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THE ECHO
FEBRUARY, ^
All-Out Victory Garden Program Urgej
EVERY ECUSTAN
IS EXPECTED TO
HAVEAGAKDEN
Ecusta Garden Area U Of
fered Again. Suggestions
Are Offered
This Echo item is about 1944
Victory gardens.
It is addressed to all Ecusta gar
deners.
Some of us will plant in the
Ecusta garden site. Some of us will
plant in our home sites. Some of
us will plant in the many Tran
sylvania county field sites. All of
us must plant somewhere.
The success of Ecusta 1943 Vic
tory gardens was recognized in the
top award of merit granted by the
National Victory Garden Institute.
Many an Ecusta home has had
fresh and canned vegetables be
cause of the 1943 gardens and in
spite of ration stamps and empty
grocery shelves. Let’s repeat the
winning of the award this year,
let’s keep our tables supplied from
our gardens and let’s foretake steps
to see that we do not suffer from
any possible 1944 increased reduc
tion of grocery shelf supplies of
canned vegetables and fruits.
We must prepare our Victory
garden program with increased at
tention to the important details
Our attention must begin now.
Didn’t you find that one or an
other of your neighbor gardeners
had varied grades of success be
cause of the way the ground was
prepared? Didn’t you find that
there was a variation in yield ac
cording to whether you planted
early enough or too late? Didn’t
you find that onions, carrots, peas
and cabbage need to go in early?
Don’t our many Transylvania coun
ty farmers use lime and fertilizer
to advantage? Aren’t they plowing
and working their land now, to
start the change of the stubble to
humus and the clods to a mellow
texture?
The Echo is informed that an
Ecusta garden area is offered for
1944 plantings. Proper regulations
will apply in its use this year. For
example, applicants for garden
plots will be furnished land with
the understanding that they can
hold them through the season only
if they, tend them diligently. If
the land loses the gardener’s care
the gardener loses his garden. A
neglected garden is a loss not only
to the planter. It is also a source
of trouble to the surrounding gar
dens. It breeds weed seed, insects
and diseases that jeopardize the
success of the neighboring consci
entious Victory gardeners.
Another understanding is that
the gardener must be equal to the
area that he asks for. A part of
an acre farmed dutifully will re
turn more crop and all round satis
faction than an entire acre given
a lick and a promise. Let’s get on
to our Victory garden lands plenty
of peas, beans, cabbage, potatoes,
tomatoes, table corn, cucumbers,
peppers, root crops, etc.
A mutual program of weed con
trol is of extreme importance. The
Ecusta ditches have been cleaned,
the ditch banks will be mowed to
keep down weeds, roadways will
be kept open and weeds out of
them, bridges are in shape and the
land will be plowed. It will not be
reworked for individual needs. The
individual gardener has that duty
Ecusta Wins Plaque For Garden Program
Goal For 1944 Is
22 Million Victory
Gardens In Coun^
J
Here is the handsome plaque that was awarded to the Ecusta
Paper corporation by the, National Victory Garden Institute for
the company’s outstanding Victory Garden program in 1943. Plans
for the ’44 program are now being made.
to his garden and to himself. In
every clear and definite way the
Echo endeavors to emphasize the
need for an unrelenting effort by
every 1944 Victory gardener to
fight weeds and raise a good gar
den. Many a 1943 garden of an
Ecusta employee was worked duti
fully with hoe, with a cultivator
and with a sweep—and at the right
time—and the 1944 garden on that
site will be that much less weedy.
A weed is a plant in the wrong
place. A weed is in the even more
wrong place if you let it be in
your 1944 garden. Keep your gar
den worked forever against weeds
before planting, as soon as plant
ed, as soon as the planted crop is
up, as soon as it can be hoed, right
on through the season, and into the
early light frosts of the fall.
So, pledge yourself a 1944 Vic
tory garden, prepare your home
garden spot or apply for an Ecusta
garden site, collect seed, be on the
lookout for any promising tomato
plants that have proven improved
resistance to wilt, bait your land
for moles and rats, and consult the
county agent for his assistance in
furnishing aid in having your soil
analyzed—perhaps it needs some
lime and the right kind of com
mercial fertilizer.
Ecusta people have a pledge. It
is in four lines. It is with regard
to doing things. In respect to plant
ing a 1944 Victory garden, it reads
unchanged:
Certainly!
