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ny PART TWO THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SUNDAY. APRIL. IS. 1943 Million Michigan 'V Gardeners Could Ease Food Pinch in '43 A Home Gardener's Favorite Questions and Answers iiiii.iM.iiiliV xymvu Plenty of Time Left to Start Own Crops BY WILLIAM J. COUGHLLV Free Pre Staff Writer Approximately a million families need not be concerned with the Government warning mat mere will of certain foods in the year 1943.

De "more or less severe snoriagea The million families could (and should) grow their own supplies of the vegetables which threaten to However, far fewer than a million Michigan families are planning to take the Government advice to prepare to meet the threatened shortages through a Victory Garden plot. In fact, the Michigan Council of Defense feels that hard work will At. ijt'Z' Youth Group for Garden Labor Urged Plan Would Provide Help for Growers Unable to Put Full Time in Home Taslc Paul R. Krone, Michigan victory garden chief, Saturday recommended that communities throughout Michigan investigate the possibility of forming groups of boys from 12 to 17 years old into labor squads to work in victory gardens. The plan already has been adopted by Royal Oak and Grosse Pointe, he pointed out, and may enable many persons to grow gardens who would not themselves be able to give all of the time necessary to spading and cultivating.

Krone has consulted with C. B. Dibble, of the Farm Youth Labor State Committee, who endorsed the plan. Dibble is recruiting youths for farm work and he pointed out that since much garden work will be done before school terms end, the garden program could serve as a part of the training for boys who will be assigned to farms later in the season. Krone suggested that the local school superintendent or country agricultural agent have full chargs of the program.

He asked that local victory garden committees work to establish a "definite wage scale that will be fair to the boys and to those IS ONE OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE VEGETABLES will supply greens needs of a family over a long season wv wp" 1 a mil it be necessary to get 810,000 famines The alternative to growing your own is to prepare to accept, in the words of the Government warn- luig, inconveniences wnicn, except in the case or widespread crop disaster" will not "menace life or health." There is still plenty time to plan and grow a garden. In fact, many farm families do not think seriously of the home garden plot until late May. Highly productive gar den plot until late May. High ly prod uctive gardens often are started in June. There should be no difficulty about getting seeds The Government is so concerned with the vital part Victory Garden ers will play in feeding the nation that long ago it arranged for a special seed supply.

SEEDS ARE PLENTIFUL It may be that you will not be able to get all types of all the varieties of vegetable seeds, but all indications are that seeds in pack et3 will continue to be plentiful. Almost everyone will have the time for a garden of some nrt. Paul Jones, Wayne County Victory Garden chief, recommends a half dozen Swiss chard plants In one flower bed and three or four tomato plants in another, if space is that limited. But serious gardening can be done in 15 minutes a day. Michigan State College experts estimate that an average of 15 minutes a day of real work throughout the gardening season in a plot 25 feet square might well produce: Ten pounds of greens; 75 pounds of cabbage and enough lettuce for healthful salads; 40 pounds of tomatoes, 12 pounds of green beans, 17 pounds of winter squash; eigh pounds of cucumbers; 10 pounds of peas; 6o pounds of sweet corn; six pounas oi onions; pounds of carrots; and 25 pounds each of beets and turnips.

Spending an average of a half hour a day in a plot 25 by 50 would produce twice as much. In the past, an hour garden work has been found to produce vegetables which would otherwise cost $1. But that money figure isn't particularly important now. HITS WELL-TO-DO The official Government food re port points out that food shortages will "be felt largely by the well-to-do." The reason, of course, is that they have long been accustomed to buying what they wanted when they wanted it at the store. They didn't know what it was to want a particular kind of food and not be able to get it.

They'll probably find out this year unless they have a Victory Garden. Many feel that they wui "let George do it" that there will be so many others with Victory Gardens that they can get out of the fuss and trouble of working in the soil for their food. The facts don't bear them out. True, approximately 5,000 De- troiters have applied for City of Detroit garden plots. That sounds like a big figure, but it is less than 3 per cent of the Government quota for Wayne County.

