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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1955)
Questions - - Answers Question Why is rHvet sand to pack I do not-recommend supposed to be less good than ; sharp sand over river sand for the sharp builders sand? I notice j everything, but there are times in everything you advise the iharp sand. Is it because it costs something? Are garden editors paid by companies like that? Truly, I'm not being sar castic. Just want to know. C.H.B. Answer Sharp sand continues to move and work itself in around plants, and rn case of being used on lawns around the grass roots. River sand has a tendency Tennessee City Plans Smelly Tourist Event By BILL RAWLINS COSBY, Tenn. ( This moon shine capital of Tennessee wants to grow up to be a tourist center. So it figured out a pretty smelly may to do it. Come the weekend of April 23. the Festival of the Ramps will et underway when it is preferable. I have had very good luck with beach sand around ferns, and many other plants. It is very good used where garden slugs travel a lot Garden editors are paid by the 'newspapers which employ them, certainly not by garden supply -companies. j Question How late can one plant evergreens? Just got a lot of them and have hilled them in, and would like to order some more. C.Y. i Answer Advisable to plant as soon as possible. Evergreens need a good start to withstand the first summer, particularly if it should be a hot, dry one. Mulch soil around them well, and water, particularly the first year, during dry weather. i Question Have a small pod of African Violet seed ripening now. Was told to sterilize soil before planting it Would you tell me how to sterilize it? And don't wait too long to answer as I want to be ready to plant as soon as seed is ready. O.M.A. Answer Take seven parts Many Annuals 'Designed9 for Areas Around New Trees ' f 1 Statesman, Salem, Or., Sunday, April 17, 1953-(Stc. 1-11 Snapdragons (left) do veil in mass planting and are good plants to use around a newly planted tree as they tolerate filtered shade. Powderpuffs Asters (right), a small-growing aster, are a "find" for summer color along the walk of a newly constructed house. Here they are shown edged with lobelia. , r ' : To explain to the uninitiated: A good garden loam, one part peat Quick Color For, New Home Easy to Get ramo is first cousin to the My of the valley. It smells roughly like a cross between an onion and a garlic plant, liberally seasoned with vinegar. Some folks in thee parts .regard it as a great deli cacy; the rest eat it in self de fense. You might think the ramp would drive away more tourists than it would attract, but the first ramo or iealmcld, one part sand. Drench with a 1 to 50. solution The easiest way to get quick color around a new home is with annual flowering plants, whether you buy these or plant them from seed. Even established gar- fv formaldehyde, and let stand one of ar(Jen tM " b annuals. One of the problems of new home owners is generally the rubble left by the builders and thoughtfully covered over with week before sowing seed. When seed is ripe remove from pod. spread over prepared soil, and press gently in. Cover lightly with sharp sand. Keep soil moist, but not soaking wet until ger- v .. w e.-- i . .... ...... . minated. Germination is assisted ! f "ougn ain so mai you oon i if m rnuor kv u,ifh oiacc Rut I know it s there until yot turn feast last year drew a crowd of! remove gless as soon as seed has!uvc.1 11151 s"uveilul u s 20.000. With Harry S. Truman as 1 germinated an aaaea attraction, 50.000 are ex pected this year. . This is quite a throng for a com munity that Is nothing more than a country stor and a post office, run by one of the few Democrats arrund, Mrs. Glennie Kate Harri son. No Grudges i Cosby is known as a nastion of Old Guard Republicanism, and Truman polled only 20 out of 400 votes cast for President in 1948. But there are no grudges on either sideband the former President will be the festival's main speaker and receive a 2l-gun salute. The festival is largely the achievement of David R. Large, who retired to his native Cosby two years ago after 25 years in the federal prison service. "Wherever I went in the prison service." Large says, "I had some body in from Cosby, for moonshin lng. They didn't moonshine be cause they wanted to. but because their farms weren't large enough to support a family. "If they were ,in jail, their fam ilies often were better off finan cially on . relief." This didn't look to Large like a very good