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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 27. 1922 ' ' - " ; t M I r 4 - J V .1': ME HOME ii . ni i i '(The following matter la furnished by the National Garden Bureau, headquarters 431 S. Dearborn street. Chicago. Ills.) '' :; : ' ' !;, Hatching Young Onions From Acres of glass are given to Us J jSeta ! cultivation for the markets, and Young onions 'are a standby otjrast acreage Is devoted, to it in almost every - spring ' vegetable garden and there is Just one waj to4 get them' early. That is to plant oniori!sets. , While the seec onions are cdming" on to give the later crop of young 'onions and througn the thinning process to give the plants room : to mature the big bulbs to be stored for winter, the set onions are coming along and furnish the ; tender young onions for the 'table. 'The onion set is made for the chiel ions. It I. better not to t try to . grow big onions from sets,' as the sot has completed most 'of its life ONION itTS VIVA. SPttOUT ' MOUt I . . - Mil " OUtCKLY IF PUkNTED OXOtfUU-Y THE CDOVH M SMOWM. work, although an abbreviated and arrested career, when it la put Into the ground, . and . sine cases out of ten if not pulled and eaten In its .young and tender , growth will shoot up to seed. Onion sets are merely prema turelyv matured onions of , any i type. The crop is produced In this manner: The seed is. sown thickly' and on poorer soli than would .be used ordinarily for on- . ion .growing. The . thick sowing and poor, soil is used in order that , they .may reach the limit of their . growth In their surroundings , quickly. They, -ct .; conrsev are sown later than ordinarily ? As coon as' they have matured their T growth they are dag s and har vested, to be planted the follow- . inc spring. Smalt sets, are hettei than he larger nesIer" the larg- . - er the set the, mere quicaiy n wiu finish' Its life cycle by sending up ':". seed stock which ends its edible fc sWeer. f h - lb; f C Jp J'-T :: 4 ,K J Onion wU come -i Inf yellow. white and red. all dependent op- . on the variety of onion, seed which was sown for the sets.. The 'most convenient thing about on - ' ions is that they arenot so par- . . tlcular about soil conditions and i a gardner can harvest young on f inn. from ' them lonr before ' a ; cropican be gathered from seed .. Growth starts almost as soon " ' - as they are planted and they can be slanted an Inch apart. They need only be planted deep enough so that the neck Is barely cover ed; with soil. 1 A little deeper planting, however, gfves a better length of edible white ypung on ion. . Any variety of onion seed will produce sets, but the seed from sets is worthless and should not be harvested as it will produce in ferior onions., , Just an Educated Pigweed Who first discovered that spin ach was good to eat -is as much of a mystery a& the first man to send an oyster skidding down his gullet, thus Introducing a great delicacy to our tables. In either case the original ; gourmet had considerable nerve, for the oyster is by no means tantalizing to the sight and the spinach, before it got a modern education, was no beauty. - - ,", , . -.. , -; ;. In fact a spinach : Is merely a cultivated pigweed, a near relative of the pale pigweed or lamb's quarters as it la often known, and this humble weed Is also edible. cooked as greens, but hasn't made Any igijeat headway. , Its other ( relative In the vegetable line is the beet, and all three are mem ., bers .pC the Gooaefoot family ot . plants.; . . , , : '.i " t. ., The spinach was named because i ot its spiny seeds, or, more prop erly r speaking, i fruit, the word coming from the Latin spina, a spine. , ; However, we do know that the spinach is an introduc tion from the orient, probably southwestern Asia, and that it 1 a comparative - newcomer when the antiquity of beans' and other vegetables are considered which were eagerly devoured by the Pharoaha In ancient Egypt. Spin ach came Into general use early in the Christian era so far as the ancient history of vegetables gives any record. . . .; (Spinach recently has grown in to popular favor faster than any . of the common vegetables with the exception of ihead lettuce. , It Is the easiest vegetable that a gar dener can grow,-and the hardiest ;for it may,be planted In the fall and wintered out with a cover ing of straw and be ready to boom along with the first spring, sun. GARDEh Garden ?' the, south, to be shipped to the northern markets. Every vegetable garden should have its spinach patch and the seed should be put in as soon as the ground, can be worked. Spin ach can be rown in rows as close together as eight inches, but a mistake is often made in sowing it too thickly in the rows. Do not be too stingy. The more closely crowded the little plants are in the rows the smaller leaves they will make and The more VlJJZ Ti".J fl?, Even