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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-02-27
Cohens Office Building At Bahama And Fleming Nea Completion
Recruiters Here

SCI. Charles A. KanlewSh viii
be here Monday and Tuesday 70
answer questions abou; the DRAFT
and provide information on enlist.
ment IN the Army or Air Force
He viii be az the draft board
office in the Post Office buildins
iron . q. m. to $50 p. m. bot
days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-02-27
COAL STRIKE STILL ON

TOKYO R-Japan's prolonged
coal strike goes into its third
stage tomorrow, KyodO news serv-
ice said today, with the first of a
series of 72-hour walkouts.
The second stage ended today
after a 48-hour work stoppage. The
strike began with a 9O-minute
walkout Feb. 8.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-02-27

Paintings which have been found
on the walls Of European caves
were put there by Cro-Magnon man
as much as 10000 years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-02-27

OF the 615 planes used on Euro
pean airlines. q or ( per cent are
French with So per cent British and
So per cent American.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-02-27

Americans. on the average rink
about a pint of vine q wee. and
Frenchmen about q pint a d.y.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-02-27
Key West Sailing Club Story
Told In National Magazine

The March issue Of Motor Boating viii article on
the organization and activity of Sailing Several
pcures viii accompany the article written by j.
LEFTY Director of the organization.
The club will celebrate its first birthday May has arovu
from Just few members who only eleven boats MI
od to substantial membership. with class, Selfish hsv
ing ten boats.
Thirty thiryve authorized to y the conch
like hurgee of the Key West Sailing Club.
Races will be held Sunday afternoon no~h
shore OF Oredse Key tSgs6ss Park There will for
the Saish Glass and other
the classes that report 70 the committee best
Two boats will make debut for this race: new SAM
fish completed and fast Nassau Dinghy
recently purchased by A. Dom Cobb
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-02-27

There Is a species of flea which
feeds only on field mice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Most of Commercial SDuce
At Flower Show Reserved
Workshop Meeting
Set Tuesday for
Flower Arrongers

A workshop meeting for pro-
spective exhibitors in flowers ar
ranging at the National Capital
Flower and Garden Show. to
open March 4 at the National
Guard Armory. will be held at
10 am. Tuesday at the Wood
ward & Lothrop Chevy Chase
store. it was announced by the
National Capital Garden Club
League.
League officials said demon
STATIONS Of flower arrangements
suitable for show arrangement
classes will be staged by COM
mittee members at the meeting.
Fresh arrangements of flowers
will be provided each day Of the
show, each under a distinctive
title. Thus there will be $50
arrangements in all, which will
keep the so arrangers busy.
Judges at the show will be from
the Eastern Seaboard generally.
~ In all and six each day. In
addition. there will be three
landscape architects to Judge
the 18 small gardens that will
be set up by Is garden clubs.
Mrs. Frederick Lang. chair
man of the garden club section
of the show. said all committee
heads will be present Tuesday to
discuss the work Of their groups.
These will include:
Mrs. James Wissler. judges
aides: Mrs. Charles v. Shannon,
entries; Mrs. John L. Bishop.
advance ticket sales. and Mrs.
Arthur Ringland. schedules.
The furniture to be used as
room settings for arrangements
will be on display. officials said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

turkeys or chickens. he thought,
you always run into trouble.
The more you provide for them,
the more things seem to happen
to them.
Turkeys. for example, will
respond to kind treatment by
turning up their heels and dy-
ing after consuming tons of
feed and just before they are
large enough to market.
So Pierre has started taking
care OF his pigeons. He has
fixed nice nesting places for
them in the barn, and has made
plans to fatten them up for his
table.
He figures that by next sea-
son they will have developed
some unheard of pigeon disease
by being cared for so we'll and
he will have no more pigeon
problems.
The roses in the front grounds
OF the Treasury Department
have been blooming sporadically
almost all winter. Only a few
blooms at time, to be sure. but
blooms nevertheless. They
braved the weather right up UNI
til the extreme cold of last
month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Life in the Country
Success RuIe?-Stock Up With What's Cheap;
Man May Kill OFF Pigeons With Kindness
By jones BirchfieId :