basis for a prosperous future. Grow Wild When Large was elected presi dent of Cosby's. Ruritan Club, he began casting around for ideas. He thought of ramps allium tricoc cunt, to botanists which grow wild above the 3,000 foot level and are gathered In by the mountain eers about the middle of ADril each year. The idea of the Ramp Festival followed. . Truman will speak on Sundav. April 24. The night before, a play written by Cosby'a Delmar Bax ter in the hill country dialect and depicting the Cosby story will be . presented by local actors. j On the big day 25 acres of green Smoky Mountains foothills are re- . served for the festival crowd. One hundred State Highway Patrolmen are expected to be on hand to handle traffic The festival is free, but proceeds from a feed of barbecued chicken and ramps cooked with , fatback will be kept by the Ruritan Club for civic development. Visitors are expected to hunt up their own moonshine. C From such a beginning Cosby hopesjto emerge as amourist cent er. It has rough competition. Gat Iinburg, headquarters of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Is only 17 miles away. j 1 Question Was told that you gave a control for black cherry apblds. Had one tree in the back yard last year and this was badly bothered. Misted the informa tion you gave as we just started taking Statesman. Would you repeat? B.W. ! Answer Robert Every. Oregon State College entomologist, says that malathion dust is an im provement over the previous control program with nicotine sulphate. The dust is used be fore trees reach the "popcorn stage" in bloom. ).- i Question Want to prune my common hydrangea. It has doz ens cf stalks and I haven't cut off last year's bloom yet but we didn't leave them. We just moved into this place scold. S.J. 1 Answer Cut to the ground some of the old stalks which still have the flower heads. Be care ful not to break buds off the shoots which did nrA bloom last year. Try to prune out enough to keep a well balanced plant J ' Question Have been told you answer some building questions. Would you please tell us if it is all right to place the wood rlaht on top of the concrete in build ing a house? We are just build ing a small garage to live In first but want a wooden-floor over the cement. G.A.T. : Answer Carpenters tell me that the masonry vand wood should be separated by a strip of some damp-proof material. Wood should not be placed di rectly on cement. Question Can you tell me if there is some chemical to absorb moisture in a room? Have been told there is- and would like to know what it is. H.H.K. Answer There are several products which take up vapor moisture from the atmosphere. Calcium chloride crystals are among those most frequently used. You can even get elec trical dehumidifiers. put in at tractive cabinets These are sold at electrical appliance stores. So don't! ,roun( s0 that you have poor spoil, in mese try sweet aiys sum, like Royal Carpet; cosmos, Quite often the rubble contains plaster left from the final plas tering of the house and since this is mostly lime, only certain plants will do well there. Unless. you have removed suffi cient soil, and replaced this with a good soil free from any trace of lime, don't plant rhododen drons, azaleas or camellias. If you want color this first summer, try stocks or wallflowers. The dian- thus of the species commonlv called "China Pinks" or "Japan Pinks," give a long-lasting bloom ing period, and amaranthus a good big, quick growth. Some, such as Love Lies Bleeding or Fountain Plant, grow six feet tall and are good summer screen plants. Flowers for Poor Soil Oftentimes, in new construe h I 1 I I ,M-Hf A r -1 A 1 tit " 1 4... . New patios need a tree, but the tree needs unpaved space around It so that it can get food and water. Annuals such as lobeli.1 fill this space with color, yet do not take nourishment from the deep tree roots. ' Wilson, Dulles To Administer Aid Program New Weevil Control Said To Work Well Longer life for Oregon berry plants and ornamentals now ap pears possible through control of strawberry root weevils which are among the state's most damaging insect pests. New insecticides under test at the Oregon State college experi ment itation are winning the bat tle against root weevil larvae or "grubs" that feed on roots and crowns of strawberry, caneberry, mint tnd nursery plantings. ' R, G. Rosenstiel, OSC research entomologist, leveloped the control program using soil treatments for new plantings tnd surface applica tions on established fields. Al though .the tests were conducted