Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 19

4 28 SUNDAY MORNING OaklanO APRIL 14, 1918. IN THE FIELDS WITH SCHOOL ARMY o- --0 -0-- HOES AND SPADES BUILD FOOD LINES asked him a few questions and went away. The next days the news spread that Mrs. Radish's little boy took a walk and -never came baok. Edna Ellison (8A Grade, Lockwood School).

(This page will be to the Home and School Garden Army work, edited 'by Mrs. James Hamilton, city director of food production, room 420 Central Bank Building. Office telephone. Oakland 132, 10 to 2 p. m.

Mcr. 1278.) so we can sell them and" get money for the Red Cross. Some we will take home and use them instead of meat on porkless days. We planted popcorn and onions. We are raising popcorn so that we will have enough for our Christmas tree and also have enough to sel lto all the children In our neighborhood for the Red Cross.

The vegetables that we raise we are going to try to sell for the Red Cross. The vegetables that we don't sell we will use at home. Mary Casanova (6B Grade). Jf now we garden. Our class has a long patch of ground for our garden.

The first thing we do is to dig up the ground. When we are through digging we make the ground nice and smooth with a rake. After the raking we make our rows-When we have finished making our rows we drop the seeds and cover them over. We planted sweet peas and corre-i opsis neat to the fence to make It look; pretty from the Boulevard. We planted' vegetables in the next two rows.

One row we planted half onions and halt radishes. Next to the path we planted carrots and lettuce. After we are all through digging and planting one of the boys gets the hose and we water the garden. When we are through gardening we collect and clean our tools carefully. Then the boys carry.

them to the basement and "put them away, Ruth Disney (3B Grade, 11 years). leaves and other portions of plants by chewing or biting, while others injure and destroy plants by sucking, thus draining their vital life Juices. For the first class, arsenlcals are the best remedies; for the second class, contact poisons are used. For control of these enemies, rotation of crops is recommended, also by spraying, using the following preparations: No. 1 Paris green, 1 lb; air, staked lime, 3 water, 150 gallons.

No. 2 Black leaf "40," 1 gallon: whale-oil soap, 4 lbs. water, 1000 gallons No. 3 Kerosene, 5 gallons; laundry soap, 2 water. 100 gallons.

THE SLUG. The slug is a little animal, sometimes classified as insect but really mollusks. Much harm is done by them to the vegetable garden. The best remedy is a preventive and consists of lime in any form being the most useful, sprinkled over the plants and scattered about thehaunts of the 'slugs, which means all about the garden, buildings, outhouses and fences. When "the lime comes into contact with the slug, the latter secretes S'lime copiously and in time this completely exhausts the animal and it dies.

Other remedies are soot, dust, sifted wood ashes. By scattering a line of any of these substances around a garden, it will serve to keep the slugs away. The following insects are useful In destroying injurious therefore do not kill them: (1) The convergent ladybird it destroys not only all forms of g-irden plant lice, but the eggs of various insects). Other beneficial insects are wasps, ichnemon and chalets flies, ground bettles, soLdier bugs, syrphds and tachma flies and lace wing flits. (Were it not for jjie natural enemies of the potato beetle, and of cabbage worms, army worms and similar pests, all vegetable crops probably would be failure.) The toads, non-venomous snakes, moles, birds, lizards and pometimes poul'ry are also useful in destroying insects.

"It has been said that a toad in a garden is worth twenty dollars to the gardener because of the, many insects it will destroy. Estimates have been made th tain thirty days a single toad may destroy 720 cutworms, 600 myriapods, 720 sow bugs, 1080 ants, 120 weevils and 120 beetles. (See Farmers' Bulletin, 196). The vegetable seeds, 500 packages of each variety, have been received from Washington and will be given out to the various schools In proportion to the interest manifested by each in home and school gardening. Mr.

Xeer, director of agriculture of the Oakland schools, has requested that the principals of each school report at once the number of children in their respective schools "who have a home or school garden. 1 A HOOVER GARDEN. Radishes, turnips and beets Can be grown In a few feet. Lettuce and beans Are grown between. The boy with the hoe Knows, how to make potatoes grow.

