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PAGE TEN THE ECHO April, 1947 *pri How Doe: ydur By BOB BOLT “Every blade of grass is a study; And to produce two Where there/ was but one Is both a profit and a pleaasure.” —Abraham Lincoln CHECK THOSE WEEDS! Spring is here! Also rain and weeds and spring fever! And again the most important garden work is weeding. It is most essential that weeds be pulled out of veg etable rows and flower beds as soon as they appear. Weeding be tween rows is less important but necessary to good gardening. Ear ly gardeners are already harvest ing radishes, leaf lettuce, onions and greens. Thinnings of beets, turnips, and lettuce may be used as greens cookifd or in salads. If .you’re bothered with root maggot in cabbage, broccoli, caul iflower, etc., put a collar flush with the ground around the plant. This prevents the parent fly from laying eggs near the roots. Cut worms can be checked by wrap ping a collar around the stems of such plants as cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. LIME HELPS Dig in a little lime around your cabbages, cauliflower, and broc coli. Be careful not to injure the roots. Asparagus beds may be limed very heavily. Don’t put lime and manure on your garden at the same time! The lime releases the all-important nitrogen from the manure in the form of ammonia gas, thus reducing its value. HOLD UP PLANTING TENDER CROPS Be sure to hold up planting of the tender crops such as cucum bers and other vine crops, lima beans, tomato, peppers, and egg plant until warm weather is def initely here. Wait until the tree leaves are well out. It is often more practical to buy plants of cabbage, tomato, eggplant, peppers and celery — especially if time, space, and patience are lacking. TIPS ON FLOWERS, SHRUBS Trees and shrubs can still be planted until June if they haven’t developed too much leaf growth. Balled and bagged plants and potted plants can be moved at al most any time if handled careful ly. Flower beds should be given a light but careful spading. Over crowded clumps of late blooming perennials such as phlox can be divided. Spring-flowering shrubs such as forsythia, spirea, etc. can be pruned now. Retaiember: Now is the time for good men to plant, cultivate, weed, dig worms and go fishing! WHEN IT’S SPRINGTIME IN THE BLUE RIDGE By JOHN GOOLSBY This is the time of year and also the place! Nowhere on earth do the soft, cool breezes whisper such a sweet lullaby as they do at Camp Sapphire. It’s your day off and you are sitting there listening to the birds sing. Old Mother Nature has taken care of your comforts and your mind wanders off a thousand miles. You are in a dream world. Yes, at this time of year it seems as if the whole world just wakes up and starts to breathe life—the Fishing Season Will Open June I At Camp Sapphire, Good Season Forecast An Estimated 1,000 Legal Size Bass And Brim ' In Lake I I Ecusta Is Host To WNCAC Group Goods news for the many fisher men here is the announcement that the fishing season at Camp Sap phire will open June 1 and will continue until late summer, the closing date to be announced later. Fishing at the lake this season should be the best since the camp opened. An estimated 400 legal size bass are in the lake and over 600 brim. These figures are based on the number planted in the lake and the number which have been caught. The limit this season per person, per day will be two bass of not less than 11 inches in length and five brim, not less than 6 inches long. Two years ago 95 bass over 12 inches long were put in the lake as breeder stock plus more than 1,000 fingerlings, sev eral inches long. Applications for fishing passes will be accepted at the Personnel Office, beginning May 15. There will be 15 passes issued per day on a first come, first served basis. In view of the fact that many ap plications are expected, only one pass per person can be issued for the first 30 days. After that time, passes will be issued more often if possible. The passes are good for one day. After you have secured your pass flowers bloom, the trees bud, and people are more cheerful. You know why? It’s spring! The Western North Carolina Associated Communities held its quarterly meeting here at Ecusta Tuesday, April 15, the members being guests of the company at a luncheon held in , the cafeteria Raymond F. Benhett welcomed the group to Ecusta arid Dr. W. A. Ashbrook of Western Carolina Teachers College at Cullowhee re sponded. The Ecusta Entertainers composed of the Girls’ Quintet and Violinist John Eversman drew much applause from the group of more than 100 with four numbers: “To Each His Own,” “The Anni versary Song,” “Zip-A-Dee-Doo Dah,” and the encore niunber. ‘Take Me Back to Renfrew Val ley.” Chief business transacted by the organization centered around the Pisgah and Nantahala Nation al forests. from the Personnel department, take it to the main office at Camp Sapphire before you start your day’s activities and then check back there at the end of the day so that proper records may be made of the number caught. This is important to Jim Gasque, well-known fishing expert from Asheville, who keeps careful check for us on the number and size caught. Fishing will start each day at 10:00 a. m. and will continue until 7:30 p. m. The Kid With The Willow Pole By George Wyckoff How many times have you fished a stream With a split bamboo that’s a perfect dream; With flies and leader and costly reel And caught no fish to fill your creel? And then some barefoot kid came by With a string of fish that took your eye, And he caught them all on a bacon rind And a willow pole and a rotten line! t.l/oeojui WITH OUR SPORTSMEN EVIDENCE This is one that didn’t i" away—although It almost ' It’s a pound bass, inches long, caught last sii®’ mer at Camp Sapphire on last day of the fishing by Mrs. Charles Norlander. B ^ line became tangled in her i*® and she had to pull the in by hand—but she did and the result of her effort one of the largest bass at the lake last season. GET OUT THAT ROD AND REEL From all indications, Tra] :nsyl‘ fot vania county fishermen are . a good season of fishing. some of you come back. handed after an unlucky trip, y® j probably want to make us j, that prediction. However, j the Camp Sapphire lake in ^ shape and with ample planting fish in the streams of the u and in the Forest, it is aPP^f.sii that there will be plenty of in the streams—and it will b® to you to coax them to hook. Davidson and Lower 3, Mills rivers will open jp Heavy planting has been mad® Cove Creek, Looking Glass and Avery Creek. Should catch on the main part of ^ son River fall below four ^ per man, plantings will be s' ed there immediately. Jim Gasque, author of the “Bass Fishing,” and probably best known fishing expert in tl)« em North Carolina, has close eye on developments ^ Camp Sapphire fishing .ff and feels that Ecusta anglers in for a good season there, ported elsewhere on this pag®’ - jt, season opens at our camp Ju*!® SHORT NOTES The Hobby and Sport ShoP'jo offering three attractive pr>^®*,jrs the Transylvania county catching the largest trout April 15 to July 31. The prize will be a South Bend^ ^ rod; second, a South Bend -*“3. matic reel; and the third; » jo- thon tapered nylon line. Th® cal store is owned and op®^®-t, by Lloyd Burhans and S. A- the latter an employee Power Department .... Cansler has added another fox to his season’s record, ^ a total of six for the winter • • '
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