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By BOB BOLT
“He that by the plough would
thrive,
Himsejf mu$t: either hold or
drive.”
—Ben Franklin.
During the war years we were
urged to plant Victory Gardens to
supply ourselves during food short
ages. And we did—to the amount
of over eight billion tons; Nation
al garden authorities, clubs, com
mittees, etc., are now urging plant
ing of home gardens for fun, good
fresh food, and for beauty. But
most important is to combat the
high prices of food.
Live at home this year, and help
bring down the inflated food costs!
It can be done! Long range fore
casts indicate another food-short
winter.
JUNE IS THE MONTH!
June is the gardening month.
The weather is usually good, and
succession planting of many vege
tables can be put in now for late
harvest.
It’s too late for garden peas and
lettuce in most places, but try a
few lettuce plants between the
sweet corn rows. They are shaded
and cool and will tend to head bet
ter there.
SIDE DRESSINGS HELPFUL
Side-dressings of complete ferti
lizer, nitrate of soda, or ammonium
sulphate are beneficial to most
crops at this time. The ammonium
sulphate is especially good for Irish
potatoes.
Weeding must be continuous
especially so after a few sum
mer showers.
Don’t neglect your spray and
dust schedule. With the bean beetle
active, dusting with rotenone
should be done twice weekly. The
copper dusts and sprays should be
applied for control of tomato late
blight. This should be done after
each shower for best results. If
the lower leaves of the tomato
plants become spotted with the
blight, remove the leaves and burn
Ijhem. Cabbage worms are easily
controlled with rotenone dust.
FLOWERS FOR LATE BLOOMS
Many types of annual flowers
can be sown now for late blooms.
It isn’t too late to plant glads, dah
lias, and other summer bulbs.
GOT A GARDEN QUESTION?
See the new book, “10,000 Gar
den Questions Answered,” edited by
F. F. Rockwell now at the Li
brary. It has a very comprehen
sive coverage of all phases of gar
dening and is completely indexed.
Unique Safety Show Will Be Given
At Camp Sapphire, Sunday, June 8
CAUTIONI-WATCH “1;"/
THOSE CAMPFIRES
They Can Quickly Change
Into Serious Forest
Fires
By ERNEST BURCH
We have now arrived at the sea
son of the year when we will be
able to indulge in the pleasures of
fishing, boating, swimming and pic
nicking, and the playing of the
many games provided for our en
joyment at our beautiful Camp
Sapphire.
Every visitor to our camp should
cooperate in preventing forest
fires, because not one of us would
knowingly start a fire that would
deprive us all of these pleasures.
Many picnic areas have been
provided at the camp, and it is in
these areas that we must build our
campfires. Please do not pick an
area that has not been given for
this purpose. If all the fires are
in use, good fellowship dictates
that we share our campfires with
others.
Gasoline or kerosene should
not be used to start a campfire,
dry twigs and paper will start it
almost as fast. Children should
never be allowed to play too close
to a fire as often a spark is thrown
from dry timber, and there is the
possibility that clothing may be
come ignited. Lighted cigarettes or
matches should not be tossed on
the ground at picnic places as dry
grass or brush will soon become
ignited.
Our company has gone to great
expense to make Camp Sapphire
the beautiful and up-to-date camp
that it is, but one spark could de
stroy it all. Therefore, it is up to
all of us to exercise the greatest
care during our activities at the
camp, for EVERYBODY LOSES
WHEN FORESTS BURN.
HOW TO PUT OUT YOUR
CAMPFIRE
(1) Stir coals while soaking
them with water.
(2) Turn small sticks and drench
both sides.
(3) Wet the ground thoroughly
Putting together that rare com
bination of entertainment and
getting across a valuable lesson.
Officer Pressley’s unique Safety
Traffic Show will be given at
Camp Sapphire, Sunday afternoon,
June 8th., at 3 o’clock for all
Ecusta people and their families.
Another show, for the general
public, will be given Saturday af
ternoon, June 7, at 3 o’clock in
the Brevard high school stadium.
In less than a year, this unique
traffic safety show has won the
applause of thousands of children
as well as adults. With his two
pigeons, Oscar and Pete, and his
four dogs. Lassie, Elmer, Susie,
and Lady, Officer Pressley not on
ly entertains his audiences, but
teaches them the fundamentals of
traffic safety. The six highly-
trained “stars” of the show have
been taught the tricks of vaude
ville stage and are a source of
constant amusement throughout
the performance.