the laziest gardener who scatters his seed broadcast rather than go to the trouble of making rows can do, so with spinach and be reasonably sure of a crop. Spinach-must be sown at the earliest possible moment In the spring -and given rich soil. Speed of growth is the main demand If a good crop of big wrinkled leaves is to be secured. If it Is planted too late the first really warm days start the spinach shooting-1 up to seed. Ordinarily the en-1 tire plant is pulled up-for greens! when needed. In a email garden where space is at a premium and there isn't room for a second I planting,. the leaves should be cut I from the plant and the root left I to develop a new crop -of leaves which it will do very obligingly so long as the weather remains cool and it has fertile soil. ' Spinach seems specially devised to occupy the space to be taken later by string beans, for by the time the last of the spinach is harvested or by the time it starts running up to seed, it is warm enough to put in the bean crop. Keeling Garden Diary ' A gardener who is Just starting out on his career as a raiser oi vegetables, as well as the oldei gardener, should make. It a point to . keep some sort ot a garden diary, even '.if It is no more than marking., dates, n ..the calendar An ideal . plan is to make a dia gram of - the garden on (a suffi ciently ' large scale to - permit oi notations of planting dates, ma turing of crops and a Tecord ot vegetables'; which did not thrive tor one reason or another. Notes should be made 'as ..to Whether the' planting produced more than was needed or less, so that another season the quantity of the particular crop planted may be increased or decreased to suit conditions. An experienced gardener knows fairly well what he can ex sect but he usually makes a few notes. A new gardener will find that such a record will be a groat help to him It is also useful to nete Interplan ting schemes and good garden wrinkles employed by 'one's neighbors. The plan should show where the nerrenial crops are fixed quantities and located in the gar den. Land Hard on the Lumps When you are doing your spad ing this spring, remember that every, lump of earthsyou break up fine is adding fertility to the soil. Soil, should be worked fine. 'Pul verizing the soil is almost equiva lent to adding a supply of fertil izer. . , .The lumps lock up the plant food and the tiny roots will creep around In the finer, softer soil and avoid the lumps., failing to penetrate them if they are too hard. The finer the Soil, the more available is the plant food MB. PtAKTS STRUGGUNQ PIANT5 MAKING TO GQOV IN kjUMrY.UNVOGKED HEALTHY GOdTH IN VEIL VOftKCP L$Q1L. SOIL. so that every additional bit of pul verizlng given the soil makes it that much more fertile. The plants must find their food in liquid form, the rains or arti ficial watering furnishing' the so lution to leach ont the food ele ments With the soil in tine tilth the moisture penetrates evenly. Hard lumps it will not penetrate except slowly. Break up the lumps. With the soil dug and broken finely to a foot depth, even a poor soil will show a surprising increare in growth over the same soli which has been coarsely dug and in which the lumps have not been well broken up. With the soli well pulverized. the task of hoeing or working witlfKa' hand; cultivator to keep dow VVhe weeds Is much easier. TbevA ea the dry weather come3 it Is easy to keep the surface stirred and establish a dust mulch which Is the finest protection against dry weather, keeps the soil moist so the roots can work and ameliorates the scorching rays of the midsummer sun which otherwise would, bake and crack the soil. A Lewis and Clarke Flower The Clarkia. a typically Ameri can plant, yet one that had to be taken to Europe to be developed before its possibilitites were thor oughly realized, is one of the prettiest of easily grown annuals, yet it la seen comparatively sel dom In the flower garden. It is a hardy and very easily grown an nual and Is particularly valuable for -gardens where the soil is rather light and sandy as it de lights in this soil condition. Tthe Clarkia was named after Capt. William Clarke, companion of Lewis, in the famous Lewis and Clarke exploring expedition to the northwest. It is a native of the northwestern part of the United States. It is coming into popular ity along with other old-fashioned annuals which florists have found grow very readily under green house conditions and furnish the finest sort of material for cutting. They vary from one to three feet high and burnish a series of beautiful soft pinks, salmons, 'rosy carmine and orange salmon shades with fine white varieties and come both double and single, the double varieties . being the more durable for garden display and cutting, When the plant reaches matur ity it sends forth buds from the axils of all its upper leaves, giving long spikes of bloom