Evening star., 1917-04-08

If YOU have been waiting for street
sweepirss to use in your garden as fer
tilizer YOU may begin garden work to-
morrow.
Street sweepings for fertilizer use
will be available tomorrow and every
day thereafter for Washington amateur
gardeners as long as the supply holds
out Arrangements by which this fer
tiliZer may be procured were completed
yesterday by the central garden COM
mittee following conferences with J.
w Paxton superintendent of street
cleaning. and his assistant. Robert E.
Doyle.
Gardeners should make careful note
of these arrangements From two
places where street Sweepiugs are
dumped any one may go and take all he
wishes. These dumps are at 18th and
+ streets northeast and Pennsylvania
avenue and 18th street southeast. That
the street sweepings dumped on these
tracts are valuable for use as fertilizer
is attested by the fact that farmers and
gardeners already have used them. Last
fall the street cleaning department
dumped large quantities of leaves and
manure on lot in the square bounded
by 24th. 25th. n and o streets north
west This mixture makes a rich fer
tilizer, and it, too, may be taken with
out further formality.
Must Have Permit at This Place.
More sweepings are to be had at 30th
and Water streets northwest. but a per-
init must be obtained to take this fer
tilizer away. Such permits may be OBJ
tanned by calling on the phone the
street cleaning department at the Dis
trict building telephone Main $1,000 or
writing to the department. From this
dump the District workhouse. at Occo-
uuan, gets much of the fertilizer used
on the farm there.
If one load or more fertilizer is
wanted and the tracts for which it is
needed lie within the limits where the
sweepings would be dumped. the street
cleaning department will deliver them.
Thus all persons wanting this guam
tity, living south of Zoo Park, south of
10th street and Piney Branch road.
south of Allison street at Georgia ave-
nue., and west of 18th and E streets
| northeast, and of Pennsylvania avenue
and 18th street southeast, may have it
delivered. To do SO they should call or
write the street cleaning department.
In the sweepings on the dumps and in
those delivered Will be found some sticks
and paper and other rubbish but this
easily may be removed. and it does not
impair the value of the sweepings as
fertilizer. Persons should be careful not
to use sweepinsS which have a heavy oil
content, easily dfscernible because of the
color, that is bad for the soil
I'll. NJ. Connolly, expert of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture, last evening gave a
talk at the Takoma Park Library before
the Horticultural Club and the Boys and
Girls Garden Club of that community.
Yesterday Mr.. Conolly visited the Fair
brother School and gave the children
| there advice about cultivating the tract
on the site of the old Potomac School.
Expert Offers Advice.
L. w. Holland has written to The Star,
| suggesting plan which is thoroughly
approved by the central garden commit
| tee, and already was being" worked out
by the committee. Mr.. Holland states:
There are a great many men in this
city, like myself, who have a practical
| knowledge of the growing of garden
| truck and the various phases of farming.
that have no land they can cultivate, who
| will gladly offer assistance and advice
| gardening. I. therefore, would suggest
| that you start a movement for volunteer
services from all such men who will offer
| their cooperation.
| Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, who already
has been seeking volunteers to direct the
| work in various sections of the city, will
| communicate with Mr.. Holland, and yes
| terday she sent forth another appeal for
volunteers. These leaders are needed in
| all sections of the city. Persons wish
| ing to take charge of a garden club are
| requested to communicate with Mrs
| Rafter, by addressing the central garden
| committee, Room 304, Star building.
Mrs. Norman Jones of Tenleytown, cap
! tain of Girl Scout Troop, No. IL, has
| volunteered for this work
|
| Bread that will keep fresh two weeks