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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1914)
-n TUB OMAHA SUNDAY 13E10: AlAIU'U 15, 11)14. nA EVERYTHIN FOR THE GARDEN TO TEACH HOME GARDENING U. S. Commissioner Suggests Plan SHE IS STATE INSPECTOR GARDEN SEEDS. OF Plants lu the ground without disturbing the roots. 1 could hardly wait fur August, when tho flower nppenred, beautiful tfnrk red, scarlet, pure white, pink and arlegHtcd. They bloomed until frost, nnd when I lug tho roots I hurt n large iK'X of tubers, all from one small packet of seeds. MISS A. MINSHY Gardening is an Aid to Health of Those to Bring Profit. OF GREAT HELP TO CHILDREN l s I pROTECT your growing trees against insects and disease by spraying. Now is the time to do it. We have a complete line of spraying materials. "Seeds that grow'' Need any? The Nebraska Seed Company 1613 Howard Street. Phone Doug. 1261. A good food for grass is pulverized sheep manure They Must Be Moved A largo stock of fruit trees grown on leased ground. Now that tho lease Is up we must remoyo them. Some of the younger plants and trees will be planted on our newly purchased farm at Key stone park. The balance will be sold at greatly reduced prices. Nice young apple trees, Cc, young cherry trees 15c oach. Larger grades proportionately low. Mil. FARMER, LET ME FIGURE WITH YOU ON YOUR APPLE ORCHARD. FOR THE CITY MAN, a general line of shade and ornamental trees, hedge plants, shrubs and roses. See our beautiful maple white ash and the poplars. NO SALESGROUND STOCK. ALL FRESH DUG FROM THE NURS ERY. Call and see us or PHONE US YOUR ORDER'. If out of Omaha send for price list. Offico and Packing Ground, 01st and Itiggs Benson-Omaha Nursery P. J. Flynn, Proprietor. Benson, Neb., Tel. Benson 034. This Is the season to tntnk about Improving' YOUR LAWN and BACK YARD. Let us show you how w can save you money on our line of IRON and TORE FENCING, GATKS. FLOWER BED BORDER, TRELLIS for vines and roses, TREE GUARDS. Come and see them we will be glad to give you an estimate on the cost of what you need, and we may have some suggestions " worth while for you. Send for catalogue. Telsphons Bed 814. M. P. Byrd Nursery Co. 17th and Dodge Sts. Back of Hayden's Store Make your homo beautiful and attractive this aummor artis tically planting shruba and trees in your yard. Let Byrd help you in arranging your grounds. Call Douglas 4408 and a professional landscapo man will call upon you. mUD'S NURSERY STOCK ALWAYS EXCELS. MMnHHHHHHnBnnnHBH I Secure your garden needs from the advertisers on this page. They offer the best that can be obtained. MANY CATTLE COMING NORTH Burlington Man Expects Heavy Movement from Texas. OUTLOOK BETTER THAU IN 1013 e'tdclc Sent to Nebraska and Wyom ing Last Season Went Throagh In Good Shape and Ileady for Karlr Market. Fred Montmorency, central freight agent of the Burllnfton, Is back from an extended trip thrpush Texas, where hi vent to look after cattle business that U it 1 207 Worth Seventeenth Street. to move Into Nebraska and Wyoming this season. He found that whllo the Texas rango Is in fairly good condition the cattle movement this year la likely to exceed that of last, when more than S0.000 head were sent north. Tho experience that Texas ranchmen ad cattle raisers had last season in send ing their cattle north has convinced them that the range sections of Nebraska and Wyoming aro tho best in the world and that they propose to take advantage of the conditions existing In the two states. &ast spring when the Texas cattle were chipped north they were thin and weak After getting onto the northern ranges they took on flesh very rapidly and were In condition to send to market early In the summer, whereas, If kept on the southern ranges they would not have been i I B a To Provide 1'rof I tnlilc Occnnntlon l)iirlnr Summer .Mont ha Much Miiro Healthful Tlimi Work Inir lit MIIU. Home gardening directs! by tho school Is offered by Dr. I. 1. Claxton,- United States cominlsx'oner of education, ns a sdutlon for some of tho most pressing t-duratlonnl and economic problems In city and subnrlmn life. Dr. Claxton would have cvjry vacant town lot trans formed Into a garden, whero boys and girls would raise vegetables, berries and fruit for plwisuro and for profit Ho would have one teacher In tho commu nity employed twelve months In the year to teach elementary science In school and direct the home-garden work after school, on Saturdays and during tho summer vacation. "Of the UOuO.OOO children between the ages of 6 and 20 In tho cities, towns, man ufacturing villages and suburban com munities cf the United Htates," says Dr. Claxton, "not more than 13 per cent arc away from homo during the summer va cation or engaged In