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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
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soil. If the soil is packed and
hard, spike the lawn with a spe
cial tool made for this purpose.
This will aerate the soil and al
low plant food to get down Into
the root zone. All weeds should
be removed and the soil lightly
rolled. If any low places remain,
lift the sod and sprinkle addi
tional loam under it, to raise the
level.
Need Plant rood
The lawn should next be given
an application of plant food,
when the grass is dry, water
thoroughly immediately after.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Monastery Destroyed,
Monks Get Sanctuary
Cumberland Hill, R.I., Mar
22 (U.R) The half-century old
Cistercian monastery of Our
Lady of the valley was destroy,
ed by fire early todav and fel.
low-Catholics hastened to offer
sanctuary to the 130 trappist
monks and guests who were
forced to flee.
The blaze apparently broke
out in the infirmary and spread
rapidly to the massive granite
chapel and a guest house. Built
on a hilltop by the patient hands
of the gentle monks, the struc
tures will cost $250,000 to re
place. The fire raged out of control
for two hours while brown-clad
lay monks and white-robed choir
monks helped firemen from
eight surrounding communities
fight the flames.
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
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