SECTION TWO—!
Huge Sum Spent For
Remodeling Homes
Repairs and Mainten
ance Total BV2 Billion
Dollars In 1951
In spite of the fact that a tremen
dous number of new homes have been
built throughout this nation during
the past decade, the vast majority of
Americans still live in what may be
called “old houses”, structures built
as long as thirty to fifty years ago.
Bringing these homes up to full
value as measured by modern stand
ards through remodeling has already
become one of the major activities of
the nation’s building industry and is
expected to increase.
Remodeling, ineluding maintenance
and repairs, ran up a total of $8,500,-
000,000 in 1951. One building material
manufacturer is reported to have sold
one-half of his total product for use
in remodeling in 1950-51, and in 1952
this total was almost two-thirds of his
output with present indications that
1953 will be as good or better.
Wonders have been accomplished
in remodeling exteriors of old houses
to conform with current tastes in ar
chitectural style but even greater
wonders have been effected by inter
ior remodeling. Such rooms as kitch
ens and bathrooms are the places
most likely to be “dated," because
great strides have been made in recent
years in streamlining appliances and
plumbing fixtures, adding color to
them and developing entirely new and
varied materials for completely chang
ing the appearance of rooms through
refinishing wall and ceiling surfaces.
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o’clock at the home of Mrs. Jesse Har
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GARDEN TIME ROBERT SCHMIDT N.C.STATE COLLEGE
When we have completed the gar
den planting for the season we usually
have a quantity of seed left over. Will
■ they be any good next spring or
l should they be discarded now? The
; longevity, or length-of-life of seeds
depends on two main factors: the kind
s of seed and the conditions under which
t the seed are stored.
Under the hot, humid conditions in
1 the South, seeds do not retain their vi
- tality as long as they do in cooler cli
■ mates. Different kinds of seeds vary
f greatly in their longevity. For ex
! ample, onion, sweet com and parsnip
seeds retain their vitality for only one
s to two years, beans and peas for two
to three years, cabbage, collards, kale,
[ turnips and mustard for four to five
[ years, okra, parsley and salsify about
i two years, cucumbers, melons, squash'
! and tomatoes about five years ( all of
i these under favorable storage condi
, tions which means a cool temperature
and relatively low humidity).
I The difficulty in determining if
i seeds are likely to be good next spring
■ is that we don’t know how long the
• seed merchant has had the seeds be
■ fore he sold them to us. In many in
• stances I have found bean seed to be
; good only for the year that I pur
! chased them. That might mean that
; the seedsman has had the seed for at
[ least one year before he sold them,
i If you do keep seed over until the
1 next year, you should have a germi
nation test made before you plant
them.
If you are saving any of your own
seed this year from your garden, dry
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Interior fabrics, color-keyed to
Ford’s smart outside colors, would
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“Beet hey” when yea drivel Ford’s sus
pended pedals operate more easily
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“Beet hay" at the in pumps! When you
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them thoroughly and then keep them
as cool as possible during the hot
weather. In saving vegetable seed it
is very important that the plant itself
be used as the unit of measure in se
lecting and not the individual pod or
fruit. In other words, save seed only
from the best plants having the most
uniform and highest quality crop. For
example, it is a common practice to
save the seed from the largest water
melon in the patch. But perhaps that
melon was the only one on the vine.
It would have been better to find a
vine with three or four good sized
melons and save seed from one of
those.
Seed should not be saved from hy
brid tomatoes, cucumbers or com be
cause these are first generation cross
es and will not come true to the seed
that you save.
Are you getting tired of running
the cultivator and wielding the hoe
in your garden in a losing battle with
weeds and grass? Why not use a
mulch ? It is surprising how few gar
deners make use of mulches as an aid
in the conservation of-moisture and,
the control of weeds. A mulch may
be any material such as hay, straw,
strawy manure, leaves, leaf mold,
peat, sawdust, pine straw, or paper
which can be put down on the ground
around the plants for the purpose of
conserving moisture during the hot,
dry summer weather. At the same
time it will keep down most of the
weeds. I recently read of one garden
er who collected all the cardboard box
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"WORTH MORE” IS THE ANSWER ... IT COSTS SO LITTLE TO BUY
. . . SO LITTLE TO RUN AND HAS SUCH HIGH RESALE VALUE!