Thera must be not fewer than 190,000 gardens in Wayne County If even the figure of 810,000 gardens for the state is to be met. MINIMUMS GIVEN Minimum figures for some other populous counties are: Bay 10,500, Berrien 13.000. Calhoun 15,000, Genesee 34.000, Ingham 21,000, Jackson 15,000, Kalamazoo 16,000, Kent Macomb 17,000. Muskegon 14,000. Oakland 40,000, and Saginaw 20,000.

It's a big job the Home Front has. It can't afford to fall down. Just growing any old kind of a garden win not do the tricK. Every garden should be the kind1 of Is It best to wait for a rain to transplant such things as cabbages and tomatoes? A No; plant on an overcast day if possible and let the watering can take care of the irrigation problem. Planting immediately after a rain usually means that the top soil will bake.

Better let it lose excess water first. While earth should always be firmed around the roots, it is well then to scratch the surface soil to check evaporation. What is a cover crop A Crops, usually grown in the fall, to be turned under. They add humus to the soil and some (peas, clover, etc.) manufacture nitrogenous compounds which reduce future needs for commercial fertilizers. Can sweet potatoes be grown in Michigan? A Hundreds of home gardeners manage to produce a crop, but they are not for the novice.

They may be grown from sprouts produced in the home hotbed, but most gardeners get them from nurserymen. What Is the difference between the two kinds of artichokes A The globe artichoke Is a tender plant that produces its food in the form of immature flower buds. The Jerusalem artichoke is a hardy root crop plant, the edible portion of which develops in the ground in similar manner to the white potato. Are ants harmful In the garden? A Often they are responsible for the introduction of asphis and sometimes carry away seeds. A kettle of boiling water over the hill at night will sometimes get rid of them.

Various commercial poison preparations are sold to control ants. Some of these poisons must be used with great caution. What are the advantages of glass substitutes over glass for hot bed covers? A Treated cloth and screen covers are lighter than window glass, but unless secured, the covers may be blown off by the wind. Window glass transmits 95 per cent of light available as against half that amount for some substi- If He Garners Prize He Can Thank Wife One Detroit area gardener may be in for a pleasant surprise if he wins one of the prizes in the Free Press Victory Garden Contest. He is registered, but he doesn't know it.

"I would like to register my husband's victory garden unknown to him," his wife wrote to the Free Press. "He has raised a beautiful garden for many years and I think he could easily take a prize. "However, my husband is always very modest about his garden. I think it is lovely and he meets all the qualifications, including producing such crops for canning as tomatoes, beets and corn. I think it is only fair that he be entered, whether he knows about it or not." Dam to Water 200,000 Acres By the Associated Prea McALLEN, April 17 El Azucar Dam, a four-mile long earthen bulwark on the San Juan River, 75 miles southwest of Texes' rich Rio Grande Valley, is impounding water to make a vast agricultural empire of 200,000 arid acres in northern Mexico.

Azucar is bpanish for sugar, and the gravity irrigation project will be sweet fortune to thousands of farmers, many of whom are already receiving free forty four acre grants from the Mexican Government. Max W. King, consulting engi neer ror the Mexican Irrigation Commission, said the main dam structure is complete and the first water is being impounded. The spillway, with a capacity of 20,000 cubic meters per second, is still being built. Date for the dam's completion has been set for Dec.

30. 1946. The engineer estimated a acre section of land close to the dam will be ready for irrigation by the middle of July. About half of that acreage 13 being farmed now. OPA Director Forgot His No.

2 Ration Book CLEVELAND, April 17 (UP) Birkett L. Williams, regional OPA director, has been a very busy man, occupied with the dis tnbuuon of thousands of No. 2 ration books in recent days. With so much on his mind, Wil liams forgot of all things to get nis own No. nook, so now he had to stand in line, with other forget ful citizens, at his local rationing board.

