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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1946)
Page Twelve Home of the Croft Lily BROOKINGb-HAKBUK PILOT, BROOKINGS, ORJM5ON mal atmospheric conditions on , visitors at the Bollinger home, the growth of plants. In most o f, While picking blackberries, they the cases it was discovered that said they had read about such By R. Sloan plant growth was increased and and had heard of them, but never CARBON DIOXIDE in Compost were in a healthier state. It wasi expected to see such a sight, Although many of us accept noted also that several of the ex- Mr. and Mrs. Larry Whytal of the fact that the proper manipula perimentors remarked that an in-! Whytal’s Ready-to-wear Store at tion of decaying organic matter crease of carbon dioxide concen- Klamath Falls, were visitors at will provide a substance for the tration could be produced by the the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray growing plans, that is superior to proper maneuvering with organic Guerrettaz, Tuesday. chemical fertilizers, there are a fertilizers. It seems logical to sup- Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Lovell and few of us with a touch of scien pose that the good effects caused Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Atwood of tific curiosity who would like to by loosening the soil around the Medford were callers last week know why this is so. plant and weed removal allows of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Muchmore. , It is an accepted fact, proven more carbon dioxide to be releas-1 Hans Nelson of Brookings was by scientific experiment that car- ed to be used by cultivated plants, a business caller at Grants Pass lam dioxide is necessary to the Carbon dioxide concentration last week. 1% and growth of plants as oxy from compost may also cause ’ Mi„ Mercedies Mclndoe, Smith gen is necessary to animal life. fewer insects on plants. River, arrived in Brookings this Nature has provided for a con Hang Onto Your Hate! week to spend a vacation with tinuous supply of carbon dioxide. The organic gardener applies Miss Mildred Drake. All dead organic matter decays potash in considerable amounts by Mrs. W. H. Merrill, Mrs. Wal and ferments back to simple mat composting plant residues. No ter Muhlmann and Miss Mary ter, mainly carbon dioxide. body knows what potash actually of San " rjancisco Francisco were were 'Hiis brings us back to our main does to the plant, though many Stillings ‘ topic: the role of carbon dioxide opinions are going around as if ° aU£-’ MrS' in composting. Besides improving they were proven facts. Amanda Sleeves of Brookings. the sod, compost is a material Nobody knows even how potash G. W. Johnston and daughter, that is at just the proper stage will re-act in a soil, as Hoagland Irenc- of Pistol River were busi- for conversion into a ready supply describes in his "Lectures on the ness v*s’tors at Brookings this of carbon dioxide for the plant. Inorganic Nutrition of Plants.” in week-ood. Edwin C. Miller, in his book, Chronica Botania, 1944. But we, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ostrander of "Plant Physiology,” records the know that potassium in the form : North Bend were guests of Mr. work of several experiments, to of de-composed vegetable matter and Mrs. Mike Page last week. study the effects of increased sup goes with every type of sod and Mrs. E. Moore returned to this ply of carbon dioxide above nor with every kind of plant. area Sunday after an absence of six years, part of which was spentj at Couer d’Alene, Idaho. Fertilizer Tips THEATRE Box Office Opens 7:45 Brookings Oregon Friday and Saturday— August 9 and 10— THE CRYSTAL BALL p"2u'n and Plus a cartoon Sunday and Monday - August 11 and 12— tK tl« C O * A*. . ERNIE PY1ES ■STORY OS GJ. JOE BURGESS MEREDIÎH ERNIE PttE .. »Il1 4* A »tu MAh u, , , J \ fô ' Wednesday and Thursday August 11 and 15— m J 1 IS3 « S » Mül ÔE,.$'ÎHW A RCPUBLIC FhC’É U lfir tj Also a cartoon. Sporting Goods and Fishing DUTCH BOY PAINTS AND SUNDRIES PUM PS Electric — Hand — Gasoline Powered A pump for every need! Complete Line of Plumbing Goods STOVES, RANGES AND ’ “ C U STO M , A IR E ” CIRCULATING OIL HEATERS We just got in a new shipment! J. J. Gallagher P L U M B IN G WATCH THIS CORNEI Favorite Recipe Pine Cone ra iile tte Goddard. Headquarters For This recipe is especially fitting now, since rhubarb is in season. It was submitted by Mrs. Earl McPherson of Harbor: (RHUBARB CUSTARD PIE 3 cups diced rhubarb. 1 egg, beaten slightly. Few grains salt. I to l ’a cups sugar. 3 tablespoons pastry flour. Add sugar, flour and salt sifted together to egg. Add rhubarb and stir until well coated. Turn into a pastry-lined pan. Place strips of pastry criss-crossed over th< top. Bake in oven 450 degrees for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 25 minutes baking until rhubarb is tender and crust is a golden brown. Local News Items Attorney and Mrs. Ed F. Ack ley returned home Tuesday af ternoon after a week-end spent in Salem and other Willamette valley points. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Wan! and son. Billy, of Seattle, have moved to Brookings. He will open a mens store soon, to be known as "Ward’s Clothing Store,” in the Gardner building. Mr. Ward was born and reared in this com munity and is the son of Mrs. Bernice Echols. Miss Alcewah Lcidig of Hay ward, Calif., is now visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Laura Mill gard, here. Miss Ruth Newton ot Harbor has been on a combined business and pleasure t r i p to Klamath Falls and Portland for two weeks She is expected home this week. A number ot local people en joyed a Sydney Aimer display of wild flower paintings at the I William Crissey home Sunday. Tom Shuster of Talent arrived l'uesday to visit his sister, Mrs. Lillie Myets and other relatives Gardens of Mr. and Mi's. Grant Powell. Mr. and Mi's. Crissey and Mr and Mrs. Roy Becker will be ¡visited by the Azaleu Garden club this afternoon following the meet-! I ing at the Azalea park. At the Becker home they will hear an informal lecture on birds by Mr. and Mrs. Becker, who are lovers of birds and do much to attract them to their garden. Mr. and Mrs. Will McVay gave a farewell party, Sunday, for Mr J and Mrs, Phil Schroeder and son. Phil Edward, who plan to leave this week-end to live at Klamath Falls, their former home. Several friends were present at the affair. Mr. and Mrs Clem Geiser o f1 Missoula. Mont., were week-end A letter Members of Coos Electric Co-op: Me, too, have made progress in Brookings- Harbor area. Look at these facts: Since the first of the year, your co-op has in stalled $10,0(10.00 in generating equipment: Your co-op is rebuilding, not patching up, an entire electric system—new materials through out, so that it will be a job which will not have to he re-built in the next two decades; Y our co-op, when re-built, will have a capac- it> sufficient to capably serve all homes and the prospective enterprises which will come to our community in the next generation. All this, co-op members, we are doing with our own money, keeping our money at home— not pacing it out in profits to some company. Me an doing it ourselves—for ourselves. Coos Electric Co-op