An hour each day Will make it play. -Wnen it is time to reap No one will have to weep. Hoover says pome is better than none. Hoover also says raise some, waste none. Robert Grande (8 A Grade, Lock-wood School).

4 GARDEN' TALK. The vegetables in our gardens are growing fine and straight. They look like many soldiers ready to march to war. The heads of the lettuce are so large they look as if somebody blew them up. The radishes are ready for the table; when you eat one it tastes like more.

At first most of the chil-' dren thought that gardening was a time for play, but now they are all eager for the hour to come and work with earnestness. Annie Carjton (8A Grade, Lockwood School). OUR ALFALFA The preparation for planting alfalfa in W. P. Friek School garden Is nearly completed.

The ground is well dug. We are going to plant the seed in long rows so that we will not waste water. We are planting alfalfa for the rabbits that we are going to raise, and also for our bees. We have been working on the alfalfa patch very carefully. It Is in the corner of the garden and is irregular in shape.

Rabbit raiting is an experiment with us this term. Later I will -tell you how It succeeds. Morris Loafea (6A Grade, Frick School). MY HpME GARDEN. When I.

prepared my home garden I measured off the yard till I got a strip of ground ten by five feet. Then I started to dig it up and throw away the big stones. A man gave me a load of fertilizer. I took as much as I needed to mix with 'my soil, which had too much clay. AfterI had spread thedressing I dug it up again.

When It was quite 'smooth I made little furrows to put the seed in. I planted three rows of purple beans and three rows of hrown beans. Then on the other side of the garden: I planted one row of carrots apd one row of beets. I left a little space to transplant something If I needed to. Sven Anderson (3B Frick School).

"Ol lt The sixth grade boys laid off the gardens at W. P. Frick School. Instead of having separate beds, as before, we laid them off Into beds four feet wide and 136 feet long, with paths three feet wide between. There were four boys in each company.

One to hold the tape line, one to drive the stake into the ground and one to carry the string. There were two companies of boys. One company staked the upper half and the other staked the lower half of each row. It took an hour to lay off one bed. The Frtck boys are glad to have an opportunity to make their backs ache for the good of the country.

It Is our "bit" Harold Bostock (6A Grade )i GARDENS OF FRICK SCHOOL. I am the secretary of W. P. Frick School Gardening Club. For three years W.

P. Frick School has been working on school gardens. The children of this school have been taught to save and to raise vegetables and other things that they can to help to save food that Is needed in Europe for the Allies. We are now getting ready aji alfalfa bed, because we are going to raise rabbits and feed them Jfalfa, We are going to raise rabbits TOU want a garden, do something and you'll get something! Or, in other words, if you want a garden, plant one and you'll have the vegetables it grows. Remember, half-cultivation is worse than none.

Never plant a garden on-less you are able and willing to see It through, clear to harvest. It is merely wasted time, and seeds for parents or children to undertake a garden and then abandon it by going away on a summer vacation or for any other reason. If you have a home garden, make that a success first of all. The school garden should be taken care of by those whose home gardens are amply cared for by grown-ups. I ST OF VEGETABLES TO BE I'LVXTED IS APRIK Beans, beets, -carrots, celery, com, cucumbers, lettuce, onions (time of setting plants in garden, tomatoes (time of setting plants in garden), parsnips, potatoes, radish, summer' squaf-h, turnips.

Here is a guide as to the amount that will produce sufficient vcge-- tables for a family of five: Beans (string). 100 feet; beans. (Lima), 50 feet; beets, 200 feet; car-, rots. 200 feet; corn, 400 feet; cucumbers. 6 plants; lettuce; 20 200 feet; peasv 100 feet; potatoes (early), 100 feet; potatoes (late) 600 feet.

