Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1944 — Page 12

fights for freedom army. The job before the

must have eating quality and be nutritioys. Who will be called to the colors?

Here's your questionnaire. If |

into the army of home canners.

Freshness Important Are you in a position to get absolutely fresh foods not more than two hours from garden to can? 1. Have you a Victory garden? 2. Can you get fruits and vegetables from a nearby farm or farmers’ market? Have you the proper modern equipment? 3. Have you an approved manufactured water bath canner for fruits and tomatoes? 4 Can you make a home-made water bath canner out of any large, deep utensil, such as a wash boiler, that has a snug-fit-ting cover, a rack to keep jars from touching the bottom and is deep enough so that water covers the jars at least two inches? The rack can be made of wire or wood, except pine. Check Equipment 5. Have you a steam pressure canner for all vegetables except tomatoes? a. Is it in perfect working condition toda

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YOUR VICTORY GARDEN—

Keep Flowers Picked Clean In 1st-Year Strawberry Bed

By HENRY L. PREE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer The far-sighted victory gardener with a first-year strawberry bed should keep the flowers picked for this summer. the plants to develop sturdier runners for next season’s crop. However, if a few flowers escape your attention and set fruit, allow the berries

to ripen.

A mulch of some straw-like material is advised, to reduce labor of

cultivation and to conserve soil moisture. A light side-dressing of a 4-12-4 fertilizer should be made prior to cultivation and mulching. Hardy water § lilies should be placed in pools at this time, Rotted cow manure mixed with the soil is all the fertilizer the lilies will

Con Your Own Ability

Se | = Fo Before Starting to Can Foods By GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Staff Writer home canning season unemotionally. Good intenurge are not enough to save our crops ahd create ile of food against present and post-war demands. We need sort of voluntary “selective service” system. Only those with fitness” belong in the home canning division of our. food

nation is to save our 1944 fruits and vegetables in the best condition. That means every jar of “put up” food

ed next winter by the new officers.

officers elected were William J; Mal-

| from whom you bought it, or your | county home demonstration agent check the pressure gauge for you? c. If your canner has a weighted type of gauge, have you cleaned | the gauge pet cock and safety valve thoroughly? 6, If you haven't a steam pres--sure canner, yourself, do you belong to a neighborhood group who has one? Or is there a community food preservation center nearby? 7. If you live in a town or city, are you going to get practical scientific canning guidance from your local nutrition committee? If you live mn a village or rural area, from your home demonstration agent? : 8. Have you the necessary jars, covers and rings?

ities agree that open kettle canning and oven canning are both inefficient and dangerous? Do you know that guess work may spoil valuable food? 10. Have you sent for the latest

| as the new illustrated folder of | tne Bureau of Human Nutrition |

| partment of Agriculture—instruc-

need during the season. An inch layer of sand or fine gravel on the surface of the soil in the box or pot will prevent much discoloration of the water by the soil and manute mixture, Drain and refill the pool before the lilies start to grow.

Should Be Pruned

Spring-flowering shrubs should be pruned after the flowers have faded. Do not shear the tops but cut out some of the older wood at the ground level and re- | move faded flower heads. Remember to place the bean and tomato poles in the ground before seeds are sown or the | plants set. Poles for beans are set about three feet apart, and two feet apart for tomato plants. Diseased tulip bulbs must be removed and destroyed, to prevent spread of dangerous virus disease mosaic, The other bulbs which appear to be healthy will be dug up in July after the foli- | age has ripened, treated with | Semesan or similar mercurial dis- | infectant, stored for the summer and replanted next November.

Urges Treatment

Peach trees, subject to borers,

women will Davis high school under the spon- | sorship of American Legion Wayne

publications on 1944 canning, such

and Home Economics, U. 8. De- | tions and recipes from your state | university—or from makers of |

canning equipment, or your local | gas and electric companies?

This will permit

3 FROM HERE AMONG "MICHIGAN GRADUATES

among those graduating June 10 from Michigan State college, East {Lansing, in the school’s third war- | time commencement exercises.

|Claire Sprague, 6137 Riverview dr., | {a major in liberal arts; Marion Au- | |drey Carlisle, 3924 N#New Jersey, | | home economics, and Ivan Stanley | | Meyers, R. R.'17, veterinary science. |

PARENTS

The value of poultry manure is greatly increased by adding half its weight of superphosphate. Mix thoroughly before applying to garden or shrubbery. Evergreens will be especially benefited. Spread at the rate of five to seven pounds per 100 square feet of bed area. Spraying with aluminum sulphate, a heaping tablespoonful to a gallon of soapy water, will repel rabbits from your garden. Temporary repellents advised for squirrels and rats, which are wont to eat your ripening corn, are spraying with three ounces’ of Epsom salts to a gallon of water, | or one teaspoonful of Lysol to a gallon of water.

9. De you know that all author- |

Rocap, Indianapolis, treasurer;

ford City, warden, :

—————————— WARN OF WRONG ADDRESSES WASHINGTON, May 29 (U.P) — The office of war information, in a report urging the home folks to take greater care in addressing letters to servicemen, estimated today that about 15 per cent of mail sent overseas is incorrectly and told how one letter traveled 12,000 miles before reaching its destination. .

