8 Sec 2)-TStatesaatL Salem. .Time Is Ripe To Knock Out :Wheat Smut The situation this fall is ripe . Sor a knockout blow against smut "In wheat,' Washington State Qri- lege experts declared Friday. While smut is not so bad in the Willamette Valley wheat fields as In the fields of Eastern Oregon and Washington, the situation ' has been growing worse in the valley. However, the smut infes tation in the 1953 crop of wheat is reported as the lightest in " ears. Oregon State College plant pathologists have credited this to dry weather last falL V The weather may help Pacific "Northwest wheat growers lick the smut problem this year, the ex-i-perts said Friday. But the grower ;-has to help. Z There wasn't enough moisture I to germinate the wheat until late -sin. the winter last year, but smut .-spores germinated and perished ?for lack of anything to feed upon. This brings the matter up to Sjflate, Dr. MR. Harris, WSC plant -.pathologist says. He suggests that farmers can all but wipe out the Common smut threat this, year if Mhey wait for a goocLsoaking rain .before planting. : The rain will germinate the ?mut spores. With nothing to feed .cn, they will die in a week or T;two, leaving the soil free of in Mection for the wheat planting. .! Dr. Harris said farmers should ' iollow through by treating the 'seed wheat with approved chemi- - mmlm in miVi aur ffiav Ann't TUlt .the infection back into the soil HEADS WAR MOTHERS . WILLAMINA Mrs. Thelma Edwards of Willamina was elect ed vice-president of the Oregon War Mothers at the convention held in Albany. She, with Mrs. Josephine Rumrill and Mrs. Effie Morrison, were delegates to the . convention from the Willamina , Chapter. rn o m To Recover Those Tattered Shades o We Give Fast, Efficient Service Inst 10 -Out at 5 o We Use Best Quality Materials. DuPont Tontine - Columbia Mills ;0 We Have Reasonable Prices Free Estimates - Free Delivery CAPITAL SHADE & DRAPERY SHOP Manufacturers of Salem Venetian Blinds (Formerly Reinholdt & Lewis) 560 S. 21st St. Phone 2-3639 SIS) , s 'A m :5 Open Fridcry ETonlngs ? m J; ;Spark is lhe Only Healer which will Operale Orsw Sunday Sept 20. 1953 , Here9 s That Tree oil Postoffice Laich -it.. I 1 -' .! n't Pictured above is the lace tree (Albbma) on the Salem Postofflce lawn which has attracted more at tention and brought more questions to The Statesman, garden editor- than anything growing in Sa lem. (Statesman Photo by John Erickson.) Jersey Sets Good Production Mark SILVERTON A production of 6,669 quarts of milk in 305 days on official Herd Improve ment Registry test is the recent accomplishment of a registered Jersey cow owned by James G. Phillips, Silverton route 2. The cow, Standard Pioneer Bonny, produced 14,339 pounds of milk containing 809 pounds of butterfat at the age of 5 years and 6 months. Phillips who was in partner ship with his father-in-law, Silas Torvend, until recently, now owns the herd of registered Jerseys. V f Sot, k't vuw now! What tlse can w expect thii month! It woa1 Um we'll guaruM that! Tbta, aMf avkiU RU b COLD ... - , -: . very COLD! And you'll wast Ifstk oil bmrmil kttir tafa, ore. acoaooucal cure foe COLD. Beautiful m pofcelaia iniiet ( Why M( think ahead buy ahead! Buy a Spark thia month. Vkit your Spark, oil heacer dealer bow, aad be aura of wiater comfort, C winter aad for years ahead. rti" 111 fill Garden BY LILLIE L. MADSEN Garden Editor, The Statesman With bloom slackening a little, it is an easy time in the fall to forget all the chores that should be done now to make for a better spring garden. Included in the chores should be, first of all, the clean-up. All dead foliage such as that of roses, hollyhocks, peonies, should be gathered up and burned. There is too much disease in some of these to throw them on the com post .heap for wintering over. Foli age of your shade trees and even your weeds which have sprung up so nicely since the rain, make good composting. But plants that carry disease spores either rust, mildew, blackspot, or anything of this nature, should be destroyed. Then comes a clean-up. Some of this should be done now, some not until later. However, roses should receive a couple of good sprayings or dustings yet this fall. The peach trees, both ornamental and fruiting, should be sprayed before the end of September, while the foliage is still on. Too many orchards and home peach trees have' serious damage to the fruit from spring and summer infections of fung us. As soon as the fruiting peach trees have been harv ested, they should be sprayed. If possible, do this before any more fall rains arrive. Use a Bordeaux mixture of S-ft-100. You can get this at your favor