The originator of the show, who
is a Charlotte traffic officer, has
taken his act to many cities in the
Southeast and the comment has
been most favorable. He has ap
peared in Knoxville, Miami, Palm
Beach, Charlotte, and many small
er cities. When F.B.I. Chief J.
Edgar Hoover saw the show, he
directed that the national F.B.I.
publication print a full-page story
about the act.
The Pressley show is; saving
lives and countless injuries of
school children walking, riding
bicycles, and on roller skates. And
it is creating a safety conscious
ness that will build a new genera
tion of safe drivers.
Parents can be assured of a
most enjoyable afternoon, too, for
the show is entertaining both for
adults and children.
May, i
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WITH
OUR SPORTSMEN
“Fish Farmer”
Ever think about the fell®* .j
spent months raising
trout you caught recently?
assuming that you have .
one.) His name is H. B. Sna ,
and he’s superintendent of
vidson River Trout Rearing
tion, located about 10
the plant up around the 320D'
altitude in the Forest. I
If you’ve never been
you’ve missed a treat. The ®..
afternoon it was our
visit there, talk with Mr.
0
bow and brook trout he
and see some of the
school” on that particular
By June 1, he expects t®
around 70,000.
The trout are not hatched
but come to the Rearing
from Walhalla, S. C., when
about IVz inches long.
than a year, they’re in the 1^ j
son River, a full 7
(That’s the legal size.)
a lot of hard work in I
those 5% inches. '
Feeding Is A JoV- j
Like any man with a big
Mr. Shaffer has his J,
troubles. When the fish are
they must be fed four or ^
times daily. At about 5 j
it’s cut to two or three tin'®
as they near the legal siz®>
a day is sufficient. One
their feed consists of meat
and pork spleens) and the ^
half consists of a mixture
ton seed meal, wheat ^
fish meal, dried skim niilfc
salt. When they are d\
fish eat about 10% of their ^
each day. J
The fish are weighed evw
weeks and food is allocated^
cording to weight, size, and ,j
temperature. The brook ^
grows faster and has a ^
even growth, Mr. Shaffer ^,(1
but the rainbow begins to ^
up at about ‘legal size” tim®' jji
“Fishing?”
“No, just drowning worms.”
A Prayer For Children
around the fire.
(4) Drown out every spark. - ^ ♦imn
Finally ask yourself the ques- ®''®"tually grows larger
tion, “Was my campfire out?” brook. j
Sixteen raceways, two yj#
pools, and four dirt pools jll
space for growth while 0“
dependable Davidson
plies the water. Added work .jf
when leaves fall, thus
Bingo Party Draws
350; More Than 100
Nice Prizes Given
Approximately 350 attended the
lively Bingo party at the cafeteria
Saturday night. May 10, and more
than 100 of those present proudly
carried home one of the many at
tractive prizes.
Prizes included grocery baskets,
sample picnic hams, packages of
bacon, sausage, bologna, butter,
canned goods, candy and cigarettes,
gift boxes of kitchenware, pyrex
cooking set, stainless steel carv
ing set, several bowls of goldfish,
and cooking utensils.
“If everyone that taktls the wheel would say a little prayer
And keep in mind those in the car depending on his care.
And make a vow and ple.dge himself to never take a chance.
The great crusade of safdty would suddenly advance.”
... So prays Lassie, leading lady of Officer Pressley’s Traffic
Safety Show, coming to CAMP SAPPHIRE on SUNDAY, JUNE
8 at 3 o’clock.
the drains. Floods also
in that they fill the racewa^P
silt and trash. . it*,
Mr. Shaffer has been
U.S. Wildlife Service fi'^®
coming here two years ago ^
Cortland, N. Y., where h® jH
connected with the nutrition »l
tion. He and his wife li'^®
attractive and comfortable
near the raceways. Recei* (|j(
assistant was assigned t®
station to help Mr. Shaff®’’;,
By June 1, over 20,000 tro j|ii>
go into the Davidson fi'Oi|'
well-operated station, so
luck isn’t so good, just
it would be without Mr. ®
and his “fish farm.” ^ >
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one that would bring
comment from millions '
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day.