Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1935, Page 6

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T Ky L dte GRAND PIANO in plain Colonial case, full-size key-board and 5 ft. in length, embodying y hinglon available. $275 During this manufacturer's eale, ' 1.9 L Offering also very fine used Pianos ir various makes recent- ly traded for modern Kimballs. Steinways, Mason-Hamlins, Webers, Chickerings, Whitneys, Harrisons, Knabes, Hardmans, and many more, all fully reconditioned. EASY PAYMENTS ENTIRELY FREE FROM FINANCE CO.S ZXCESSIVE CHARGES. o Now reduced LL WASHINGTON | BRANCH STORE . Worlds Largest Piano Makers NEW YORK T0 GET ANOTHER TUNNEL Extension of 6th Avenue Subway Will Cost $57,000,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 28.—Al- ready pitted with more holes than a Swiss cheese, water-bound Manhattan is going to have another subway— if anybody can find room for it. Subway building on this tight little island is a fine art of not bumping into an .area where somebody got there first. Some subways have more kinks than a roller coaster. The new bore, known as the Sixth avenue ex- tension of the city-owned independent system, must snake through solid rock to cross over the Queensboro subway at Forty-first street, under the shut- tle subway at Forty-second, over the Long Island Railroad tubes at Thirty- third and under the Brooklyn-Man- hattan Transit subway at Thirty- fourth. The only thing the engineers will the Catskill water tunnel, below the surface. run below 60 feet. Tunnels Lost or Mislaid. Manhattin has so many miles of 220 feet | one of them gets lost or mislaid. The citizenry virtually had forgotten about |a tunnel between Thirty-fourth and | Forty-second street, built by some- body for something a century ago, {until it came to light in a court suit the other day. | Then there is the story of some men | who started digging into the ground over in Weehawken, N. J., last Fall and were forgotten about—at least, by the general public—until months | later, when they bobbed up on this side of the Hudson River looking like not have to avoid a collision. with is | Subways seldom | THE SUNDAY. ‘Farming Without Dirt Cellar Agriculture, Using No Soil, Proves a Success. subterranean tunnels that occasionally | Michael Thies and Miss Pebble |they had spent a rainy night in a | shell hole. | That was the new midtown tunnel from New Jersey, the nineteenth rail and vehicular tunnel linking Man- hattan with New Jersey, Long Island and Westchester County under the Hudson, East and Harlem Rivers. Now talk has been started for an- other tunnel, between Manhattan and Queens, under the East River, for au- ‘wmoblles. | Commuters Took Ferries. New Yorkers and the nearby com- muting population have not always taken tunnel riding so casually. Some 25 years ago, when the Long Island Railroad tubes were shoved under the East River, not a few commuters stubbornly continued riding the ferry boats because they thought it was safer. For those statistically minded, the new subway extension will cost $57,- 000,000, for 2; miles. The Independ ent Subway System, one of three serv- ing New York City, alone carries 665.000 passenger daily, and most of them are straphangers at the rush hours. All rail carriers in the city— | subway, elevated and surface cars— last year carried two billion and a half passengers, at 5 cents a ride. 'FARMERS CHEERED ! BY WHEAT oumox’ jLate Rains Helpful in Five States | and Other Factors Indicate - | Big Season. | By the Associated Press | TOPEKA, Kans, September 28— }The wheat belt farmer, who never lost faith despite dust storms and drought, | { was planting his new crop today— | | hopeful that next year's harvest will | rival the bumper crop of 1931. | | Agricultural observers said late rains | | have put the soil in excellent condition |’1n the Winter wheat regions of Kan- | km' Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico | and Texas. l “The new wheat crop faces the best | | season in three years, with planting | | conditions more nearly normal than | | those of the past two years,” said J. C. Mohler, secretary of the Kansas Board f Agriculture. | “Many counties now have a good | supply of subsoil moisture, something ‘that has been lacking recently. Re- | cent snows will benefit the crop by | adding moisture that will not run off.” The bright picture was in contrast with a darker one painted recently by | E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas | | Grain Dealers’ Association. He | warned the country would be threat- | ened with a wheat famine if the wheat | belt is struck by another damaging | | drought. |V. F. W. THROWS OPEN ARMISTICE DAY BALL Invites Members of All Local | War Organizations to Attend Celebration. Veterans of local war organizations have been invited to attend the an- nual Armistice day bail of the Veter- | | ans of Foreign Wars at the Willard | Hotel. Plans are under way to make this year's ball the mast colorful of the | annual Armistice day enterfainments | sponsored by the District Chapter of |the V. F. W, National Comdr. James E. Van | Zandt and his staff are expected to attend. Washington's Congressional Medal of Honor holders, the Ameri- can Legion, Disabled American War | Veterans, Spanish - American War | Veterans and the Grand Army of the | Republic are included among those | sent invitations. Department com- manders will be honor guests. Edward | K. Inman is head of the District’s V. S APPEAL FOR GIFTS :Magnzineu and Games Needed for St. Elizabeth Patients. An appeal for magazines, cards, checkers and similar games for pa- tients at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital has been made to the District Chapter, | American Red Cross, it was announced | yesterday. Score pads and pencils | also are needed. | Persons wishing to contribute such articles are asked to send them to | St. Elizabeth’s Hospital or the District ‘Red Cross Chapter House, 1730 E | street. [ Mission Begins Today. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. OXON HILL, Md., September 28.