THINNING. TheN plants should be thinned when they are from two to four Inches tall. Distance between plants in rows should be as follows: Kaie, 18 to 34 ins. apart; lettuce. 4 to ins.

apart; onion sets, 4 or 5 to foot; peas, 15 to foot; potatoes. 14 to IS ins." apart; radish. 8 to 12 to foot; pumpkin, hills 8 to 12 f-et apart: squash (bush) hils, 3 to 4 feet; squash (late) hills 7 to 9 teet; tomatoes, 3 ft. apart; spifHich. 7 or to foot; turnip, 6 or 7 to foot; beans (bush) a or 8 to feet; beans (pie), 3 to 4 feet; beets, 5 or 6 to" font: cabbage, early, 12 to 18 late, 16 to 24 ins-: carots, 14.

to 18 corn. 30 to 36 cucumbers, 4 to 6 feet. Children, did you ever observe, as wplked in the forest, that some trees are well established and prosperous, while others, less fortunate, are struggling on in a sickly way for light nd soil? That even on the same tree tome limbs, more fortunate, thrive; while others, for lack of Tight and nourishment, wither and die? Close observation would probably have revealed that certain trees or parts of trees or other plants were undergoing decay, owing to the work of molds or (bacteria; or perhaps some insect was destroying the leaves or the bark, or was burrowing and honeycombing the trunk; or some creature, working at the roots, tapping the plant of its vitality. There is a cause for all this. Lowly plants live at the expense of higher plants, and" vice versa.

Not a plant exists but has its enemies; If the plant neglected, for any reason, it begins to grow very frail and weali; gradually-it is rendered more susceptible to attack until it becomes too frail to de- fend itself, and soon its. destruction Is accomplished. Its enemies are ready to devour it In order to have success with -your plants you must feed and water them properly. Plants, In ord- to thrive, must have access to certain ingredients In the soil and must have certain conditions of light, heat and moisture. It is the poorly nourished plants that succumb to the attacks of other organisms.

H.re is a list of some of the plant enemies: The common cabbage worm. aphis, white grubs, plant lice, the imported garden, slug, weevils, army worm, cutworms. Kome of these devour the mm Hiss, hiss, hiss The plotters whisper together in the back room of the cafe. It jls an important conference. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle They leave the place stealthily and go outside to entrr the waiting automobile, i Chug.

chug, chuj The automobile dashes down the street toward the ferry Ding, ding, Uing The ferryboat bearing the automobile starts, across the river to the Jersey shore. Clank, clank, clank- The gates of the ferryboat are raised and the automobile speeds away in the dark. Honk, honk, honk 'A Jersey policeman gets In the way. Does the automobile stop? Listen! Crunch, crunch, crunch The policeman drags himself painfully away from the scene of the accident. Zizz, zizz, -zizz The brakes of the automobile grind.

Ah, they have reached the munition plant. Buzz, buzz, buzz The conspirators confer as to the best angle of attack. They climb out of the automobile. They creep to the wall of the great plant. They plant the bomb.

Scratch, scratch, scratch They 'are striking a match with which to light the long fuse. Sputter, sputter, sputter The fire is running along the fuse toward tire bomb. BANG! A deafening explosion. The conspirators flee to escape falling wreckage. The explosion was a success.

The great plant crumbles. Putt. putt, putt Great gobs of soft material fall from the sky. almost burying the conspirators. It has been shot up by the explosion.

It has a familiar odor. CURSES! A terrible mistake been made. They have blown up not an American munition, but German munitions. Faster falls the stud from the sky, which all but envelops them. They have destroyed A.

Pumpernickel Son's sauerkraut factory. Tap, tap, tap Patter, patter, patter Noise of efficiency escaping in the darkness. THE GOSSIPS. I Miss Carrot and Mrs. Lettuce were talking about Mrs.

Radish's little boy. Mrs. Lettuce said: wonder what's the matter with Mrs. Radish's boy, he is so Miss Carrot said: "I guess he does not get enough of water to drink, the poor Mr. Parsley, who was very jealous, came and said: "I saw our master water Mr.

and Mrs. Onion and their children: I wonder why she dos not water us." Miss Beet, who was very bossy, said: "We will have this question settled soon." i Miss Carrot, Mrs. Lettuce, Miss Beet and Mr. Parsley wofcu feeling very blue over it. few days later they met again.

A few drops of rain came down, then all of a sudden torrents of rain came down. Mr. Parsley shouted: "Get kinder cover or we will be drowned." I They all went home. The next day there was n'o; rain. They all went over to Mrs.

Radish's house to see how the little boy was. When he came to the door he was so big and stout nobody knew him. jThey.