PRUNES FOR THE PUBLIC SAN JOSE, April 17 (UP) Uncle Sam has decided to give the civil population an even break with the armed forces in the matter of prunes. It has released to the former 13,382 tons of prunes held here out of the total that had been set aside for the military, naval and aerial forces. Here Are Tips forScrapbook on Gardening Here are more rating tips for your garden scrapbook. They concern the half-hardy vegetables those to be planted not earlier than the time of the killing frost. The average riat for the Detroit region is April 27.

BEETS The so-called beet seed actually is a seed ball that will produce several plants. So do not get the seed balls too close together. The tops are rich in vitamins and many use thinnings, roots and all. for a delicious early vegetable. Soil must be deeply worked for best root development and a steady supply of moisture supplied.

Plant several times for quality harvests, the last time shout July 1 for fall storage. CARROTS A well-prepared seed bed is all important. Clods In the soil will result in mis-formed roots. So will crowding. arrot3 are slow to germinate ind a few radish seeds will help nark the row.

If a hard crust forms over the rou break it light-v with a rake. Finger-sized carrots taken in thinning the row are to eat. Carrots taste jest when harvested before full naturity when about ct an inch across the top. Make raore than one planting, vith the one for fall storage in by ate June. CAULIFLOWER Not as hardy is cabbage, but soil requirements ire about the same.

Although can be planted as a ipring crop it is better to figure Fy Fever Victims iiclcd by Gardens When Americans grow more 20,000,000 victory gardens to ild the war effort they will also aiding hay fever sufferers, to Dr. Donald B. Armstrong, of the Metropolitan Life hsurance Cot "Gardens in city lots not only enefit the community," Dr. Arm-itrong said, "but while they pro-ride healthful exercise for the gardener and food for his family, hey also help to eradicate poi-ionous weeds, poison ivy, and ilants producing hay fever pollen." PONTIAC NURSERIES Specials 3 yr. V4 Fruit Tri.

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at Romeo Romeo 300 Opm Sunday and Em. Till 7 MO LajdMcw SWISS CIIARD (ABOVE) A single row tutes. The substitutes permit ultra-violet rays to get through but there is no definite evidenc that this is of great benefit. Chie advantage probably is that sulx stitutes are lighter and cheaper than glass. What is the best hour ta water the garden? A Late afternoon is usually recommended, chiefly because the water has a chance to get deep into the soil during the night be-i fore the sun's rays cause it ta evaporate.

Is It better to plant iweel corn In hills or rows? A There are advantages inl both methods. Most authorities claim rows give a greater yield. On a small patch, however, pollina- tion probably is more complete through using the hill method. Many garden veterans use hills that is, three or four stalks grow ing together because, if regu larly spaced, cultivation can proceed in both the length and width of the patch. How are seedlings grown la sand? A Sand, instead of garden soil, is used in flats or hot bed, and the procedure is the same as in ordinary methods except that a fertilizer solution is fed the seedlings.

Builders' sand of a coarse variety is preferred by many, and it may be sterilized by pouring boiling water over it. After the seedlings emerge, they get a pint per square foot once or twice a week of a solution made by dissolving six level teaspoonsful of commercial fertilizer in a gallon of water. light sprinkling with water after, feeding will wash the solution from foliage. It is claimed that sand-planted seedlings resist damping off and have very sturdy root systems. What are the pointed heads of cabbage called? A Conical-formed heads are usually of one of the Wakefield varieties.

Cabbage also comes in round and flat-headed types. Savoy cabbage is a crinkly leaved kind seldom found in the stores. The tall-growing Chinese, or celery, cabbage is of a different species. PRODUCTION ESTDLVTED Chester C. Davis, Food Production and Distribution Administrator, estimates that a garden 30 by 50 feet properly cared for can produce up to a half-ton cf food in a single season.