ite garden store. While some of the other sprays seem satisfac tory, Don Rasmussen, Marion County agent, specializing in horticulture, advises that be cause infections have been se vere this year, Bordeaux mix ture is the best material. Spray ing should be doae thoroughly. The peach leaf curl spray dur ing January will maintain the pro tection started now. It is also well to prune out all dead wood and branches from your trees, lawn or orchard, and paint over any wounds. Around your rhododendrons and azaleas use one more soaking of a soil spray to get any late root weevils feeding before they lay-low for the winter. -A third chore to consider at this time of year is the fill feed ing. So many of yon hear and see it written that "it is now too late to feed" and you just .3? FOR SEARS REPAIR rrVS ' SERVICES EeJ ty Here's onomor good reason why t Jjgr' . pays to Shop at Soars and Savof Any- I Cfcfmo 3 you purchase at Soars . . . oloc- k -gg j " hfcalcRiechankot...cofi be repaired Q ' m our own Service DoportiwewH Youfl Eke the results . . the low cost of re pair ... the Quick return of your artide. Al work is expertly rJano by trained Soars sorvko- T men who'UM onhr the finest aauinn t rmA . replacement parts. : SEARS , t By Lillie L,' Blacken r V i. Cabbing stop without reading further that while it is too late for cer tain kinds of feeding, there are other kinds that give far better results if done in the falL It is too late, yes, for feeding for bloom this falL But it is just time to feed for next season's growth and bloom. Feed your lilacs now with bone- meaL This is much better than giving them too much feed in the spring, which frequently causes a blight. Your maples and your birches, too, benefit from a dose of bone- meal at this time of the year. After you have weeded and cleaned up the rhubarb and the asparagus beds, they too benefit from a feeding in the falL Get all the weeds out of these two beds at once. 'Late August rains should have sprouted most of the weeds which will grow. This ap plies too. to the family strawber ry bed. If well taken care of, such a bed can last for a number of years, continuing to give good xrult in good quantity. The feeding of the rhubarb and asparagus is best done through well decayed manure or humus material mixed with some phosphate. This should be left on top of the ground and not worked into the soil in the falL Don't work the beds down too smoothly and don't pack them. Leave them rough enough to permit moisture to penetrate. While many folk believe in set ting out new rhubarb every three or four years, old beds will also do well if taken care of. If you do plan to replant your rhubarb, prepare the bed now. giving it a good feeding of manure. Then leave it until spring and plant your divisions in the new bed while you are still using some of the old plants. However, the new divisions will give you some stalks the year they are planted. It is time, too, to be preparing to take care of your fuchsias and begonias. Longtime weath er forecasts promise as some heavy frosts before the middle of October. While these long term 'forecasts are sometimes wrong, they are correct a sur prising number of times, and it would be much better, in. the. case of fuchsias, to be safe than sorry. The plants, most of them that is, stand a little frost with- 14 . j J-l Jl taaww-" I l ' 1 Questions - Question Have a number of Croft Easter, Lillie. Some have bloomed, 'some were too smalL Should bulbs be left in ground or removed for winter? CWS. Answer Leave the bulbs in the ground. Maintain a two-inch mulch of peat moss or , sawdust over the lily bulbs. Question Win the bougainvil leas do in this location? It a Da tura Fastussa perennial? How . to make bottle garden? V.T. Answer No, I'm sorry the Bou gainvilleaa will not do in our cli mate. They won't even thrive in, Northern California. So many folk who go south return to ask if this vine will do here. It is at it best arounl Santa Barbara and from there on south. It is one of the most showy vines of the south. I do not know this particular member of the Datura group, nor do I find it listed in my books. However, most of the Daturas are treated as tender annuals. Making a bottle garden requires much deftness in planting. Usu ally long, thin nippers of some sort are needed. Moss is placed down in the container, coming up a little on the sides. With the nippers, , carefully place very small woodland plants and fill in around their roots with rich loam and more bits of moss. Col orful effects are obtained by us ing bits of .tree-growing fungi, twigs and so on. Watering these out permanent injury, but too much will do away