— A week’s mission, to be conducted by Rev. Walter Archbold, rector of Bgden and Aquasco, will be held in St. | Barnabas Church, Oxon Hill, begin- ning Sunday at 8 p.m. - Services will [ be held atly at 8 a.m. and 8 pm. LY | BY RANDOLPH ROBERTS. HAVE you a little farm in your cellar? Most likely not. But maybe you soon will have, for | certain learned scientists at the Department of Agriculture are willing to admit “off the record” that the time is not distant when Mr. and Mrs. Average American can grow their own year-round supply of greenstuffs | in their basement or kitchen in a cabi- | net somewhat resembling an icebox. In most instances it all can be done without the help of a single shovelful |of sofl. The modern breed of “chem- istry farmer,” mixing together weird | combinations of mineral solutions in his laboratory. can get along very nice- | ly without dirt, thank you. Among the crops grown in this revolutionary fash- ion are corn, barley, wheat, oats, pota- | toes and cotton. | If all this sounds fantastic and even absurd, then take note of the numerous STAR, WASHINGTON, | Western white oats at the Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm at Beltsville, Md. Thies, a specialist in cellar farming, is exploring the possibilities of a development regarded as vastly significant in the home production of vegetables on a year- TEERLA - Martin harvest a six-day-old crop of around basis, —Star Staff Photo. revolutionary method not only are | able to produce five times their normal | volume, but can grow crops which | keep hogs and cattle in better con- | dition than outdoor fodder. | Three agencles in the United States are now conducting “cellar farming” tests. One of Spangenburg’s cabinets is being tried out daily on a dairy farm near Summit, N. J. Research | specialists on this farm say their crops | grow with almost miraculous speed. ‘Within a few hours a tray of seed corn starts to sprout and in 10 days is & foot high. Westerner Experimenting. Out on the West Coast W. P. Gericke, plant physiologist with the University of California, has been ex- | | perimenting *with cellar farming for | some months. While he is not quite | ready to make an official announce- ment as to his findings, Dr. Gericke D. C. has already achieved signal success in growing potatoes in his basement. His method differs somewhat from the Spangenburg system. Instead of | utilizing a cabinet, Gericke simply | places the seed pieces in a layer of peat which is supported on a screen 50 that the roots grow down into a BRAKES RELINED 4 Wheels Complete FREE ADJUSTMENTS FORD, 28 to ’35 or CHEVROLET (’30 to °32) Other Cars Proportionately Low novel experiments in the new science of “controlled egriculture” that have been conducted quietly and without ballyhoo within the past few months in four widely separated countries of the world—Germany, England, Denmark and the United States. Crops Within Few Weeks. Controlled agriculture requires the use of no land at all, the tests proved | conclusively, and yet the way is paved for fresh crops every few weeks all the | year round. Seeds or plants simply | are placed in chemically treated water‘ in metal trays of ovenlike cabinets. No artificial heating is required in most instances, since the plants supply | sufficient warmth for their own needs. | Nor is “cellar farming” arduous. A | short time each day is required to sup- ply water to the trays in which have been placed a few ounces of chemical food, there being a different kind of chemical food for each kind of crop. | Spectacular tests recently completed | in England were made on a large farm. Crops of barley and maize were | grown and harvested every 10 days. The originator of “soil-less farming” is the famous German scientist, Dr. Paul Spangenburg. First he analyzed | in his laboratory a particularly fertile | soil. Next he copied its nutrient con- | tent in a chemical solution. Where- | upon he announced to the world of | science that seeds germinated by his 7 \“ W’”Mmm Beautiful Fast Colors Greys Greens Browns Let Us Give You an Estimate—No Charge Enterprise Roofing Co. 2125 Rhode Island Ave. N.E. Potomac 0200 General Offices, 119 Light St., Baltimore chemical solution whose exact ®om- position is known only to the experi- menter himself. ‘Washington scientists who work with with the Department of Agriculture insist with one accord that thus far they have conducted no studies.of the Spangenburg method. However, it is'common gossip that one of the best-known agricultural journals in America is conferring with depart- ment officials with a view toward publishing a comprehensive article on the subject. But don’t imagine the department scientists aren’t doing any cellar farm- ing. Out at the Beltsyille Experiment farm every day in the year specialists in cattle fodder are growing, in the basement of the dairy section, a num- ber of trays of oats sprouted by o chemical process that requires the use of no soil. whatever. The oats are fed to about a dozen adult bulls that are never pastured. The ani- mals get silage, hay and grain in addition to the artificially sprouted oats. Method Is Explained. Venerable Michael Thies, probably the best cellar farmer in Washington, who personally grows most of the Beltsville sprouted ocats, explains his procedure like this: “It has been found that the oats Scranton LACE Curtains Pairs and Panels $‘I 19 New as the dawn of October! All are made of excellent quality mesh that will give long service. A wealth of attractive patterns for your selection. 2% vards long. Made with ready-to-hang top.— Third Floor. SEPTEMBER 29, 1935—PART ONE. are most effective, when germinated until the sprouts extend through the grains from one-fourth to one-half inch, and a mass of white roots is formed. Cattle eat roots germinated to this stage more readily than when the sprouts are longer. Quantities of sprouted oats equivalent to 2% to 5 pounds of dry oats have been fed daily to our bulls during the feeding period. Soak for 24 Hours. “In sprouting oats it has been found advantageous to place the desired amount of dry oats in a sack and soak for 24 hours in a tub or barrel of water, to which a’ small amount of formalin (1 ounce of formalin to 50 gallons of water) has been added. After the sack of oats is removed from the water it is placed on the floor for 24 hours during warm weather and for 48 hours during cold weather. Then the oats are spread in the pans or trays. It requires about three days to produce sprouts one-fourth to one- half inch long. During the sprouting period the oats must be kept moist, care being taken to prevent too much moisture in one place and drying in another. The oats seem to sprout more rapidly and evenly when kept at a temperature of 75 to 80 degrees F. They may be fed as soon as the de- sired: growth is obtained.” MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Plans for the annual membership drive of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. | C. 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