And ] hear he is driving a Cadil-
lac these days.
Bill Mcdonald tells me his
Labrador retriever has taken
up music. Bill said she got bored
reading so many books and de-
cided to take up the piano.
She likes to play for you, too.
Bill says all you have to do is
mention the piano, and up she
jumps to the keyboard and plays
piece.
Some people, he said, don't
understand, and may not appre-
ciate her melodies. But. that
happened to Stravinsky, too, and
look where he is today.
If you have any pigeons to
get rid of you might get in
touch with Pierre Parker. He
has a method.
For years, now. Pierre has
been fighting pigeons. They
roost in his barn and spoil his
hay. They eat his grain and
generally mess up the place.
Pierre tried shooting at them.
but that didn't discourage them
at all. Probably his aim wasn't
too good.
So now he has taken another
approach. If you try to raise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Clipping Dog Nails
Presents Problem;
Avoid Whippings
By Peter BoQqs

Never whip a dog with a SUCK
or the end Of a leash. II you
think he should be disciplined.
use a folded newspaper as a
whip: 1t will not hurt him but
the noise it makes will serve as
sufficient punishment. When you
whip a dog there are chances
that you might injure him phys
ically or break his spirit and
make him a timid animal for
the rest of his life.
If your dog lives in the coun-
try or in the suburbs and If he
has enough regular exercise, the
condition of his toenails need
not cause you any worry. Nature
will take care of them. But If
he lives in a city his toenails
may present a real problem.
Though they may grow long
and curved. don't try to cut or
trim the nails yourself. Let q
competent veterinary clip the
nails to the correct length. and
let him file them to the right
condition of bluntness.
If your dog eats his meals
regularly and heartily. it Is q
sign that he cannot be seriously
ill. One of the first indications
that a dog is ailing Is when he
refuses food. It isn't always q
sign of serious illness. but it Is
an indication that something Is
amiSS.
If your dog won't eat and
doesn't seem to be his usual
self, do not try to force food on
him for a period Of "a hours.
/ know of some breeders who
make 1t a practice to fast their
grown dogs on the average Of
one day each month.
A dogs natural instincts tell
him when to refuse food. But
If your dog should refuse to eat
two days in a row. by all means
consult a veterinarian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Poster Contest
For Schools Offers
Three Cash Prizes

More than 95 per cent Of the
space in the National Capital
Flower and Garden Show has
been reserved by exhibitors, &C
cording to Bertrand G. McGin-
Miss. chairman. The show comes
to the National Guard Armory
March 4 to 10.
The advance sale Of tickets, at
IS cents. has begun by all allied
florist stores, by the areas gar
Den clubs, by the AAA ticket
Office and by representatives in
the business Office lobby in The
Evening Star Building.
Feature of this years show
will be fountain with four jets
shooting spray around it. Multi
colored lights will play on the
cascading streams of water.
There will be gardens, growing
roses. carnations. orchids. tulips
and educational exhibits.
A poster contest is in progress
in all public. private and paro-
chial schools on the flower show
theme. Entries must be In at
the flower show Office. 1904
street NV. no later than
February 10. First prize is $25.
second pride SIS. third prize $40.
The winning poster will be re-
produced and used in promotion
activities and the original three
winning posters will be on view
at the show. Barney Klateman
is chairman of the Poster Com
mittee.
The commercial exhibitors in
clude the Conard-Pyle Co., Hills
Camelia Gardens. Gravely Po-
tomac. Inc: Diles Sales Co..
Chefmaster Products Co., Lord
& Burnham. Barnard L. Wolfe,
Natural Foods, James j. Rup-
pert Hardware. c. F. Armiger,
Inc; Niagara Equipment Co.,
Growers Exchange. Bookhouse
for Children, Woodland Art Co.,
Clersite Co., Para Laboratories,
j. H. Small & Sons, Inc; Fischer
Flowers, World Book Encyclo-
pedia. George E. Viereck g. Co.,
Maryland State Beekeepers' As
ISOLATION. American Agricultural
Chemical Co., Evening Star.
Swift & Co., Druid Park Seed
Corp. jeans Gift Shop, Wood
ward & Lothrop, F.. w. Bolgiano
& Co.. Hydroponic Chemical Co.,
Inc: Garden Supply Sales Corp,
American Chemical Paint Co..
Arcadian Gardens. Potomac
Rose Society, Leo Overtoom,
Waynesboro Nurseries, Inc;
Michigan Peat, Behnke Nurse
rieS.
The flower show is sponsored
by the Allied Florists of Greater
Washington and the National
Capital Garden Club League.
Mrs. Frederick w. Lang is chair
man of the Gardens Clubs Show
Committee,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
SuIt Is Necessary
In Beef Cattle Diet

