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SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ,. i I M ' ' lU'l.lJ " I ' important for strong summer growth. One problem is low spots in a lawn, which should be corrected by lifting the sod and filling underneath it with soil. The new earth should not be placed on top of the turf because of the danger of killing or damaging the grass. Spring Grooming of Lawns Aids Fertilization of western lawns through the spring and summer is important because of the leaching effect of continuous ar tificial watering. Most Important however, is the early spring treatment. First, give the lawn a vigor ous raking to remove sticks, stones and other foreign matter, also to loosen the surface of the H4e ALL PURPOSE HOUSE" PAINT Have you looked at your house lately? Your neighbor! do! Why not paint up? Outside Whits S J 89 !3' A Gal. in 5't Easy Payment Plan Available MEDFORD LUMBER CO. 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Now comes the application of a top dressing to build up the organic content of the soil. There are several ways to do this. If your soil is sandy loam, a com bination of one-third peat moss and two-thirds weed-free sheep or steer manure makes a good top dressing. If the soil is adobe or clay it Is better to apply a mixture of one-third coarse sand, one-third weed-free ma nure and one-third peat moss. No Manure Do not use bulk cow manure because of the danger of intro ducing a host of weeds to your lawn. The tap dressing should not be put on too thick, a half Inch li ample. Brush It off the leave with a grass rake and again wet the lawn. The week following. If there are bare or thin spots in the lawn a pre-secding Job should be done. If possible, use the same grass mixture as was orig inally planter) In the lawn or re seed the entire lawn. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Consider able cloudiness and a few show ers early today but generally fair othorwlse through Thurs day. Cooler In central and south ern Interior today and over area tonight. West to northwest wind 15 to 30 mph off coast. (III PRODUCE Profits TRY "HUMO" SOIL MULCH To Braak Up Srubborn Soil arllett Sh. Wednesday. March 22, 1950 Plant Vegetables After Last Frost Danger Is Gone When all danger of frost Is over and the night temperatures do not drop below the high Ionics it is time to plant the summer vegetables. The list in cludes sweet corn, snap beans, tomatoes and summer squash. Snap beans (pole type) and to matoes are "efficient" crops, pro ducing a large harvest for the space occupied. Corn, on the other hand, produces only a couple ol ears for each toot of row. Produce Heavily One tomato plant trained on a stake wjll produce more toma toes than one person can eat from the time the first fruit ripens until heavy frost kills the plant. The direct seeding method is growing in popularity. Four seeds are sown directly in the garden about Apr 1 1. Only one plant is allowed to grow. For best results cover seed with a waxed paper tent until time to thin out the plants. Seed so planted April 1 will mature to matoes as soon as transplants set out May 1 and with less likeli hood of disease and insect dam age. Best Plants Best plants are stocky, of healthy green color, from 8 to 12 inches tall. Don t start out with weak spindly plants. The stem should be about the size of a lead pencil. Set In the soil a bit deeper than they were growing in tne nai. Pole snap beans return a hlah yield per square foot and a few plants will keep the average fam- ly well supplied. Place a bean pole (lxl inch redwood pole 7 feet tall is best) in the ground be fore the seeds are planted. One seed can be planted on each side of the pole, leaving all the plants to mature. Set the poles three feet apart. Plant the seeds one inch deep. Keep toil moist but not soggy until germination. After the beans are established keep them well-watered to en courage fast growth. Irrigate during the morning hours to avoid rust disease. Do not work among planti until the leaves are dry In the morning. Control aphlds and other pests by regu lar spraying. Suggest Corn If you have room, plant sweet corn, for in no other way can you enjoy corn at its best. In a few hours after picking the sugar starts to turn to starch. Plant the corn in blocks of four rows, never in single rows, because pollination will be poor if you do not plant so the pollen can carry from one row to the next. Plant the seed one Inch deep and six inches apart. Before the plants are four inches tall thin to stand 12 inches apart. The rows should be three feet apart. Plant In full sunshine. Summer squash is prolific and ene plant for each two people to be fed is sufficient. Choose be tween Italian zucchini yellow crookneck and white scallop or plant some of each if you have room. Plant six seeds to a hill and thin out to two or three of the best plants. The hills should be four feet apart. Nation's Economy Said In Good