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I FUTURE 2NO FLOOR. -t J BED RM. r I BED RM . iv-a" ."" 111 17-a q -a" U P i 1 6 1 . 1,4 -C , . . FIRST FLOOR PLAN IT lotch.I dining l1B' Ibedrm.I 7:io",ir-4 Rm- tnN UVllsSG RM. EE BED U.M. Blending California and Cape Cod ideas, this small house is based on the most popular Long Island plans since the war. Although it covers only 828 square feet, a basement and expansion attic give it a generous capacity. It has 18,216 cubic feet. A large tilted window, rising from a stone flower box, and high awning type windows hinged at the top are among features. This is Plan 2661 by Rudolph A. Matern, 90-04 161st St., Jamaica 2, N. Y. (AP Wirefeatures) Foods Consumed by Healthy Plants Same as Humans Use By JOHN H. HANLEY, PhD DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . the foods which plants consume in their normal, healthy growth are EXACTLY the same as the foods which we humans use? That flower, or tree, or vege table, out in the garden is just as dependent upon sugars, starches, proteins and minerals for it's existence as are we? The big difference lies in the fact that the growing plant makes all its own . . . out of gases from the air, water and minerals from the soil, and with the vital assis tance of the sun. Here is the ab solutely basic combination upon which ALL LIFE ON EARTH DEPENDS. Every animal, either directly or indirectly, owes it's continued existence to the green , plants of the field and forest. Healthy plants, gorged with their full complement of foods and minerals, form the absolute basis of a healthy people in a healthy civilization. That is why it is so important that the fertilizer the farmer puts on his fields be so constituted that it will pass along to our tables all the as sorted chemicals we need for proper' development of healthy bodies and minds. Even in our home gardens, we should give thought to using those fertilizer materials which will yield to the plants and, through them, 'to the human body, the things which they, and we, must have. Though the detailed deficiencies in soils vary greatly from garden to garden, and from section to section, there are a few rather fundamental ideas which apply most everywhere. (1) If you buy one of the so-called "com plcte" fertilizers for use on any kind of plants, it should be a well balanced one. Try to be sure that it contains not only the right amount of nitrogen but that it includes enough phos- nUnV..e an4 nt..eU (jiiviuo aim iuLasii, luu . enough to make up for the lack of these twp which is character ; istic of the soils In your district, '. PLAN2S6l By so doing, you are doing the first and most important thing to offset one of our prime garden problems, namely, to answer the question, "Why does my shrub (or tree, or flower) produce so few blooms and fruits?" Phos phorus and potash are very closely involved here. (2) The best fertilizers seem to be those which have AN ORGANIC base (poultry, sheep or other man ures, or packing-house refuse). There are several outstandingly fine ones available. (3) What is usually lacking in the ordinary fertilizer, (and it must there fore be supplied by using booster mixtures or compost makers which contain same) is a well- balanced supply of the "minor' elements (minerals) which both healthy plants and healthy ani mals require. (4) It is ALWAYS wise to supplement the' fertilizer with the regular, annual use of organic matter either dug in, or as mulches (peats, compost, leaf mold, manures, sawdusts, etc.) MADONNA LILIES ... at this season often begin to show signs of the disease which makes them look like scalped Indians by the time they open their lovely white blooms in June. Watch the ends of the leaves and, if they begin to look discolored and "watery", you've got it! It's the Botrytis disease, control for which should begin when the plants are five or six inches high. Use a dust or spray containing copper or ferbam, not once, but several times at ten-day inter vals as the stalks stretch upward. This is also the time of year to put on your first dust or spray for those pests which draw the young foliage together at the tips of the stems of many garden plants (the leaf tiers). Best for JOHNSTON POWER MOWER Open ln eve, lur and SUN. WW Planning Planning a garden, an annual ever-changing job, is a pretty complicated activity. A garden is a highly personal thing, as much a part of its own er as his handwriting. It re flects his taste, his pride and his personality. If one gardens at all, one must put plenty of thought into it. Armchair gardening, pleas ant as it is, Is deluding. Most of us outline on paper a pro gram far too ambitious to car ry out satisfactorily. Once we dig up and plant more than we can tend in available time, we're faced with letting the whole grounds look seedy and run-down, hiring expensive assistance, or losing much of our pleasure by having to work too hard keping things in control. Everyone should have a