beautifully interspersed with the leaves. Some varieties give more definite spikes of bloom. Owing to the light and airy grace of these annuals they are particularly fine subjects to be used in window boxes where they may droop their wreaths of bloom over the edges. They will thrive -either In full sun or par tial shade. There are a number of named varieties offered by seeds men. If you are not familiar with this fine annual, it would be worth while to try a packet of mixed varieties merely to get ac quainted. The varieties can be identified easily from catalogue descriptions when they bloom. Sure Care for Baldness Eat yitamines and keep your hair on. That vitamines are a preventative- of baldness is a de duction that may be drawn from the latest scientific development of the chemistry ot diet. These elusive elements in food known as vitamines, found in fresh veg etables which are not too thor oughly cooked, are found to oc cupy a most Important position in sustaining life. Four vegetables are known to be specially strong in furnishing vitamines. These are cabbage lettuce, asparagus and tomatoes. Lettuce, being- procurable the year around in city markets, fur nishes the most constant supply among the vegetables, while or anges and some of the other fruits also help out. Lettuce, therefore, from a health standpoint, occupies a very Important place. It can be eaten almost daily in some form of salad without 1allhig -upon the appetite. Lettuce la an article of steady diet inf raanr families and should enter Jn.du the dietary of more. The , connection of vitamines with baldness came about through a recent meeting of the American Chemical society in Chicago. Some of the investigators of the society hack been experimenting upon vitamines, guinea pigs being the subjects. Guinea pigs were fed on a vitamlne diet In which lettuce formed a large part. Other guinea pigs were depriTed of a vitamlne diet. The vitamine-fed guinea pigs grew fat and healthy and glossy-coated. Those de prived of vitamines became slug gish and their hair fell out. For general purposes in the home garden, the romaine or cos lettuce will be found the most useful of the lettuce tribe. While it does not have the solid heads of the cabbage varieties, it does have their crispness with blanchea heart and fully as fine a flavor as any ot the head varie ties. Perrydale Club Asks for Assistance from Salem Perrydale Community club has written to the Salem Commercial club, asking for cooperation in getting the state to take up the building ot the road from McCoy I on the West Side highway, to strike the east and west road between Sheridan and Bellevue. This is the short-cut road from Salem to the coast for Tillamook and other points farther north. It is located partly in Polk and partly in Yamhill counties. The Perrydale people ask that the Sa lem club five them an audience to - come over and present their I argument, and then4 let the twe I Join forces Jn seeking state aid I in this important cut-oft hlgh- 1 way. J0BEU1N mis ABOUT M-U P E. E. Elliott of State Voca tional Board Also Speak er Before Club If all Salem could have heard F. W. Jobelmann ' tell the Com mercial club, Monday noon. about the City Beautiful, about the joys of the everlasting clean up and the profit and satisfaction in the dirtless. fresh-painted. hand laundered home town, they would be out with lanterns dig ging around the rose' bushes, rak ing the lawns, hoeing off the humps and shoveling smooth the holes, and stalking dandelions and thistles and common weeds with an axe. They would be buy ing mirrors and soap and sponges and scrub brushes, making the broom and the chlorid-of-lime can and the fly-swatter the city f !m.8,' : ttAd "ing sf ? ra ,Into It was a good start for a move ment that ought to mean a mint for Salem. There are rotting walks and flagrant - weeds and rats and skunk cabbage and un sightly logs growing on every street of the city, It Is said, and it would take a steady week, raining paint every minute, to paint up all the Salem houses that need it even for decent economy's sake. Mr. Jobelmann made enough 'of a hit with his volunteer clean-up cam paign, that he is" to present the case to the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, and the Realtors, making four dinner groups on successive days this week He speaks readily and the crowd cheered him when he closed. Professor E. E. Elliott, of the state vocational training bureau, was the main speaker ot the day He explained the scope ot his work, by showing that it is firstly and lastly an industrial and not a collegiate or "highbrow"' move ment, to teach better methods of Industry. It is based on the I Smith-Hughes law of congress, I passea in mi ana raunea in Oregon in 1919, that allows the 6uciuuini, io appiy iunas in ise States that Will match th fmtanl tnVAfltlHAnt ffta. tn ..nt wl t A tion. "It has three ex-officlo