Shape Washington, Mar. 22 (U.R) The commerce department thinks the nation's economy is In good shape even though it Just went through one of the most critical coal crises In his tory. It reported last night that In dustrial nctlvity Increased "mod erately" In January and Febru ary and that the rate of national Income stood at an all-time high during the first part of the year. The chief reasons for this cheerful picture, the department said, were distribution of na tional life insurance dividends to veterans, continued high demand for automobiles and a five per rent rise In construction. Things might have been better yet, it said. If the coal strike had not occurred. Dead lino on Classified Ads: .vao p m. for Mlnwlni day. 10 am Monday for Monday; noon 9aturda lor aunday a m. Many Varieties Of Unlimited Choice Single French Carnation There are so many interestinfi varieties of marigolds that one could easily make an entire gar den of this one flower. There is almost unlimited choice in flow er form, size and height of plant. Largest and tallest mari golds are called African, though originating in Mexico and some times called Aztecs. Plants may reach three to four feet and pro duce up to six-inch flowers of yellow and orange, of bail shape, Spading Said Still Best Method To Prepare Garden Plowing on the farm and spad ing In the garden are ancient practices which have been much under attack in recent years but are still regarded by most tillers of the soil as the best way to prepare for planting. Most amateur gardeners have had plenty exptrience in sow ing without spading, in the flow er borders for example. Where perennial plants are established,; seeds tor annual flowers must be sown with the aid of a trowel rather than a spade, to avoid dis turbing neighboring roots. But the practice is one of necessity rather than choice. Wait Right Time There is rare pleasure in turn ing over garden soil, if you take it easy, and wait until the ground is in the right condition to be turned. Never work soil which is too wet; and if the soil is heavy, don't wait until it has he come too dry. There is a point between extremes when even heavy clay can easily be lifted, and will crumble under a blow from the spade. To tell this point, mould a ball of earth in your hand, and pat it ' to make a mud pie. If the pic holds together, the soil is too wet to spade. If it crumbles go ahead. Sets Tasks Set a definite task for your first day's work, say a strip six feet wide, running the shortest dimensions of the garden. At one end dig a ditch, say one foot wide and the depth of the spade, removing all soil from it. Pile this soil near the opposite end of the strip. Now begin to spade with the blade not parallel to the trench, but at right angles to it. This en ables you to lift the soil more easily and deposite it in the trench. Drive the spade down, not on a slant, but perpendicu larly to its full depth. Take a small slice of the soil so your back is pot strained. Lift It up, turn the spade over, so that the top soil fall underneath and bot tom soil on top. In filling the first trench, you have opened a second. Spread Manure To spade under manure, spread It evenly over the area, except for the top of your' Initial trench. When this first trench has been dug clean the manure from the top of the next trench and throw it into the bottom of the first; then proceed with your spading, piling the soil on top of the manure. When you have finished your day's quota you will have an empty trench, which should be filled with the soil you removed from the initial tronch. BOOSTER POWDER I. Marigolds Offer For Home Gardeners Type Chrysanthemum Type or carnation, peony, or chrysan themum type of bloom. African marigolds respond to a fairly rich soil, ample moisture and all the sunshine you can give them. French marigolds are smaller and bloom more profusely. Flowers may be single or dou ble, many two-toned in shades of yellow and red. The plants range from 8-inch dwarfs to about 24 inches in height. French marigolds are probably more suitable to small gardens than the large-flowered varie ties. Won Award Red Head, a French marigold, won an All-America award in 1948. Its flowers are two inches across with a crested center com posed of many tiny erect golden petals, edged maroon and sur rounded by a single raw of broad, over-lapping, gracefully recurved petals. All French marigolds should be grown in a soil that is not overly rich, otherwise plants may produce a luxuriant foliage and few flowers. Dp not over water this type. For planting in the front row, French dwarf doubles are effec tive. Flowers are 1V2 inches across and plants 6 to IS inches tall. After Frost Sow in the open garden after the danger of frost is over. Mari golds are extremely easy to grow from seed and should not be planted too thickly although if you do. they can be thinned out and excess plants moved to another location. For plants ready to transplant to your flower