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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
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p"2u'n
and
Plus a cartoon
Sunday and Monday -
August 11 and 12—
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Wednesday and Thursday
August 11 and 15—
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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