real istic conversation with himself about the amount of work he wants to do in the garden. A small, well-tended garden is in finitely to be preferred to a big one, if it isn't going to get the attention it needs. Even a small bed of flowers requires a big investment in time and work, and if that time is grudgingly spent, its better to invest trees, shrubs and grass and let it go at that. So before drawing the essen tial garden map and plan, de cide how much work you want to do. If you want to be a Sat urday gardener, don't spade up the entire north forty. If you propose to put in a couple of hours each night after work and spend a two-day week-end with spading fork and hand-weeder, the garden can be larger. No one can measure your strength and enthusiasm but yourself, and at this time of year you are very apt to be deceived by your own esti mates. Take it easy and have your garden too small rather than too large. You can al ways expand later. Another important decision is the location of the garden itself, It's not entirely a matter of the richness of soil and how the sun hits your property, Think also of the family's outdoor living habits. A garden may be an outdoor living room and as such should be planned as an extension of the house. It may be a cutting garden, a mass of color you want to enjoy from a distance. In any event, it should be placed in harmony with the rest of the - ground's landscaping. It should be plan ned in related units so that its owner won't spend most of the time tidying up a chopped up series of beds and plantings. It's never too late to repair mistakes. If the rose garden at the corner was a mess be cause everyone took short cuts across it, you can always transplant the roses, resecd and try a new area. If the vegetable garden proved to be an extension of the chil dren's playground, that too can be moved or fenced in. The point is to know what you want from a garden. If it's vegetables, its location will be slightly different than the spot you d pick for the mass plantings of gladiolus. Once these matters are ironed out, it's time to reach for the tape measure, the paper and pen cil and get ahead with the busi ness of planning the garden it self what goes into it and what you want to take out of it. home garden use are the superb all-purpose dusts, available at every seed store. The all-pur- FOR RARE & UNUSUAL DWARF EVERGREEN SHRUBS Shade Trees Flowering Trees Rosei VISIT Nelson's Nursery 14 Mile East of Silverton on Marquam Road PHONE 4291 - Silverton, Oregon Ask About Our Econjmical Landscaping Service SOW ScChttL LAWN StfO Each pound contains 3,000,000 seeds bursting with energy to build a velvety lawn. Economical because you need only half at much a of ordinary seed. 1 lb -$1.45 5 lbs-$6.93 SPECIAL PURPOSE BUND -(or d..p hod, dritr oili, torrocM, play artai 1 lb $1.15. LAWN POOD compltto grou food, provtdf-i all nutrients nttdtd for healthy growth. Economical. foidi 1,500 , ft-$1.95 log food 11,000 .0, ft- 7.50 a Garden Planning Planting It's best Sowing Seeds Really Means Instructions on the seed pack ets of cucumbers, bush and vine type squash, pumpkins, melons and some other crops that like plenty of space to spread out, usually say to "sow in hills." Beginners would naturally suppose that this means in mounds, elevated above the sur rounding surface. But in most sections of our country, it means a point, as distinguished from a line, and is more likely to be hollow than mound. Only where , the ground is so low that it does not drain well, or rainfall may be so heavy it runs off slowly, should garden hills be elevated. Sweet corn is sometimes sown in hills, three plants to a hill, though the practice of growing this crop in drills is spreading. Hills are lined up in a straight row, and spaced at equal dis tances apart. The usual prac tice is to dig a shallow hole with a trowel, mix plant food with the soil in the bottom, fill soil on top of this, and then place the seeds, using a few more than plants are to be grown This is to make sure that enough come up; if more grow than are wanted, the surplus ones are thinned out. In well drained gardens, it may be advisable to leave s slight depression above the seeds, since most of the varieties sown in hills are tender, and are sown late when warm weather dries the soil and rains have become less frequent than in the early spring. A depression will con centrate the moisture from light rains and heavy dews, to speed LUMBER 2x4 to 2x8 surfaced framing for sale, some priced as tow as $15.00 per thousand. Must be seen to be apprec iated. Also boards and shiplap. Buy your lumber where it's made and save. Also estimates on mill work, etc., gladly given, Huddleston Retail Lumber Yard At Evans and B. P. Si S. Mills Route Z Silverton, Ore. Phone 4012 You can broadcait SCOTTS bv hand- but it'i quick tr, more co. nomleol with a SCOTTS SPREADER $10.85. Is a Job n to know before you grow. in Hills, in Hollows up germination