Beat Seed None Too Good
For All Victory Gardens
Eearly selection of good seed
is something that can be done
now toward the success <4 a UH3
victory garden, reminds A G. B.
vegetable
Bouquet, professor of
college.
crops at Oregon State
Seed catalogs are now arriving
Oregon
fixtm
including
those
in
prepared.
firms which are
many cases, to provide locally
mlapted strains and varieties.
An experienced
seedsman
is
important to garden success just
as is a trained medical doctor or
dentist to health, says Professor
Bouquet
An experienced seed
dealer who knows seed varieties
is much more likely to contribute
to the success of the garden than
one who handles seed merely as
a side item, he says.
While some seed may appear at
first glance to be rather expen­
sive, the actual cost of seed for
a garden is so small in compari­
son to the value of the products
that the best seed is the cheap­
est, no matter what it cost, adds
Professor Bouquet. Seed that is
purchased on a cost basis alone
often gives
unfavorable results,
either with poor germination, lack
of uniformity,
or
both.
Most
successful commercial gardeners
buy the best seed available re-
gardles of the
price.
knowing
that the rest of, seed is a com-
paratively small item
in
any
case
Professor Bouquet recommends
early purchase of sivti while lull
stocks arc available, and also the
purchase* of only as much as is
likely to be needed this year
Extension bulletin No. 552 lists
desirable varieties and suggests
the amount of seed necessary to
plant varying areas of the dit-
terent vegetables.
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KM’IONS ON VACATION—
scoring showed a reduction in av-
erake quality of the 4(1 samples
S Sgt Geo W. (Bill) Huffman submitted, which he termed un*
is visiting tn Ashland on a fif­ satisfactory.
teen day furlough
Bill is ata-
"These are difficult times and
.toned at Fort Lewis, Gray field problems are many," wrote Dr
having been there two and one Wilster in connection wiih his re­
half yyars
He is in charge of port on the confidential scoring
the welding shop on Gray field "All creameries are opera.Ing
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inl­
Bill ha.*« attended
th«*
A.*diland de.- high pressure and
and thev
they are 1
school most of his life
•short «»f skilled personnel
Nev­ I
ertheless, it is highly important
that dairy products of high qual­
ity and of uniform com | hi « u lion
be made even under these diffi­
cult conditions, Tlie Oregon but­
Dairy products
manufacturers ter industry must prepare itself
who allow quality of their output to meet marketing problems after
to slip during wartime are lay­ the conclusion of the war. The
ing up trouble for themselves and best way to meet the competition
the whole industry after peace of so-called substitutes is with
fine flavor,
contes. warns Dr. G. H Wilster, butter that lias a
that
has
a
waxy
btxly
and spreads
head
of
dairy
manufacturing
that contain« the right
work at Oregon State college Re­ well,
OIK BOYS lx SERVICE
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Lowered Quality Means
Future Dairy Troubles
Charles E. Myers of
Daven-
port. Wash., planning a Christ­
mas vacation in warm southern
California, read about
a
food
shortage there, so he tucked these
northern comforts in his suitcase;
butter and a pound of coffee,
four dozen eggs, two pounds
ITS A MOVE—
32 • of
Edward W. Hanning.
sults of the latest quarterly bu'- amount of salt, and that has a
Philadelphia, Penn.,
who moved
ter grading and analysis service pleasing color."
under
across the
street,
was
failing
$1.000 bail on charges of
to notify his draft board of «
change of address
Hanning said
that he did not think notifica­
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINTS
tion was required for such
a
"slight" change.
United
States,
Commissioner Norman J. Griffin
replied that “a miss is as good
as a mile."
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By Dr. James A. Tobey
SALEM Thirteen rural Marion
county schools are
closed for - DOISONOUS gases had not add-1 rage. Never drive it in winter
lack of teachers.
In 15 other , * ed to the horrors of war during | without one window partially
schools, substitutes now are teach­ the first year of the present world 1 open. Be careful about regulating
conflict It is alleged, though, that your coal furnace, and watch
ing regularly.
For Excellence in Investment
— Coon«-» v o/ Lot
Thursday. January 21, 1943
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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THE MOST YOU CAN BUY IS THE LEAST YOU CAN DO
The Most Deadly Wartime Gu^>
the treacherous ¡your gas burners. Leaks are dan­
Japs employed gerous, as are open, unlit gas
gas at times valves.
When carbon monoxide is
against our val­
iant allies, the breathed, it combines with the red
hard-fighting ; blood cells, displacing oxygen.
'Only a little is required to cause
Chinese.
We must, nev­ loss of consciousness, and only e
ertheless, be little more to cause death.
The first symptoms of this type
prepared for
gas attacks of poisoning are yawning, head­
from our des­ ache, lassitude, dizziness, nausea,
Dr. J. A. Tobey
perate enemies, ringing of the ears, and heart
who will use any uncivilized, throbs. The complexion turns
barbaric means to gain their cherry red.
A victim of carbon monoxide, if
nefarious ends. All civilians should
familiarize themselves with ways alive, should be gently removed
to fresh air, preferably in a warm
to cope with poisonous gas.
room. If unconscious, he should
There is, moreover, one deadly be given the prone pressure meth­
gas that is always with us. It is od of r«*sus itation used in cases
more quickly fatal than most of I of drowning A doctor should be
the war gases. It is more insidious summoned and an inhalator sent
in its action.
for.
This gas is carbon monoxide,
If the .victim recovers, he needs
the colorless, odorless vapor in a diet rich in iron, which makes
the exhausts of our automobiles. good red blood. Best foods for the
It occurs also tn illuminating gas. purpose are liver, egg yolk, whole
in the incomplete burning of coal wheat and enriched white breads,
and coke, and it is found in sew­ dried fruits, lean meats, dried
ers. old wells, and farm silos.
beans and peas, molasses, and oat
If you want to live long, never meal.
Prevention is. as usual, better
make the fatal mistake of running
your automobile in a closed ga- and safer than cure.
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