Salt is one of the minerals
that must never be missing in
the ration of beef cattle.
Curtis Mast, animal husband
man at VPI. says cattle given all
the salt they want digest their
feed better, eat more of it and
gain faster at lower cost than
animals sighted on salt.
The best way to feed salt is in
a box as loose granular salt pro-
tected from the weather. The
animals will get enough salt this
way and won't have to work get
ting 1t from a block.
Mr.. Mast sees no harm in
using block salt. In fact, some
farmers say that If you stake
different points in the field, so
that a cow is never more than
five minutes from it, bloat may
be less of a problem. However,
block salt won't fill the bill COM
pletely. Always use loose salt,
too.
A complete cattle mineral
should be fed just as loose salt
is fed. Mr.. Mast suggests a
box with q partition, with loose
salt in one side and cattle min
eral in the other. Plans for
portable salt boxes which can
be moved from pasture to pas
ture are available from county
agents and from the Agricultural
Extension Service at VPI.
Mr.. Mast says research shows
that the consumption Of min
erals goes up In the fall when
forage dries up. hits its highest
peak In the winter months. and
then goes down in the spring
and summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
DohIio Society's
Show in Fall to
Test SEEDLINGS

The National Capital Dahlia
Society will conduct an expert
ment In dahlia seedlings.
It has obtained 200 California
dahlia seeds from the same seed
parent. Margrace, a beautiful
10-inch bright red dahlia whose
wavy petals are tipped with
gold and officially classified as
flame in color. Plants will be
raised from these seed by John
M. Collins who will give each
plant a code number.
The plants will then be sold at
the regular meeting Of the So
ciety in May for a nominal price.
A special Seeding Futurity"
class will appear in the show
schedule for dahlias raised from
these seedlings and a special
trophy will be awarded to the
exhibitor Of the best bloom in
this class.
Visitors to the show. Septem-
Der rs and 26. will have oppor-
tunity to see how many different
types and colors of dahlias can
be obtained from the same seed
parent.
It Is also intended to have
another special class in the 1855
Show Schedule for second-year
dahlias raised from these same
code dahlias. This will afford
the growers a second chance to
exhibit since some may not be
able to time their plants this
year to get their best blooms on
September 25. The second year
exhibitors will, Of course, have
to winter the clumps success
fully. Probably the winner of
the 1855 Seeding Futurity will
have a dahlia worthy Of intro
dIlctinn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
GordenCIub
Activities

Arlington Rose Garden FOun-
dation plans a membership meet
ing dinner February Is. 7 pm.
Evans Coffee Shop. Alto Lee
highway. Rose pruning demon
stration at Arlington Hospital
grounds, 5120 Sixteenth street
north. March 81. over 1000 rose
bushes grace hospital grounds
garden created as testimonial to
World War II veterans. Club
plans further Identification: also
asks $500 from county for de-
velopment New officers: Mrs. M.
T. Broyhill. honorary president;
L. v. Perry, president; Mrs. E. E.
Colbert. Ross Shearer. DR.. Glen
Splitter, vice presidents; Miss
Minnie Parker. recording secre-
tary. Mrs. Andy Wallen. CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Lester
Evans. treasurer; Mrs. Alice Fay.
parliamentarian; Norman Buck
ley. league representative; Mrs.
Emil Mostek, John Edmunds.
Mrs. Frances Swanson, Robert
Anderson. I. M. Hodge. Mrs.
Mary Simpson, board of direc-
tors.
HiIlandale Gardeners will meet
tomorrow. 8 pm. in Hillandale
f1rehouse; eaker, w. H.
Youngm man. on Pruning
Shrubs"
National Capital Dahlia Soci-
ETY. will meet Thursday In room
43. National Museum. 8:l5 pm;
speakers, j. Leslie Bowling, in a
first phase demonstration of
propagation. and F. T. Minor,
on "Foliar Feeding" Dahlia
tubers will be sold.
Alta Vista Garden Club will
meet at 8 pm. Wednesday with
Mrs. Harry G. Kirst. 1902 Jarvis
lane. Bethesda; speaker DR..
Carl johnson. University Of
Maryland, on Thanksgiving the
Home Grounds"
Bradbury Heights Garden Club
will meet Thursday. 8 pm, in
the Methodist Church at 1900
Bowen road, Sc: Bolgiano rep
resentative to present an illus
trated lecture, Soil Conditioner.
Kirilium.'
NeighbOrhood Garden Club of
Arlington announces annual
winners and new officers: VIM
ners-Mrs. Frank Ball. for most
ribbons in horticultural monthly
exhibits: Mrs. Hugh Carey, for
most ribbons in arrangements:
Mrs. Ben Markert, for most win
ners in novice arrangements.
officers for 1954-Mrs. A. U.
Krebs. president; Robert Hem
pei. vice president: Mrs. Warner
Mckinney, treasurer; Mrs. r.
Hutchins. recording secretary;
Mrs. Linda Berg. corresponding
secretary.
Chevy Chase I'd. c. Garden
Club will meet tomorrow, 1890
pm, with Mrs. Vincent P. Wal
tiers. SOB Chevy Chase parkway;
co-hostesSes. Mrs. Allen Ariey,
Mrs. Samuel KERRY; program:
white elephant sale. arrange
ments of dried floral material.
ri Alpha Xxi, Horticulture soci-
ETY. at the University of Mary
land. will meet Tuesday. 8 pm,
campus Agriculture Auditorium.
Program: talk. European Gar
dens and Arboretums" by DR..
Ernst Schreiner, geneticist with
United States Forest Service,
Upper Darby Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

