it; nothing can slip out of place, 
and the belting gives a firm foundation to 
pin to. Otherwise there is alwiiys some 
uncertainty iu getting skirt and waist to¬ 
gether, where the home dressmaker is in¬ 
experienced. The loose-fitting coat 
dresses do not have an inside belt, but 
where skirt and waist are cut separately 
the belting adds to fit, and jilso prevents 
strain. 
Plain sleeves buttoned tightly on the 
outside nearly to the elbow are seen on 
many liuen suits and dresses, also the 
same style with the edges piped and 
brought together with snap fasteners. 
A pretty substitute for buttonholes in 
a fine waist or lingerie dre.ss is a picot 
edge having buttonhole loops, and this is 
especially desirable where crocheted but¬ 
tons are used. The loop is simply an ex¬ 
tended picot, a longer chain being made, 
and either plain crochet or a little edge, 
such as is used on handkerchiefs, between 
the buttonholes. Where the edge is 
straight a few threads might be drawn to 
crochet into, and this would give the effect 
of hemstitching. This is a pretty fasten¬ 
ing at the neck of a slip-on blouse of fine 
lingerie material, which is closed down 
the front, with merely a little ornamental 
placket at the lop to give sufiicieut room 
to slip the head through. 
When altering a readymade dress with 
a tunic, if the skirt is too long a tuck 
should be taken in the upper lining por¬ 
tion of the underskirt, instead of taking 
up the hem ; this merely brings it higher 
under the tunic. Where sleeves are too 
wide to look well at the wrist, instead of 
taking in the seam a couple of snap 
fasteners should be put on, so that the 
sleeve may be folded over at the uuder 
seam and held in place at the wrist, with¬ 
out any opening like a placket. A fancy 
culf is often fastened in this way, the 
extra fullness of the sleeve being finished 
at the edge, but uot gathered into the cuff, 
being folded into place by the fasteners. 
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