It can be done
It will be done
It must be done
Victory gardeners, there’s your
pledge!
“Name and address, please,”
barked the clerk to the dusky
draftee.
“What’s zat?”
“Your name and address.”
“Seems lak yo’ ought to know—
yo’ all sent fo’ me.”
TT Building News
Ric and Punchy, in answer to
your requests, here we are again—
you lucky people.
We’re wondering, still wondering
if Super is going to “middle aisle”
it before Marie. (Confidentially, we
think so!)
And why has Edith suddenly had
a liking for Pennsylvania Polka?
Peace! Everything is certainly
iuiet since Gus left for the navy and
took his bells with him. Paul, you’ll
have to do things if you take Gus’s
place!
It must be nice to get orchids
roses and a fur coat for a birthday
Where did you find that man, Mrs
Kolbasa? Are there any more like
him?
Ray Hooper is the proud father of
a baby girl. Congratulations, Papa
Ray! It’s a pity we girls don’t
smoke cigars, but the chewing gum
was greatly appreciated. By the
way, have you ever noticed a cer
tain Ph. D. smoke a cigarette?
Did we hear something about
Ecusta starting a debaters’ league?
The girls in the analytical depart
ment have the enthusiasm, but a
little research on those subjects
would help.
All in all, we are proud of our
bowling team. With a few more
weeks of practice, we might even
have Walter Straus worried.
Mary Carolyn, that was a mighty
cute soldier that had a furlough
last week. Did we see you going
down Greenville way?
The word “drooling” is thread
bare. How about a new expression
“B” shift?
Among those vacationing recently
were Eleanor, Dot J. and Lewis
From all reports, each had a fine
I time.
There will be another gold star
in the Ecusta service flag for Ted
Bryan, former Chemical Laboratory
helper.
Twenty million families |
Victory Gardens in 1943. Thc^
produced amounted to a staff
ing total. One estimate says,
summer’s yield was 7,940,000 ^
worth a billion dollars; and ^
4,740,000 came from farm
ens.
Encouraged by the splendid
sponse in 1943, the U. S.
ment of Agriculture has ^
goal of 22 million garden*
1944. Armed forces will
large amounts of food, ^
points will probably be sp”
thinner.
Seed and fertilizer prospec^^
rather better than for 1943 r
ens. Despite a wet spring ^
dry summer in many of the
ing areas, seedsmen increase® j_
production of vegetable see^
general during the past
and the quality is unusually
Many varieties of vegetable^
short or entirely missing. OPj
short side are beets, cucUiHj
eggplant, lettuce, musks^^
okra, peppers, turnips and
matoes. Cabbage seed is the
seriously short of any.
Labor is the seedman’s
problem, so that service i»^
orders will be slower. Tb®
gardener will order early
uary, because the seed rush ®
before February 1. ^
Five new roses make
1944 list of All-American y
tions. Three of the five
yellow, one is coral pinfc
a reddish-apricot color bleU^',
names of the yellow one? J
Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek”,
Thomas”, and “Mme. Curi®’’
coral pink one is “Kathef^
Marshall;” “Fred Edmunds” ^
reddish-apricot one.
Cafeteria Chatt^^
Since we have not
contribution to the Echo f
fore Christmas, we wish f
this opportunity to thafl^, j
Straus for our Christmas i
extra money came in very
during the holidays. ^
Ethel’s smile is broad
Yes, her spirits are up bec* f
mail from Italy. You ha'^
blessings, Ethel. A
Divalo is the happiest y
all this world these days*
home and boy! he looks j
of us. J
We are sorry to report ^
ill at home, but Sylvia
in for her well.
Virginia joined her
Knoxville, Tenn. She ^
liking the place fine but
Ecusta and the “gang.”
Bessie visited her folks
the past week-end. She
visited her sister, Alma, 1
band was killed in actioJi i
December 8th. We exte^
sympathy, Bessie. ^ (1
We are glad to have
man back with us. He
the navy but on being
discharged came right
Hazel and Paul, Divola
report a: very pleasant ^ J
gallivantin’ around all
Carolinas.
Husband: “I miss the
dor since it’s gone.”
Wife: “You missed it
that’s why it’s gone/'