regular employ ment. Tho remaining 85 per cent remain at homo without any useful, healthful, productive occupation requiring any largo part of their time. On tho other hand, there Is much valuable land In hack yards and vacant lots that Is serving no useful purpose. The problem Is to bring this land and these children together. Should llnvc Teuplier. "In every school nnd community thero should bo at least ono teacher who knows gardening, both theoretically and practically. This teacher should teach the elemontary sciences In the schools during tho school hours and should, out of school hours, direct the homo garden ing of tho children between the ages of 7 or 8 and H or IB. If possible, tho teacher should havo tho assistance of an oxport gardener, so that the work may be done In tho most practical and profita ble way. The teacher and tho gardener should help the children find the plots of ground In back yards, front yards and vacant lots near their homes best suited for gardening work, aid them by some co-operative method to have tho lots properly plowed and prepared for culti vation, help them select seeds, show them how to plant, cultlva'to and harvest, so as to obtain the best results. MnkcM Riiod Profit. "Vegetables, berries and fruits grown should be used first as food for the chil dren and their families; then tho surplus should be marketed to tho beBt advan- tage. Through tho help of tho teacher this can bo done In a co-operatlvo way. Ten or fifteen cents' worth of vegetables each day from the gardens of each of 200 children would amount to $30 or 30. In the summer and fall, when the surplus Is largo and cannot be marketed to ad vantage, tho teacher should direct and help the children in canning and pre serving for winter uso or for sale. Tho canning and tomato clubs of the south ern states havo already shown what can be dono In this way. "It Is difficult to estimate tho results of this plan when it shall bo In full op eration throughout the country. For the children it will mean health, strength, Joy In work, habits of Industry, an un derstanding of the value of money, ns measured In terms of labor, and such knowledge of tho phenomena and forces of nature as must bo had for an under standing of most of their school lessons. They will also learn something at least of tho fundamental prlnclplo of morality; that each Individual must make his or her own living; must, by some kind of labor of head, hand or heart contribute to the commonwealth as much as ho takes from- It; must pay for what he gets In some kind of coin. Burn Store 'I'll an at Mill. "This plan In full operation would probably do more toward keeping young children out of tho factories and mills than all of tho child-labor laws on the statuto books. A boy 10 or 12 years of age, with a quarter of on acre of land, working under careful direction, can Try Buying YOUR HARDWARE NECESSITIES OF US For We Have on Hand This Spring a Complete Line of Paints, Oils, Glass, Rubber Hose and Garden Tools Dunham Lawn Rollers 1612 Harney Street Wire and iron Fences Trellises for Vines Wire Arches Summer Houses Chairs and Settees Tree and Flower Guards Lawn Vases CHAMPION IRON & fit for gratsfed beef before late summer or early fall While In Texas Mr Montmorency found the majority of the Texans ready and anxious to declaro war and cross the Rio Grande river and capture Mexico. This fighting Idea did not exist to such a great extent among the northern men who have located In Texas, but those who have resided there most of their lives and thoso who were borne there, to a man, were spoiling for a fight. While Mr. Montmorency did not get down to the Mexican border, he got far enough south to note some of the effects of the rebellion that has been going on In Mexleo. He saw numerous refugees, both men and women, and as a rule, they were poverty stricken, almost without cloth. Ing and with little to cat with the excep I (San J outs a Alien produce more for tho support of tho family than could bo purchased with tho child's wages from the, mill. Children should not be ground in the mills nor sweated in tho factories; their strength should not be supped and their nerves racked by working In the heat nnd dust of Indoors, yet all children should learn to work; It is good for ttiem and they Joy in It. To work with its feet in the soli, its head in tho sunshine and Its lungs filled, with good, fresh air Is not a bad thing for any healthy child. Help Solmol Attcnilnnce. "Probably ono of the moBt valuable results of this plan would bo to make It easy for moot children to attend Bchoot three or four years longer than they now do, a thing more and more desirable, slnco education for life and cttUenshlp In our Industrial, civlo and social