direc- tor?, the governor, the secretary ft flit O t A an1 t Vt A DinA eiinA.t.lA. dent of schools; and four appoint ed directors, . one being a' factory employer, one a farmer, one the president of the state federation oi iaDor, ana one member a wo man, -to lay out aad approve its work. There are three main ac- tivUIes; agriculture, trades and ndustries, and home economics. The work of the department is only with those above 14 years of age. Some of it is carried on through high schools. The Salem high school shops are maintained inruujn in is oureau. mere is a splendidly flourishing new auto school now operating in Salem, as well as a dressmaking class; a class, in nutrition, and others to be organized as industries that the government should recognize. Classes are being formed in papr mills, saw mills, lumber wherever there are young men and women ready enough to ask for such teaching service. inn BACK FROM IIP Associations of Portland, .1 acoma and beattle Are Visited by Party Seven tired but tickled young men toiled back into Salem Sun day night, from a tour days' tour of the Y. M. C. A. of the north west. They left Salem Thursday morning, to visit the big associa tions of Portland, Tacoma snd Seattle, and incidentally Olympia, Centralia and Chehalis. They did it all bat they certainlj wore corns on the car seats be fore they got through. They spent most of the day Thursday in Portland, leaving at 4:30 for Chehalis. The good roads were always lust over in the next county from where thej were. It was a desperately hard grind to drag their car throug) the mud. One, 65-mile stretct looked as if It had Just come out ot the Jason Lee discovery time, with coonskin cap, flintlock rifle and wampum for money. Instead of breesing into Chehalis for late supper; it was black and muddy midnight before they got to their destination. Friday they went on to Tacoma visiting Olympia on the way. They went, through the Tacoma Y with a fine-tooth comb, picking up all the good points that fine Institution offers. They went on to Seattle that night., and spent all day Saturday In the big town m They had expected to stay In Seattle until afternoon, Sunday, but because of the bad roads, they? started home at daylight Sunday and then it took them all day to get through. At Cen tralia they took dinner with H. A. Ghormley, who was with the Marion county Y a year ago, and is now community leader in Cen tralia. The trip was taken for the purpose of giving the young men a close insight into the big Y sys tem, as it is carried out in the larger cities. In all the three big associations, the department heads gave the boys their time for a full explanation of whatever they have of special interest. Ev erywhere the Salem boys made good impression. Four of the party are seniors In iWllamette taking a special course in' Y work with the idea of becoming directors Noble Moodhe. Everett Craven, Ben Rickli and Lester Day. The others of the party were A. C. McClaln, Edward Warren and C. A. Kells, secre tary of the Salem Y. BOligheV LU Tiber Company Starts Work Near Wren's Work was started a few days ago on the Doughey Lumber com pany mill near Wren's, on the railroad west of Corvallls. The company has a fine body of tini ber, and a mill that has been built up to a good production ability. It Is cutting railroad ties as a main output, with the side cut as small as possible. A dozen men are employed. W. H Trindle of Salem is' interested in the mill. While the tie business in gen eral has not been brisk, it is un derstood that a few other ties are being produced on contract. If the railroads should start buying all the ties they really need. there wouldn't be enough mills or men in uragon ana.wasnms ton to supply the demand, and not enough cars on all the vest ern railroads to haul them to their destinations. While no general replacement of ties for the whole country seema likely this year.1 a few ties ar4 "always required ifor repairs i mat simply can't be deferred,-and ( several . small Oreeon mill, are i now at work filling such orders.' I- - . WentY-FlVe SlUdentS lO Be Graduated at Chemawa I . Twenty-five graduates will re ceive their diplomas from Salem Indian school at Chemawa this year. Among these are four Black- feet Indian lads, the first, it is said, in the history of their tribe ever to graduate from any school, anywhere. They have been a numerous, warlike tribe, but their industries have never run deeply to books or head-work. These four Salem lads, who are among the finest, most progressive mem bers of the 1922 class, are the first contribution to serious in tellectual progress. The Indian school year is to close a week earlier this season than it did last. The baccalaur rmrm , May 28. and the commencmt' Dr0Der is on Wednesdav Mar 31 The whole of the last week will be devoted to student activities, land Superintendent Hall hopes to I have