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Will furnish freah aauco and pies Spring; last a Tender and flavorful. Horseradish Roots 6 for 59c Giant crown roots, producing sham, nipry horseradish. Grates white as snow. Boots increase yearly. Strawberry Plants Co and Carry Onli Evtrbf oring Gioitr Gem, 25ferS1.lt titro lorly Premier 2S or ee Senator Dunlep 25 for etc BERRY BUSHES Quick-Crop Exfro-Hary Stock Latham Rod Raipbirry.

10 for Sl.lt Sodas Pyrplo Cap Raspberry, 10 for 7e St. Everbearing Raspberry, 10 for 97e Eldorado Blackberry, 10 for 97c White Blackberry, 10 for 97c Perfect. Red Currant, 10 for 97c Concord Blae Grape Ef Agawan Red Grape 34C Niagara White Grape) for 3 vines VEGETABLE SEEDS 111 leit Vorlatlee for Home Plantiaa. laeladiaej Sack Scarce Varieties as ROCCOU KALE BRUSSELS SPROUTS KOHLRAII CELERIAC LEEK CELTUCE OKRA LOHRMAN SEED COMPANY MACOMI IRUSH RAitet. 1701 lttJlf43 Our SOth Year! it pai i II II I IS WYSr weeks.

on a fall harvest because It doesn't stand hot weather well, Best success Is usually had by setting out plants from June 20 to July 1 so that the harvest season will be cool and moist. The heads must be protected from sun, which is done by tying the leaves together with a string as the heads begin to form. Heads will blanch in from three days to two weeks, depending on the weather. CELERY This is a tricky crop, but many home gardeners man age to meet its requirements for a rich loam soil containing much organic matter. Very light or heavy soils usually will not yield a successful crop.

A steady moisture supply is all-important. Blanching is accomplished by use of heavy paper bands or by banking up boards on each side of the row Celery seldom is recommended for new gardeners. CHARD Swiss chard is growing more and more to be the home gardener's favorite for greens. It is almost unbelievably productive. A single row will supply a family for the summer if leaves are cut above the crown as needed.

Chard is a beet that does not produce an important root. ENDIVE This gives that bitter, zestful taste to salads. It is grown much in the manner of lettuce, except that when the plant has reached harvesting size the leaves must be gathered up and blanched. If the leaves are tied together while wet, crown decay may result. Some gardeners blanch endive by placing a light board on top of the plant, keeping light from the inner leaves.

Others just board In a over the row to exclude light. LETTUCE Probably the most common garden vegetable, because it is easy to grow, has few ene Inducements be none too plentiful. started on this war duty. that used to be called a "prize winner. From studies months before the Government report was issued, the Free Press realized this fact and acted accordingly.

A total of $1,500 in War Bond prizes was set up to be awarded to the growers of Michigan's finest war gardens, both city and farm. The Free Press hoped that Michigan residents would accept the challenge to grow prize gardens, thus assuring this vital war area of an adequate supply of health foods in a time of great need. A great number have accepted that challenge. They have regis tered in the Free Press Victory Garden Contest and related con tests as a pledge to themselves that they would carry through to a successful Harvest. Everyone who is serious about gardening and none can afford not to be should take this step of making a written pledge to do a full share in helpmg America meet its food problem.

Since there are no restrictions on garden size or location, it is not difficult to do. A registration form appears on this page. Scarecrows Best to Guard Home Gardens The old-fashioned scarecrow re mains the most reliable device to scare birds from gardens, according to tests of G. C. Oderkirk, of the United States Fish and Wild life Service.

Devices are most effective when frequently changed, he said. He suggested for home gardeners tall sticks or poles to be decoratea first with strands of twine strung from pole to pole. As the season progresses he suggests that streamers of white paper be fastened to the string, and later colored paper. Pieces of metal that reflect light, or a mirror, will chase birds, if the objects are changed from place to place. Objects which make noise in the wind also are effective, he said, but also must be given new locations periodi cally.