democ racy cannot be obtained beforo the age cf adolescence. It a Child can Contribute to its support while In school, It may re main in school much longer than it It must be carried as a dead weight until It quits school to go to work. "Compared with tho results, tho cost will bo inconsiderable. No addition to the number of teachers will be required. It will only be necessary to require dif ferent preparation for one teacher in each school." In the estimates submitted to congress by tho commissioner of education for tho support of the bureau In the next fiscal year an item of $5,700 lu Included to ena ble tho bureau to begin tho Introduction of this kind of work In tho schools of tho United States. The commissioner be lieves that It will only bo necessary to work out details of plans and to present them to school officers, togethor with full Information in regard to results of somowhat similar work already dono at various places. Young Woman Grows Dahlias from Seed Although I never neglect the old stand bys, I mako a point of keeping Interest allvo In my garden by trying something now every yenr. Last year I grew single dahlias from seed, and it Is a very interesting way to grow this old favorite. Ono nevor knows what color the flowers will bo or what they will bo like. It Is In this mannor, growing from seeds, that now varieties aro produced nnd Bomo odd flowers aro certain to result. I started tho seed In tho houso on March 10, planting It In an Inverted sod, which I kept well watered and In a sunny window. In April, when the plants wero well up, I placed tho sod in a box which was covered with glass and placed on a tablo In a sheltered part of the garden. When planting out tlmo arrived I divided the sod and placed my little BURNETTS "OMAHA'S QUALITY HARDWARE" "Anythlnr Bsllversd Any Minuts." and Gates for Lawn, Garden and Poultry Yards. and Roses. Grape Arbors. Flower Borders. WIRE WORKS, 15th and tion of what Is being given to them by the citizens of the towns and neighbor, hoods where they are stopping. The Texans, according to Mr. Mont morency, do not believe that peace will be restored In Mexico In years unless the United States intervenes. They go upon the theory that It makes little difference what faction wins 1:. the present struggK It will mean another rebellion wtlhln u hort time. Talking with Texans who have been over in Mexico, he learned that tho country has been devastated by raid ing bands and that but little has been raised Jn the way of crops for several years. The country Is stripped of live stock, stores havo been looted and money and all kinds of property have been con fiscated, first by one faction nnd then by another Who Havo Lost Zest! Thtco years ngo a physician's order sent me to tho country to dig my health out of the soil. Consequently my father bought a sninll farm and I took the vegetnblo, garden for my special chnrgo. Bulletins on the subject Wero secured from Washington and tho experiment stations, nnd alt Available rending mat- tcr In papers nnd imtgnzlnos carefully j jxrujfd for sungestlons and ndvlcc. The seed order was made out after camparlnrr the lists sent by tollable sccdvmen, and only standard varieties worn chosen, The garden whh about COxlXi feet, nnd I could not do all thn work In It myself Htm, I did rnko, plant, hon nnd water faithfully, nnd was rewarded by having tho best gulden In this vicinity. The sea son was very dry, but constant eultlva t'on conserved the moisture nnd made things grow. All summer nnd fall thern were more fresh vegetables than our family of eight could uso. nnd benns, tomatoes nnd bocts wero canned and different kinds of plcklo and catsup put up. Stored In tha cellar wero potatoes, turnips, carrots, salsify, cabbago and celery for winter use. Aside, from those substantial results my health was greatly Improved. Every night brought long hours of refreshing sleep nnd I was enjoying llfo to an ex tent I never knew possible before. If you are a business woman nnd have lost tho zest you once had for your work, If you are fagged out at night and still tired when you arise In the morning, by all. means get out Into tho country at onCo and mako a garden. MISS MARK A. COCKS. Sprays Fruit Trees With Nitrate of Soda; Has Record Crops A poach orchard on a farm up tha Hud son river last year produced an unusually largo crop .of large, solid, luscious, highly colored fruit. The crop brought tho high est prlco of any fruit grown In that vi cinity. All the neighbors were endeavor ing to learn what method of culture was practiced, but the owner simply stated that he had a cecret method ho proposed to keep to himself. It happened that ono of tho spectators know that large quanti ties of nltrato of soda had been shipped