of the seed. To facilitation cultivation, each hill should be marked by a stake until ,the seeds begin to grow. When the hills are accurately lined cultivation between rows may be carried out with the same ease as between drills; and a hand-hoe can be used to keep down weeds in the row. Did You Know That It takes 30 gallons of water to fill the average bathtub, 30 gal lons for the average shower bath, average lawn sprinkler uses 120 gallons per minute and V garden hose with nozzle uses 275 per minute? In 1940 there were 37,300,000 dwelling units, of which 2,500, 000 were vacant? To budge a sticking drawer, soap or paraffin along the top and bottom sliding edges is a good first-aid measure, but in a serious case the edges may have to be sanded down? Nearly a million families paid off home mortgage debts last year? KEMGLO TRADE MARK STAY-WHITE Ry 98V Until May 31, IMO Try a pint of KEM GLO, in white that stays white, at only 98, Today A pint covers up to 50 square feet. 10 lovely colors in quarts and gallons. Pints in Stay white only. '2.39 Qt. 7.98 Gal. Get your PINT of KEM GLO Stay-white at only 98, TODAY! Bring this ad to J. Paul Campbell Co. Downstairs at R. L. ELFSTROM CO. Ph. 2-2493 PROTECT YOUR HOME . . . . from excessive time and weather-wear . . , give it added charm and personal ity, by refreshing woodwork, siding and walls with eco nomical DUTCH BOY PAINTS. Easy to brush, they dry to a beautiful fin ish in a fraction of the time usually required. Stop in and see our charming color charts today! 4. ' f 'Mi 14 acalLj&a SPECIAL ,1 Con vectors Gain By Saying Space In Small Homes No matter how large your home is, space is always a prob lem. But in the small, compact homes which are so popular to day, the element of space affects the amount of furniture you can buy, how it is arranged, and your entire living pattern with in the home. That is why stationary units within the home are so import' ant they can permit flexible decoration or they can severely limit it. It many homes this problem of space is eased by the use of recessed convector-radia- tors, which are much more at tractive than cast iron radiators and take up much less than half the space. Ideal with steam or hot water heating systems, these convectors can be recessed fully or partly into the wall, thus en larging the space available for furniture and other accessories Small bathrooms especially utilize convectors to advantage. A certain number of units are es sential to every bathroom, and all of them except the heatinff outlet must stand out from the walls. Thus the convector, when recessed into the wall, prefer- aDiy beneath the window for GUTTERS AND DOWNSPOUTS WE WORK IN . . . Aluminum Galvanized Iron Copper Stainless Steel Salem Heating & Sheet Metal Co. 1085 Broadway Dial 3-8555 I'LL BET WE OFFER A SERVICE YOU CAN USE Rototilling Lawn Care Lawn Planting Lawn Sprinklers Installed Landscaping Pruning, Trimming House Cleaning JIM HATHAWAY Service Contractor Phone 3-4241 All Work Done bv Experienced Personnel ALL WORK GUARANTEED Planting Time PERENNIALS DELPHINIUMS, CAMPANULAS, PHLOX, AUBRIETIA, PYRETHRUM, CARNATIONS, ARABIS, ETC. ANNUALS BEDDING AND VEGETABLE PLANTS GERANIUM AND FUCHSIAS You are invited to come and look over our assortment of fruit, shade and flowering trees. Dwarf shrubs, flowering and ornamen tal shrubs. FERRILL'S NURSERY 'a Mile East of Keizer Phone 2-1307 Open Sundays FREE PARKING AT ALL TIMES Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 21, 1950 13 maximum heating dependability, allows greater freedom of move ment. And the concealed heat ing element in a convector is an added note of safety there are no hot surfaces which may cause bad burns. Convectors also show up to advantage in every other room the home. Attractive and streamlined, they can be painted easily to harmonize with any color scheme or decorative theme. They circulate only air within the room, and so they do not bring up dirty air from the basement, as some heating systems do. They maintain an even, gentle circulation of air which provides maximum heat ing comfort with a minimum of fuel consumption, because of their ready response to thermos tatic or damper control. And whether free-standing or recess ed, they take up so little space that they make the smallest room seem larger. D. D. T. kills all insects that infest potatoes, including the potato aphid, leaf hopper, flea beetles and potato beetle. It may be mixed with a fungicide to give complete protection with one application. Painting & Papering Carpentry Masonry Store Maintenance Display Arrangement Window Cleaning Floor Finishing, Waxing ...WAS I DISGUSTED! "VI High Fuel Bills and Our Guests Always Complained that Our Home Was Either UNTIL I HAD A REGULATED HEATING ' SYSTEM INSTALLED BY s IP IE &on 540 Hood Phone 3-3603 .Manuiaclured by Jacobscn A 4-Cycle Engine 18" - 20" - 22" cut available TERMS SALEM BOAT HOUSE State St., Four Corner! Dial 3-8515 100 C'hcmfkela Ph. a :W3