At7SheBigs Own War Garden QUINCY, April 17 A lot of people thought Mrs C. A. Boley, a widow, was through as a gardener four years ago when she suffered a double fracture of the hip. This is to report that Airs, tsoiey, now 79, nas spaaea ner victory garden without aid, planted the hardy vegetables and is now visiting her daughter, Mrs. Marian Graf, in Rockwood.

Planning for Small Gardens In connection with Its Victory Garden Contest, The Detroit Free Press is offering a series of helpful leaflets that provide valuable information on the planting and cultivation of various vegetables. SEND FOR THEM TODAY. G-46 Planning The Small Garden G-18 Herbs G-19 Tomatoes G-37 Garden Peas G-45 Sweet Corn G-21 Asparagus G-36 Salad Plants All of these seven leaflets may be obtained for 10c at The Free Press office, 321 West La fayette or by mail. Address Women's Service Bureau, eV iB'rti 1 1 -j 9 mies and produces abundantly. The leaf varieties are easiest to grow and are most nutritious.

The trick in getting tender, crisp let tuce is to assure steady growtn Needed for this are a good supply of moisture and a cool growing season. Harvest lettuce early, before the sun wilts the leaves Head lettuce is more difficult. Be cause heads should form durin the cool growing season, it is best to set out transplants in the spring. They can be set out early if given partial protection. Ordi narily, head lettuce is more sue cessful in home gardens if head ing takes place in September or early October.

PARSNIPS Like carrots, parsnips like soil that has been thor oughly, and deeply, worked. Since they are a long season crop the seed must be planted early. Mod erate freezing does not injure the roots during growth, and a part of the crop can be left in the ground over the winter to be harvested next spring. POTATOES One peck (15 pounds) will plant 100 foot of row which will produce In suitable sou around two bushels. Follow your early potato planting with a planting of late potatoes in May.

Potatoes like soil containing plenty of plant food and humus. Usually they will not do well in a very light or very heavy sou. Get certified seed, if possible. The OPA rule requiring sales of not less than 50 pounds of seed po tatoes has been changed, but many merchants have not been notified that they may sell seed in less than fifty-pound lots. SALSIFY Usually called "veg etable oyster plant," this root crop needs soil suitable to carrots and parsnips.

It is a long season crop. like parsnip, and should be started early. to Speed Up Swanky Newport, R. Is predicting that Its population of 40,000 will tend 30,000 gardens. New Hampshire's State Home Food Production Committee is making plans for creating can nery and preserving centers throughout the state so that no food will spoil.

California, just to be different, has a scientific investigation un der way to determine the effect, if any. of moon changes on plant ing. It is in charge of Mustafa Elgabaly, Eyptian-born agricultural researcher on the campus of the University of California, Trapping or Poison Routs Garden Rats In some sections of Detroit rats become a menace to gardens, but usually only during warm weather. Then they make their outdoor homes in grassy land or buildings adjacent to the gardens, where raiding Is easy. Trapping or poisoning Is the remedy, but precau tions must be taken early.

Spring is the best tune to get rid of the pests. ATTEND GARDEN SESSION Delegates from Ferndale, Pleas ant Ridge, Huntington Woods, Berkley, Clawson, Hazel Park and Royal Oak attended the recent organizational meeting of the South Oakland County Garden Center In the Royal Oak Library, it was reported byRay W. Labitt. The next meeting will be at 8 p. m.

May 4 In the Library. OMfllOeEHSSfJKS If 3 vmt nly $0t at Mltn rtt: ittt' Dm Mf f. CtL. Bmno, N.Y. who hire them.

The local Farm Volunteer Committee should be consulted In arranging wages, he said. He urged that boys so recruited be given practical instructions in garden operations before being sent out. Garden Tools Are Available Despite War Although manufacture of 700 types of garden tools have been eliminated by Government order to conserve war materials and manpower, 150 kinds of small tools are still being made, according to the War Production Board. While local shortages of specific items have been widely noticed, the WPB declares that "war-time gardeners should encounter no mechanical difficulties." "Forks, water hose, rakes, hand cultivators and similar implements, now in manufacture, are beinc standardized for erticient war-time use," the announcement said. Although lawn mowers are no longer made, it was declared that repair parts are available.