place with mules, and sure
enough, it happened.
The next year cattle prices
went so low you couldn't find
them, but mules were bringing
good money down in the south
ern cotton country. He made
q lot of money.
So far as I know my friend
is still following his system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
EorIiest-C Crop Techniques
Seeds Con BePushed Into Plants Indoors;
How to Use Sphognun. Moss, Vermicuiite
By w. n. Younemon
The Stars Garden Editor

been placed in the center Of the
pot.
The pots were placed In q cool
sunny situation and were not
touched until the seedlings had
their first pair Of true leaves
which is the stage for trans
planting to pots or flats for fur
Their growing. This Ia Q some
what less burdensome way Of
growing seeds than the older
method.
The sphagnum moss for start
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Liqhts Aid Plants

House plants require light and
humidity and supplementary
lighting can be furnished by
using duorescent lamps. Evap-
Grating pans can be placed on
radiators to help maintain hui
midity. Ventilation Is essential
for removal of cooking gases and
humidity control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
u. Of Nd. Publication

Chutes solve many Of the prob
lens cattlemen have with han
ding stock. and q new Univer-
sity Of Maryland publication,
Fact Sheet II. Cattle Chutes
for Easier Handling" gives di-
rections for building strong and
convenient ChuteS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

earliest pos
Sible harvests.
G ard e ners
through o u t
history have
always sought
to speed up
harvestS and
one way In
which 1t Is
C o III m o My
done Is to
start plants in
boxes indoors.
Success will
be determined,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

I used to know a man who was
a ve.. successful farmer. He
had q system all his own. It
was something like the betting
systems people sometimes work
out to beat the horses. Only his
always worked.
It was so simple that I'll pass
it on without charge. Anybody
can follow it. All you have to
do Is take a look at the live
stock prices and stock up with
the animals that are selling low
est.
I remember one year, a long
time ago. cattle were selling
high, but mules weren't worth
feeding. My friend stocked his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