Columbus, announced today that the 1945 convention site would be select-

Fitzgerald took office as the state convention ended yesterday. Other

don, Michigan City, secretary; John

Michael Boland, Brookvill®, advocate, and Bernard Schantz, Hart-

year’s short rations. Walter PF. Straub, chief of processed foods rationing at OPA, contends this year’s pack must be moved during the pack year as a prod to packers and

etable growers.

back about 20 per cent of

commercial veg-

sso Ann Stevick

Mr. Straub cited a sample sur-

Consumer Group |

~ Rationing of Canned Foods

WASHINGTON, May 20—The little women with the market baskets, as represented by members of the consumer advisory com1: mittee of the office of price

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May 29, 194 | Three Indianapolis students are |

The local graduates are Kathryn

OF THOSE IN SERVICE TO MEET

The parents of servicemen and meet Friday in Ben

which were not treated for control September, should be

i | | { last tre Paradichlo-

treated at this time. robenzine and parascalcide are effective eradicators, if manufacturer's directions are followed.

post No. 64. An effort to form a fathers’ club will be made: The pending G. I. bill of rights

will be discussed as will the respon- |

sibilities of the government to

servicemen ‘before and after dis-|

charge.

By A. A. The great armv of victory sides; on the “left” by the bli‘z

persistent weeds; and squarely in

fighting—the need for food is grea

Insects may be classed in two groups, first, those with chewing mouth parts that eat the plant, such as the Mexican bean beetles

potato beztles, and cucumber beetles. Second, those with suckIng mouth parts that suck the

Juices out of the plant tissues by inserting their needle-like mouth parts into the plants, such as plant lice or aphids, leaf hoppers and flea beetles,

bean leaf beetle. It appears shortly after the plants come up and eats holes in the leaves. The beetle falls to the ground and hides when you go into the garden.

The next few days will be the turning point in this food war.

The insect that “plays possum” | ‘when plants are disturbed is the |

Weekly Garden Almanac

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gardeners is being attacked on three

of insects; on the “right” by the “front” by the blistering hot un, Keep t. A stomach poison such as lead arsenate, calcium arsenate, and cryolite, should be used for the control of chewing insects. The contact insecticides —Trotenone, pyrthrum, cryolite and nicotine sulphate—are used for the control of insects with sucking mouth parts. Contact insecticides must be sprayed or dusted directly on the insects’ “body to kill.

The bean leaf beetle may be controlled easily by spraying or dusting the young plants with lead arsenate or cryolite. This beetle should not be confused with the Mexican bean beetle, which presents a far more serious problem. :

The number one job in most of the gardens this week will be killing the weeds. During the past two weeks, weeds and grass _ have gotten a real start.

Grass is a troublesome weed in most gardens during rainy weatheer. If the grass is pulled out by hand, put the plants in a basket

{and carry them out of the garden.-

Grass plants can lie in the sun for two or three days and then a rain will start them growing again.

4 ‘his garden all summer, :

As fast as space is available in the garden it can be cleaned off’ and replanted to another crop.’ A good gardener will be seeding some crops almost every week

insecticide,

YESTERDAY

IN OUR STORE...

THEY SERVED YOU

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administration, pleased with the end of rationing on canned vegetables Some members of the committee, made up of about 20 representatives of farm, professional, and union groups, spoke up in last week's meeting in favor of immediate resumption of rationing to Boia

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us and the loss of everything a free people hold dear.

Agresta, Michael Altenbach, Cecil Armstrong, Robert

Baldwin, Robert F. Pred

Belcher, Vernon Berkowitz, Leonard

IN MEMORIAM % WILBURN COLLINS Died in Service—July 19, 1043.

vw LIEBEL ENGEL Killed in Service—June 5, 1943.

ddle, Harold Bigay, Regino : % CHARLES McGUIRE llingsly, Rob 944, Bhs Bs pe Killed in Action—January 6, 1 Biske, Geo. W % OLIVER NEESE Bl. Edgar Killed in Action—June 9, 1943. Bolido, J Border, Donald % PAUL TAYLOR Boyden, Jac Killed in Action— Garth Boyer. Sar L December 6, 1042.

Brown, John Bruce, Hillary Bull, Mary K. Graves, Richard Koch, Robert Bunch; Berio Garland, Jane T. Kohlman, Robert Byerly, James Garrett, John Kraft, William Gasaway, J. V, Kulpinski, Charles Calbert, Eugene try. Alvin Campbell, Weldon R. Dex ™ rig Lebowitz, Joe Sarey. i Gilkerson, Dorothy Lee, Harold

’ Goodnight, Herbert Levenstein, Gerold

Carter, Elmer Gray, William Lindblom; Maurice " Chertas, Anthony Green, Everett Lingenfelter, Alfred Christ, Harold Griffin, Robert Lodbell, Fred G. Christoph, Charles Gross, Morton Lynch, Thomas Cofleld, Morris Haag, Stanley Lyon, Joseph Hart Colby, er Harley, Charles Lloyd, Joseph Coleh, Wilber . t, Laura Lytton, Hugh Collins, Robert Hamp, Willie Levy, Charles % Collins, Wilburn Harity, Mary Ann Conconnan, Cletus Harliss, Vale McConnell, David Cook, Harmon, Robert McCorkle, Robert Corman, Bud Harper, Don McCoy, William Sime meade Neo So Kenneth el, S Clark, Hester, Rubin * McGuire, Charles Day, Noble Higgins, Paul McQuillan, William Daugherty, John Horrall, Stanley Davis, Char liam E. Maar,

Let us show them from this day forward, that this higher service is net offered in fully, Let's prove to them with War Bonds, with conservation, and with our blood plasma, that we

can not forget for a single moment the debt we owe to those who stand between

Namias, Albert Neal, Kenneth

% Neese, Oliver

Nelson, Yosha

Shorter, Wilber Smith, Gerald Smith, Jack A. Smith, Joe Smith, Loran Brooks Smith, Warren Smock, Gilbert Speck, Alfred Springer, Jaises urgeon, e ny Emmet Starkey, Norris

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