1. Step 1 Soothe eczema. Make a nutmeg paste. Use a kitchen mallet or rolling pin to pulverize a few nutmeg seeds. Add water and mix to form a paste. Smear the paste over the red scaly patches. 2. Step 2 Tame acne. Grind several nutmeg seeds with a food processor. Add small amounts of [...]

The report was seen as offering some reassurance on the economic recovery after the surprise 1.2 percent drop in retail sales in May, the first decline in eight months. While sales of clothing-accessories fell 1.3 percent last month, they still were up 4.1 percent from May 2009. And while clearly disappointing, the total sales decline [...]

Strong reading of U.S. consumer sentiment softened the effects of an unexpected drop in May retail sales. U.S. crop prospects reported pointing to output considerably above USDA estimate. By Duane Howell DTN Cotton Correspondent Some profit-taking after a four-day advance amid ongoing rolling of fund longs from the front contract weighed on cotton futures Friday. [...]

Cotton futures maintained gains in the upper reaches of session ranges Thursday but reacted initially in a rather muted manner to confirmation of tightening U.S. and world stocks in USDA’s supply-demand estimates and of more evidence of robust demand in weekly export sales. Spot July hovered up 141 points at 82.73 cents at 8:28 a.m. [...]

Shane Stephens, vice president of Staplcotn’s warehouse division in Greenwood, Miss., says many farmers note that the cotton market is getting interesting – based on current futures prices – plus they need to rotate. “A lot of producers who haven’t planted cotton in the last few years and others who have planted only a small [...]

Better Way To Evaluate Mississippi cotton consultant Tucker Miller says this approach for testing varieties is probably the best option. For a long time, he has advocated letting producers observe new varieties in a true farm field environment as opposed to small six-row test plots. “This approach is definitely better because you are able to [...]

Plains Cotton Growers, Inc., will conduct its 52nd Annual Meeting on Friday, April 9, 2010. PCG’s meeting will be held in the Banquet Hall of the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. with registration, and the program will start promptly at 9 a.m. The primary focus of discussion at the meeting [...]

Sometimes a producer or a ginner can feel downright overloaded with information in today’s rapidly changing technology. However, some of that “overload” problem is being alleviated by the Electronic Warehouse Receipt Inc. (EWR) Web site. The best word to describe the new feature of the EWR site is “streamlined,” which ultimately will save time and [...]

It’s becoming fashionable to be environmentalist but anything that helps in preserving the Earth is good. One outcome of all this hype about being eco friendly is that more and more people are turning to natural and organic clothing. However, one thing that most people do not realise is that when you give up using [...]

Nature serves humans and is the source of our bare necessities. Nowadays, the global trend is towards saving nature. In the light of this awakening, the trend is changing in textiles from manmade materials to eco-friendly ones. The demand of the consumers is also changing from polyester and conventional cotton to eco-friendly garments. These kind [...]