with them completely. Usually a little wa ter is withheld, so that growth is not quite so lush, before the plants are put away in your sawdust or peatmoss storage for winter. The plants should not be com pletely dry when put away, but neither should they be too wet. Nipping of a little frost will not hurt the fuchsias. In fact many growers never put them away un til the first frost has dropped their foliage. After the first frost has killed the foliage on the begonias, they should be prepared for winter storage. Frequent frosts will al so kill the bulb. It seems too bad to be talking about frosts and putting away the flowers for winter when they are still blooming so nicely Those who have a little home green house are very fortunate. As win ter approaches they can just hang their plants in and continue to enjoy them for a spell yet. However, even these benefit by a little rest. They may be kept blooming up until late December, and then permitted to decline, without ever drying out, for a couple of months, being started up in mid-March for spring bloom again. Guernsey Sets . I;5: - , t-:o to Western Glow Butterfat Miss, which a year ago won the Guernsey Tarbeil Trophy, has just made the highest production record ever attained by a 13-year-old Guernsey, according to The American Guernsey Cattle Club. Owned by Western Glow Farms, Bow, Wash., she produced 21,573 pounds of milk and 1,095 pounds of butterfat in 365 days on two-times daily milking. Her record last year was 17,585 and 921, made in 305 days. New Patented i . - ; Vacuum Cleaning Equipment TO SERVICE AND CLEAN All DOMESTIC AND COMMERCIAL HEATING UNITS, , ' CHIMNEYS & DUCT SYSTEMS All Work Guaranteed by . C Jo Cfaiaseiii Established Iron Fireman Dealers ;FO SEXVICt AND 272S Portland Id. - - Answers terraniuma or bottle gardens must be done in moderation one in 10 days or so. If the lids fit tight ly, and the terrarium is given enough water, it may.be safely left for month or more without attention. As the moisture con denses on the cool glass it drips back into the garden. But .water must not be left standing around the roots, ; or the soil becomes sour and soggy., . Questions-Have been told that gat will kill African Violets. Have gas for Cooking and just was given a new, African, Violet. Have nev er had any success with these be fore. Wonder if gas could be the cause? SJL Answer Yes, gas in the home sems to be poisonous to African Violet as well as some other house plants. ev Question When should I take up my tulip bulbs? Want them to winter over? A.W. Answer Anytime, now. Lift and shake off the dirt and old husks. Store in a dry place, until early October' when you should replant them. You do not store them Indoors as you do gladioli corms. . . 0 9 Question Have been told that moles eat only bugs and worms,' yet my parsley is all wjlted and when I started -to pull it up, I found the roots all eat off and a runway beneath it' How do you explain this? S.L. Answer Mice eat the roots, and mice run1 in the runways of moles. Poison grain or a carrot dipped in paris green will con trol the mice. However, great care should be taken to get the poison into the hole so that no birds, pets or children get a bold of it. Question Have a small green house and want to start some del phinium seed for next season's bloom. When should I do this? Can winter it over in the green house. Would it be best to wait until Jimiirv? N C Answer; Start the seed now but keep it growing on the cool side until spring. Frequently small plants of delphiniums are wintered over in cold frames. . Question Have had trouble with bud rot on my peonies. What to do to control this so I have some good bloom next spring? A.I. Answer Pick all leaves, stems and buds 'off and burn. Do not place any manure or other mulch over the plants. It might be well to remove the top soil from around the infested plants, or transplant them into a different location in your garden. In spring when growth begins, spray soil around crowns with bordeaux Milk Record ' - : . r k ' ' it f - '..) J FIXE ESTIMATES mixture. Spray plants four or five times at intervals of a week in the early spring. And even with all this care you may have the blight, but eventually with cor Percival Jones By DonJdn Bros. , "Mom could fix lunch a lot faster if you'd get her that range from, the PROPANE GAS APPLIANCE CO." ! Gas Appliances Are Tho Boat 3367 Portland Rd. Ph. 3-5038 Call 2-1500 CandK Lumber Yard 852 N. Lancaster Dr. Salem, Oregon 4 I NOTICE . . . Oar Self -Service GRAND OPENING has been changed lo a later dale. F. A. Doerfler Si Sons NURSERY ; . 250 N. 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