The best buy in an antomobile usually means the
amount of pleasure and satisfaction the owner gets
from his original investment, plus low day-to-day
running costs, plus the amount of value he recovers
when he sells his car.
What is it that makes Ford your best buy? Is it
the fine styling and craftsmanship of its Crestmark
Body ... or its new “ride” with curve-hugging and
bump-leveling qualities never before known in
low-priced cars? Or is it. Ford’s famous V-8 or
“Bast hay” ia ti(taa powtrl Only Ford in its field offers you a
choice of V-8 or Six. Ford has built more V-B’s—over
13,000,000 —than all other makers combined. And Ford’s
Six—the most modem in the industry—with Overdrive,
won the Mobilgas Economy Run Grand Sweepstakes!
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es he could get at the store, flattened
them out, and put them on the ground
around his plants as a mulch—and
the results were excellent.
Many vegetables, flowers, small
fruits and .shrubs are good suM|hrj|
for mulching. Tomatoes,
eggplants and cucumbers may be
mulched with straw, leaves or paper.
Azaleas, camellias and blueberries
which desire an acid soil may be
mulched with sawdust, leaf mold or
peat. Red raspberries, dewberries and
grapes may be mulched with straw or
strawy manure.
In all cases the mulch should be ap
plied after the soil has been well
moistened by rain or irrigation. If
fertilizer as necessary it also should
be applied before the mulch is laid
down.
You will find that ita small gar
dens a mulch will help solve many of
your cultural problems.
August is the month to plant many
of our cool season crops for the fall
garden. In the extreme eastern por
tion of the state even such crops as
Irish potatoes and tomatoes (plants)
may still be planted for a late fall
crop with a fair chance of having
something to eat. In other sections of
the state it would be too late for them.
Turnips, rutabagas, mustard, let
tuce, tendergreen; broccoli, - cabbage,
Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, snap
beans, beets, carrots, kohlrabi, col
lards, peas, onions, shallots, spinach,
radishes .and kale are some of the
crops that may be planted in August
with safety. A number of this list
may be planted as late as Septem
ber. Os course the key to success is
sufficient moisture and fertility to
bring about rapid growth. That,
along with proper control of insects,
will give you quality which is as nec
essary for the home garden as for
the commercial grower.
I would like to especially urge you
to try kohlrabi. The edible portion of
kohlrabi is the swollen stem which
forms just above the ground and re
semlies a turnip in shape and taste.
However, it is much milder thah turn
ip in flavor and of higher quality, if
grown rapidly.
Another good fall crop is Chinese
cabbage. This is not a true cabbage
but ipther a mustard although if
forms a bead. The variety “Wong
Bok” forms a short compact head
■while the “Chihilx” variety forma a
tall slender head. They may be used
in raw salads or may be cooked.
Head lettuce does not usually head
up well in the fall but may be grown
for its leaves, or the regular leaf let
tuce should give good results. A good
variety is the new one, “Salad Bowl.”
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derstanding and virtue we can equally
confide, and whose opinion we can
value at once for its justness and
honesty. —Robert Hall-
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car handles with Fordomatic Drive, or Ford’s
Master-Guide power steering! Perhaps it’s Ford’s
suspended pedals, or Center-Fill Fueling or Full-
Circle Visibility!
Actually, it’s not just any one or two of these
fine things that make Ford your hest buy. It’s all of
Ford’s “Worth More” features combined . . .
features which make Ford worth more when you
buy it . . . and worth more whom you sell it!
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on all V-8 models) supplies hydraulic "muscles”—auto
matically whenever you need them—to do the work of
steering for you. All you do is guide the car. Makes all
driving easier, and safer. And parking’s so easy!
If we acknowledge God in all our
ways, He has promised safely to di
rect our steps, and in our experience
; we shall find the promise fulfilled.
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