the townspeople of Salem more widely interested this year than ever before. The big class play is to be staged Tuesday night, May 30. Mauser Shotgun Product of Inventive Germans Something new has appeared In Salem, showing where Ger many has planned to turn part of the late war Into money. It is a Mauser shotgun, brought back from San Francisco by Pau Hauser. It is a rgeulation Mau ser rifle, with a new 12-gaug 8aotgun barrel 8UDStituted for the oia ruie barrel. It carries one shell in the receiver and one in the barrel, making it in effect a double gun. The old regulation 0 PAULDING OERVICE : Means a great deal to the builder. The fact that we furnish EVERY THING but the hard ware for building is a big factor in the satis faction of our custom ers. Spaulding Logging -v : Company military stock, with rudimentary pistol grip stands unchanged. save that the foreend Is shortened and a lighter butt plate is usd- The receiver frame is around away to let the larger shell into and out of the action. The front locking lugs have been ground off the bolt, leaving practically only one lur at the rear nf the bolt, to carry the shock ot the I ex) plosion. The gun weighs Just six pounds only a trifle heavier than an or dinary 22-calibre rifle. -It lifts almost like a toy gun. A spring steel shield is fitted over the top of the receiver on the left side; to guide the paper shot shell into the barrel. Germany had mil lions of rifles left over, that were not 'of much value for a nation mat isn i supposed to keep a whaling big army and so, they are turning them into these new peace arms for invading the whole shotgun world. PLAN YAKIMA CAMP YAKIMA, WTash.. April 25. A. A. Griffin, United States fores ter at Tacoma, is here today' and tomorrow morning will, go into the mountains in company with Yakima Y.M.C.A. officials to help locate a permanent association summer camping site. The for estry service has set aside 15 acres in the Rainier forest for camping by Yakima people. Eyesight Specialist MORRIS OPTICAL CO. 204-11 Salem Bank of Commerce Building Salem. Oregon ' A call today may save need less pain and suffering In the inture. OREGON PULP, & PAPER CO. . SALEM, OREGON High Grade Wrapping P&pers and "ii Paper Specialties A. C. Bohrnstedt Realtor Ufe, Fire, Health, Acci dent, Auto and Indemnity Insurance. Bonds and Mortgages, City Building Loans 407 Masonic Bldg., Salem. Or. OUR TREES Carefully Grown , ; Carefully Selected ' Carefully Packed Will Give Satisfaction to the r' -' '-'in'-pianter SALEM NURSERY COMPANY 428 Oregon Building s Phone 176S Additional Salesmen Wanted. Peerless Bakery Makers ot Peerless Bread Try Our Doughnuts 170 North Commercial St, Webb & Clough Co. Leading Funeral Directors ! Expert Embalmer 1 Cor. Court and High St. Phone 120 Silverton 1 Foundry Co. T Iron and; Brass Castincs SawxaiH and Logging Re pairs, Hop and Fruit Stores, Castings of aU kinds , SILVERTON, OREGON , . Phont- Green 911 - 260 North High Street Boost This Community by Adver tising on the Pep.and Progress v 1 Pages . y Statesman Classified 'Ads. s Cost Little But Pay Big :' Furnace for I .. your home -U Buy the Ore. i-J . son Made. W. W. ROSEBRAUGH CO. Foundry and Machine Shop . 17th and Oak Sts., Salem. Or. ' Phone 888 The show erica for July. Build .rent this I- 1 SALEM TILE MIERCApLE CO. Brick building tile, drawn tile . Phone 917 . Salem, Ore, TSirtnourit DAIRY Perfectly Pasteurized MILK AND CREAM Phone 725 .HAR3?WARE AHDFimNITUBE (JO, 220 N. Commercial Phone 1650 Street VSE BUTTERCUP BUTTER 1 Capital Gty Cooperative Creamery 1 57 S. Com! BL Phone 219 Onr Idea: Our Method: The Best Only Co-operation DRAGER FRUIT CO. Dried Frait Packert 221 S, High St Salem, Or, Always b the narketfor dried fruiis of all kinds THE CAPITAL s . ! BARGAIN HOUSE 1 Fiuys arid Sells Anything Associated with CAPITAL JUNK y) -'COMPANY 1H Center St V Phone StS Phone 19S5 HOTELrtlARION : SALEM, OREGON : The Largest and Moat Complete Hostelry in Ore gon Out of Portland Dodge Brothers SEDAN Bonesteelc HotorCo. HISS. Com! St, Phone 4SS Big crowds will gather round about To see flames take your borne. Bat when your loss Is figured oat You stand it all alone. Journal of Commerce statistics the following tire loeres In Am July 181 1. 120,118.8801 tor 1820. 828.188,828. of Hollow Tile and help pre waste. , '"WherelTht I i Crowds Alway, - ii :. Shop" li THE f jf PEOPLE'S a CASH STORE - -, . - - . - , , SALEM, OREGON 1 "S1BLOCO" Pipeless Furnaces $79.60' t; ; And Up , Send for circultf ' Silvertop Blov MPipe Co. iM SILVERTON, OREGON r W. T. Rigdon & i Son Prosresglva ' Funeral Directors SALEM Statesman Advertisers . .-'HaTe'''-; ff5PEi Consequently Their Bus . :: : . iness rShows ;J f PROGRESS A :VTHE . BOY SCOUTS 1 deserve the support cf " everyone who wishes ? to Inculcate high pria 5 clples of manhood Into . t.he youth of our Izxii, This space paid for by Thiel3en & Rahn