tent, by the facilities at hand.
If everything has to be done in
q south window from starting
the seed to raising the seedlings
to transplanting size. obviously
the operation will be rather re-
stricted.
A coldframe enlarges the scope
of operations. and an electrically
heated hotbed opens the door for
many more activities.
In a greenhouse where the
temperatures are carefully con-
trolled the plants may be started
early in a warm temperature and
then moved to a cooler situation
where they will develop into
strong, stocky plants.
How to Count Beck on PIonts
In general. we may calculate
the time Of sowing by counting
backwards from the normal out
of-door planting. For example,
we usually plan on setting cab
bage, cauliflower, broccoli, kohl
rabbi. head lettuce and beet plants
in the garden in late March:
tomatoes and other warm wealth
er plants should not be set out
until late April or early May;
eggplant and peppers might bet
ter wait until mid-May unless
the soil is warm.
Generally speaking it takes
4 to 6 weeks to grow a plant
ready for the garden of such
kinds as cabbage. broccoli, kohl
rabbi. head lettuce and cauli-
flower. Tomatoes. eggplant.
peppers. saliva. petunia usually
take 6 to 8 weeks. With this in
formation in mind it Is posi-
BILE to time the seed sowing
within the limits Of facilities
available. This is important since
from the time Of sowing the
seed until the plant is placed
in the garden it should be kept
in vigorous growth. Whenever
growth is checked or the plant
stunted the final result Is at
fected.
Stortine Material for Bed
In starting seeds indoors it Is
advisable to avoid the use Of the
traditional soil-filled seed box.
Soil. unless sterilized by heat or
with a chemical, is almost GER
tain to contain spores Of the de-
Structive disease of seedlings
commonly called "damping- off. p"
To avoid the chore of sterilizing
soil and to insure healthy plants
most gardeners now start their
seeds in either sphagnum moss
or in vermiculite. go
A common practice is to I'LL a
box or flower pot two-thirds full
of soil and then layer of either
the pulverized sphagnum moss or
vermiculite.
The seed are sown on top Of
this layer and covered with the
same material, except very tiny
seeds which are not covered.
Moisten well and cover with
glass. paper or polyethylene.
The cover is important In keep
ing the surface from drying and
affecting the sprouting of the
seeds. After they have their
roots down into the starting
media there is much less dan
ger of loss from dryness. The
paper should be removed as soon
as the seedlings begin to push
through the moss or other
media. The glass will need to
be removed as soon as the leaves
touch 1t. The polyethylene may
be left on until the seedlings are
big enough to be transplanted
if there is space enough so that
the young plants do not touch 1t.
The PoIyethyIene Bog Method
Last year a number of seeds
were sown in small flower pots
and after thorough watering they
were placed in polyethylene
bags. The tops of the bags were
tied around q stake which had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

Getting a head start on
nature is always fun. especi-
ally when 1t comes to get
ting plants ready for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Indoor Seed Sowing
Timetable


elephants: ageratum, alyssum,
cosmos, gaillardia. phlox. pinks,
snapdragon, verbena, scabiosa.
APRu-Muskmelon, cucum-
bers; marigold. petunia. saliva.
zinnia.
ing seeds may be obtained from
the garden supply stores-it
should be dry. Once wet or used.
1t is not safe. Pulverize the
coarse moss as 1t comes from the
store by rubbing through quar-
ter-inch screen. The vermiculite
(for plant use) Is. of course. diff
ferent from that sold for insula-
tion-use the smaller of the three
sizes for starting seeds.
Setting Out in Flots
When the seedlings have de-
veloped their first pair of true
leaves they should be set out In
fats or pots: II In boxes space
them at least one-inch apart.
two inches is much better. Pots
are usually perferred to boxes
because the roots of each plant
are kept intact and there is less
shock in setting them out in the
garden.
The soil mixture for seedlings
may be from equal l.arts of
sand, garden loan and compost.
Some gardeners add a cupful of
5-10-5 to each bushel of soil pre-
pared. However. a newer practice
is to use a starter" solution i'm
mediately following the trans
planting process. There are a
number of prepared fertilizers
sold for this especial purpose.
Seeds normally are started in
a warmer situation than where
the seedlings are grown. In a
warm situation termination is
usually more rapid than in a
cold one. However. the plants
need a cool situation between
SIS degrees and IS degrees If they
are to make a sturdy stock
growth. The exception to this
rule-the plants which thrive in
hot weather and include petuni-
as, peppers and eggplants to
mention q few. In all cases
they will need as much sunlight
as they can get. Even in a sunny
window they should be turned
frequently to keep them from
bedding towards the light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
The PoIyethyIene Bog Method

Last year a number of seeds
were sown in small flower pots
and after thorough watering they
were placed in polyethylene
bags. The tops of the bags were
tied around q stake which had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

ri Alpha Xxi, Horticulture soci-
ETY. at the University of Mary
land. will meet Tuesday. 8 pm,
campus Agriculture Auditorium
Program: talk. European Gar
dens and Arboretums" by DR..
Ernst Schreiner, geneticist with
United States Forest Service,
Upper Darby Pa.
Evening star., 1954-11-14

thing about that property" he
admitted without preamble. Il
didn't know any more than you
that / owned it. 1t isn't worth
anything to me. What would you
consider a fair price for it?"
Berlin, aware that he was at
Clum's mercy, was mt a mo-
mentary loss for words when
the caretaker grinned Mt him
and added, stW0uld you think
fifty dollars too much to ask?"
AND THAT'S WHAT the final
price proved to be - despite