to this grower, which was used as a. spray on tho foliage of the trees Instead of' ap plying It to tho soil for the benefit of tho roots of tho trees. Tho announcement was not reported nt the time, becnuso tho observer concluded that trie benefit was received from tho spray falling to tho ground and thus acting as a soli fertil izer rather than producing any benefit from being applied to Uio foliage. We would not now say that this wos not tho case, certainly not until further experi ment!) have been tried. A report reaches us from California stating that spraying with nltrntn nf soda, aapplying tho fertilizer to tho bios-1 nnms and hrnnihn rt I . .1 of to tho roots, Is ono of the latest inno vations in California horticulture, and growers report that tha success has been phenomenal. In tho Tajaro valley, according to ro ports, in an Impoverished npplo orchard, seven trees In tho center of tho orchard wero sprayed and the others wcreloft un sprayed, The soven sprayed trees bore heavily and tho unsprayed wero prac tically unproductive. Tho productive trees Were sprayed with a solution of soda, ono pound to tho gallon. Another tree was treated with the somo amount of nitrate of soda worked into tho soil as used In spraying each of the other trees. This tree showed an im provement in the crop, but was not nearly i as productlvo as the sprayed trees. Pennsylvania Lawn Mowers Phone Douglas 421 Clothes Posts Iron and Wire Window Guards Screen Door Guards Send for Catalogue. Jackson. Tel. Doug. 1590 Big Shipment of Shamrocks Arrives NKW YORK. March K-Seventeen thousand pots of shamrock were brought to port yesterday from Ireland for thn annual celebration of March J7. Tho little green plants were looked after by loyal Irishmen In the ship's crew. Kvery sailor wore a small bunch on his cap when ho came ashore last night. MANUAL TRAINING FOR ALL SCHOOLS FAVORED At a meeting of the buildings and grounds committee of the Uoard of Edu Why We Satisfy Our Patrons We Plant All Our Nursery Stock. We Sow' All Our Seeds. Quality Stock, Professional Service Enables Us To Guarantee Results or We Will Refund Your Monoy Nebraska Park, Tree & Floral Co., DR. A. WALT STEINLE, Pres. Tree Surgeons, Lawn Experts, Nurserymen, Florists, Landscape Gardeners, Lawn Seedsmen Phone Tyler 2036. 617 So. 16th St. NOW is tho time to PLAN and PREPARE for your LAWN, VEGETABLE GARDEN and FLOWER BEDS. A complete line of FLOWER, GRASS and VEGE TABLE SEEDS, POULTRY and BEE KEEPERS' Sup plies and Garden Tools always on hand. An illustrated catalogue mailed on request. Stewart's Seed Store Phone Douglas 977. 119 No. i6th St. Opposite P. O. A. DONAGHUE All kinds of beautiful Potted Plants, choice Out Flowers fresh every day from our Greenhouse. OUR PRICES REASONABLE. OUR SERVICE PROMPT. SEfclDfei AND NURSERY STOCK XXaXXBT QVAX.XTT AT 1814 KJLXWBT BTXXST. Lawn drain Seed of 27-lb. teat per bushel, with termination of over 10. Flower Heeds front the oldest and beet gardens of America and Europe. I have the largest stock of garden and flower seeds in the city. WERTER DeVAUGHN Phone Tyler 3060. SCOTT-RAWITZEE MFG. CO. flUCCFSSOHS lO OMAHA TENT & AWNifi COMPANY Scott Tent & Awning Co. cation, a resolution was passed recom mending th-j Installation of a manual training courso in Train school. The sentiment of the committee seemed to be in favor of equipping every school In tho city with a manual training course. Member A. J. Durdln of the commltteo said: "I'm In favor of teaching manual train lng lu all tho rohools. Also, I believe we should bo better equipped for the work." Member Uurdin also deolared In favor of more auditoriums for schools, where neighbors could gather for social inter course and discussion of civic and eco nomic questions. PlKUter'a Income Tnx. I.oach Cross pu:d Income tax on 123,000 that ho received within the last ten months. Home of It, 'know, ho got out of his dentin work, iff Make Your Home Comfortable 0 This Summer by baying It equip ped perfectly with duality iwnlBfi, such a we pat up. The cost Is so rea sonably low that no one can afford to be without ivnlari this year. Shone, call or write as and we will gladly furnish an estimate on your work. 11th and Harney Sts. "KID" SLEDGEN0WSKI IS BROUGHT BACK TO OMAHA Fred Sledgenowskl, arrested In St. Louis for the theft of tna tmm tu . ' - ... . w at the McCrory store here last November, was prougnt to Omaha yesterday by Detective Bel Rich. Tho boy Insists that ho la not guilty, thouch h i9. k Identified as the man who stole the tray irom tne paymaster. COMMERCIAL CLUB PLANS GOOD FELLOWSHIP DINNER Arrangements aro belns made for the good fellowship dinner or the Commercial club to be given In the Commercial club dining room Tuesday evening; at ;3Q. j