beds when the wintbr and spring flowers are through, start a flat of marigolds indoors now and move them to the garden when the weather is warm enough. You can grow them much larger before trans planting, if you move the seed lings into plant bands when you "prick them out" of the seed flat. New Pension Offer Made By Chrysler Detroit. Mich., Mar. 22 (U.R) A new pension offer by Chrysler corporation broke the ice of con tract negotiations today, but the company and the CIO United Auto Workers still were far from agreement. As the walkout of 89.000 pro duction workers ncared the end of its eighth week last night. Chrysler made its first revised pension offer since the walkout began January 25. The UAW promptly countered with its own proposal. It was learned that both sides made only slight concessions in an effort to break a deadlock on funding and administration of a pension program, and that the UAW would reject Chrysler's offer when negotiations resume at 2 p.m. EST today. Company rejection of the UAW proposal also was expected. "They're still miles apart and far from agreement." a source close to the negotiations re ported. MAIL GOES THROUGH Lewiston, Ida. (U.R) A snow sled powered by an engine and propellor has been designed by mechanic Gunnar Anderson to bring the mail into Dixie, tiny snow-b ound community 1 J8 miles southeast of here. The sled will make the 39-mile run from Elk City to Dixie for some 80 residents. DEN "Everything For Your Garden But the Rain" MY? PRECISION PAYS OFF Garden rows should be set straight and parallel for efficient production and time-saving later in the season. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Overseas in Belgium, the gov ernment COLLAPSES AND RE SIGNS over the question of whether or not to bring King Leopold back to his throne. There are two horns to the Bel gium dilemma: 1. His surrender of himself and his army to the Germans. 2. His marriage (during his comfortable interment as a royal P.O.W.) to a commoner. HE first we can understand. In that awful moment when he faced the thundering German horde, Leopold made the SOFT AND EASY choice. He tnrew m the sponge. Churchill, lacing me wide grim situation, made WORSE by Leopold's defection, chose the hard way. His people backed him to the last man and the last extremity. The British bled them selves white and had to face the Drohlems of neace weakened ana debilitated by their long struggle that took not only their blood but their treasure. Belgium (thanks to the choice made by its king) sat out the war as a conquered nation and when the shooting stopped bounced back to recovery taster man any European people. B UT Churchill Is a hero who will go down in history alongside Leonidas at the pass and Horatio at the Bridse. He has remained great even in the face of political defeat. Leopold isn't exactly a heel, but nobody loves a quitter. LEOPOLD'S marriage (during his interment) to a COM MONER is over our heads. We're all FOR big shots marrying com moners. According to our notion, it is good eugenieally as well as socially. We look at Europe's Inbred aristocracy and say no wonder the system failed. If in breeding will ruin a herd of cat tle it will ruin a herd if kings and dukes and so on. But a system that endures as long as feudalism, eventually warps people's minds. Even the common people who for centu ries upon centuries have carried on their necks the burden of feudalism come in time to hold doubts that a commoner can be come an according-to-H o y 1 e queen and a proper dam of princes who will grow up to be ' Spring is the Time to Do It... OYei it's time to re-build, remodel, re-decorate . , . time to add on that extra room, re finish the spare bedroom or rumpus room, put on that roof which leaked last winter . . insulate your home for warm dayi ahead . ,. repair tha garage, rebuild fences , , , paint and spruce up. We have the materials you will need top quality and moderate in oit. We'll secure experienced, able workmen to do the job quickly and economic ally. That the Kind ot friendly, helpful, dependable service Big Pinei have given for . mora than yean! BIG PINES LUMBER CO. 4 SIXTH and FIR STREETS ."Hi: S;. ST? kings. Human nature, like a vein of precious ore, has many strange dips and angles. 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One Killed, 10 Hurt In Railroad Crash Pittsburgh, Mar. 22 (U.R) A dining car chef was killed and 10 other persons injured when a switching locomotive rammed the end of a Pittsburgh and Lake Erie passenger train here last night. The last two cars on the De-troit-to-Pittsburgh sleeper were derailed and wrecked in the col lision. Passengers in the other cars were shaken up severely. The chef, Cleveland Woodson, 50. Buffalo, N.Y.. suffered a fractured skull when he was struck by heavy kitchen equip ment. The dining car was third from the rear. If your kitchen looks lih THIS... rOST TTrWJ MT,' ir-j -uj PHONE 2-621 1 PHONE 2-6151 SOUTH RIVERSIDE r 1