Use of reclaimed rubber is permitted in manuiacture of hose. It was estimated that 1,000 tons of steel would be saved for war work by simplification orders, including one that "will reduce forks to 76 types. AutoTurned into Tractor KALAMAZOO, April 17 Vernor D. Winey, Kalamazoo district dep uty conservation officer, who an nounced last fall that 23 acres at his home on Lovers Lane would be available to his city friends for victory gardens, has been busy ever since. He nas devoted ail his spare time to converting an old automo bile into a tractor, for the use of prospective gardeners.

He has just completed the tractor, personally having done all the weld ing, forging and sheet metal work necessary. 'Customer Using Gun Proves that It's Loaded SALT LAKE CITY, April 17 (AP) The customer was wrong- by a long shot. A bandit entered a lunch room. Paul Crowley, a customer, didn't believe that the bandit's gun was loaded and said so. The intruder fired a bullet into the ceiling.

He finished his work without further heckling. Farmer's Plight Worse Than Just Short-Handed SPRINGFIELD, Mo. April 17 (AP)-W. B. Lay.

attemptin to rarm szu acres inis year, ex plains why Greene County farmers are blue: A fellow came out the other day who said he knew all about farming, and I told him to hitch the team to the harrow. "He looked at the machine and the horses he couldn't tell which was which and then wanted to know which side the horses went on" HE WANTS GARDENS MASON. April 17 A. J. Hall is not only donating the use of land, rent free, for victory gardens but is paying for an ad in the local paper to tell folks to come and pick their plots.

WARNS DOG OWNERS VICKSBURG. ADril 17 Police Chief Silas Groat threatens to seek a drastic do? ordinance unless owners confine their dogs to premises for the whole of the gardening season. VICTORY GARDENERS Fruit Trees and Berries They Cror or We Replace Them EMPIRE NURSERY CO. D. M.

PARKER Mastir Couniilor 5757 Cass Ave. MA. 1118 jiTV edSopX aril Tli W.jfflijt affl I Gardens Many and Varied Victory Garden Contest Victory Garden Contest Editor, The Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Mich. Please register my garden In the Free Press Victory Garden Contest, classification indicated below: Michigan, as usual in war activities, seems to be leading the Nation's victory garden campaign. But here are some reports from other sections on food growing tricks.

Spokane, is offering victory gardeners $5 worth of free water above the amount used last year. Washington, D. Boy Scouts are working a 35-acre tract in Anacostia Park. WASTE GROUND USED Several acres of cabbages and potatoes are being planted on property of the city dump in Columbia, N. the crop to be used by municipal prisoners.

Many railroads are permitting employees to garden along the rights-of-way. A large Phoenix (Ariz.) department store has a twenty-one-acre tract plowed for its employees. Grocers of Lexington, got an ordinance passed enabling closing of stores on Wednesday so they can tend their gardens. V. G.

1 Farm Vegetable Garden, Size V. G. 2 Urban Vegetable Garden, Size TO TURN GARDEN RUBBISH II1T0 RICH FERTILIZER Please also register me in one or more of the classifications that follow: V. G. 3 Home Grounds (If your family does all maintenance work) V.

G. 4 Home Grounds (If you hire some maintenance work done) V. G. 5 School Garden V. G.

6 Junior Garden (Under 18), Size Age V. G. 7 4-H Club Member Garden, Size Age V. G. .8 For Michigan Horticultural Society Members Only V.

G. 9 A Vegetable Garden In a Trailer Camp y. G. 10 A Vegetable Garden In an Industrial Plot A Teretabla tardea, mutt ba included. Full Name Street and Number City or Postoffice County RFD (Give Location) Field and garden wastes grass, cartings, leaves, etc.

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