with strawberry plantings, the sci entist aaya the findings will serve as a general guide in reducing damage to other plants. .' Soil treatment is limited to new fields or garden plots before plant ing time, since the insecticide must be worked thoroughly into the top six inches of soil. Five to ten pounds of active ingredient per acre of either dieldrin or hep tachlor gave best results in the OSC trials. Chlordane or aldrin at the same rates were less effective, but Rosenstiel says any of the treatments will give weevil con trol for at least three bearing years. JAPANESE INCOMES TOKYO on The National Tax Board lists Toshio Hue, president of Sanyo Electric Co., as having the highest 1954 income in Japan. He earned 113 million yen ($273, 000.) No other Japanese reported earnings in excess of 100 million yen. In 1953 there were two. Fiftv- one Japanese reported more than' 20 million yen ($35,000.) ITOOL TIPS! AP Nwtfoturs ARMOREDelectrical cable can be cut easily with a hacksaw if you improvise a holder with a scrap of 2 by 4 and some nails as shown in this sketch. Practical: Builder magazine says this jig will keep the saw from jumping and hanging up on the rough metal. English Village Ruled' By Six Grandmas Bitot's ITCHLNliTU.N. Eng land 1 , This village of 1,100 is ruled by six grandmas plus one man. Mrs. Edith Chappie-Hyman, 58, became a grandmother to put her on a par with five other members of the villaee ' council. The sixth member is Trank Moore. RENT A TOOL Do It Yourself. It's1 Cheaper OPEN SUNDAYS Salem's Oldest Tool Rental HOWSER BROS. 1180 South 12th St Automobiles provide transports, tion to their jobs for 74 per cent of U. S. workers. Top Quality Plants FOR LESS Middlegrove Nursery 4920 Silverton Road AUGUSTA, Ga. Of) President countries during the fiscal year vising authority over actual per- Eisenhower Saturday outlined starting July 1. ation of the economic aid phase tion, the topsoil has been moved plans for transferring all phases Of the total, around $2,140,500,000 of the program. nasturtiums, portulaca or moss! from the Foreign Operations Ad rose, and celosias like the 1955 : ministration of the government's anti-Commu-i will go to step up such aid to non- Operational authority over the nist foreign aid program to the ( Communist nations in Asia. military aid aspects will remain State and Defense Departments! The State Department all along with the Defense Department, has had policy supervision of the which also will take over from foreign aid program. Under the FOA certain other military de- All American Winner, Toreador Celosia, which will give you bril liant scarlet bloom if- you keep it well watered. . Snapdragons will flower in poor soil, although your results will be better If you feed each plant a teaspoon of balanced plant food after it is well estab lished. These handsome plants look fine all by themselves in a mass planting and are especially good in the space you should One Owyhee Reservoir Rising Rapidly study of school children showed that .pone of the group with f April. normal vision laueci in ineir siua-j Paul ics. dui mat a per cent ot.tnose who had visual troubles failed, f ONTARIO. Ore. W The water storage in the Owyhee Reservoir increased more than 50.000 acre feet in the first two weeks in EVERGREEN SHRUB SALE IRISH JUNIPER PYRAMIDAL CYPRESS EIWOODI CYPRESS PLUME CYPRESS BLUE CYPRESS WISSILLI CYPRESS CREEK JUNIPER These shrubs are 3 to 4 ft. high at S2.50 each. Camellia' 3-yr.-old name varieties, $1.00 each. Al's Fruit Stand on Highway 99E. Just north of Woodburn. Woodburn 2 0719, House, manager of the North Board of Control of the project, said the reservoir con tained 209.000 acre-feet April 1. On Thursday it contained 260,330 acre feet. V allow around a new tree as they , the President's vacation headquar tolerate filtered shade. iters here. The plans will be for- Good sunny spots, such as right malized in an executive order to next to steps or a walk are good be issued shortly, for asters, which come in so The transfer outline was an many sizes and shapes it's . easy nounced as the President made to find one that is just right. By .ready to send Congress a special Student Forms Dating Bureau Foa. which has been handling new P'an '"PC- tans. the multi-billion-dollar program the last two years, is scheduled to go out of business June 30. The President already has named the agency's director. Mar old E. Stassen, to a new job special assistant to the chief exec utive on disarmament problems. 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