The evening world. Newspaper, April 24, 1917, Page 11

us ~ BULGARS CLAIM SUCCESS. oben April 24 (via London).—A pe- riod ire on the Macedonian fromt tere the Vardar and Lake Doiran yesterday was followed by o British attack which was repulsed, says & War Office matement to-day. The text of the announcement reads: “AN Gay Monday our positions be- tween the Vardar and Lake Dotran were @ubjected to violent artillery fire which at times attained the intensity of drum. fire. In ihe gning British intantey Pi Ma but were sanguinarily ACKER MERRALL&CONDIT Est. COMPANY 1820 Two Economy Items Elm City Boneless Bacon 34c Ib Elm. City Hams 31c. Mild Cure 8 to 10 lbs, each Only limited quantity to each purchaser No ‘mail or: 0..D. orders filled: TURN YOUR IDLE BACK YARD INTO MONEY! AT LAST, THE #4; tak Efficiency Vegetable Garden Chart rr, Price, Complete, 75 Cents Prepaid. THE CLOCHE COMPANY, 131 Hudson St. New York C LiCH TING: FIXTURE SERVICE Wing pe Yate “i ax we ark he speci equip. ings, ely priced tures are at See for yourself. 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F, Rockwell, consulting agrioulturist, has been engaged to write a eeries of authoritative gardening articles, which are printed In Any especial gardening information be supplied through this THE EVENING WORLD, The Evening World’s Home Garden League “PLANT A PLOT” 11 EVENING WORLD'S Home Garden League has been founded to ald city and suburban agricultural preparedness by encouraging vegetable growing tn back yards and vacant lots, It’s slogan is To become a member you have only to put a picce of “question and answer” column every Tuesday in reply to your letters. Write also to The Evening World letters telling of the progress you are making in your garden—problems you have solved—special conditions you have encountered and turned to your advantage, Your erperience, it published, may help other gardeners, i ‘There have been several inquiries from Home Garden League members requesting detailed information on the planting of potatoes and onions Undoubtedly the special interest in these two crops is due to the record breaking high prices at which they have been selling during the last few months, as well as to the fact that they are “staples” on the tables of most families, I want to take this opportuntty of again cautioning those with Mmited garden space against the advisability of devoting all the room they have to one or both of these two crops. Potatoes cannot be grown as economically as many other vegetables in the small bome garden because of the amount of apace they occupy in proportion to yield. Onions, on the other hand, while yielding heavily in proportion to space, more diMcult to grow than most other garien vegetables, and require especially rich and finely Prepared soll, go they are not a “safe bet’ for the beginner. Unless you have plenty of room to grow potatoes, or have had somo experience in grow- ing onions, the chances are that you will find it much more profitable to uso your ground for growing other root crops, such as beets, carrots, turnips and rutabagas. Another de- cided advantage in favor of the latter crops 1s that they can be planted quite late—-in June or July— so that you have the chance to grow some summer vegetables on the same ground before it ts needed for these things, while potatoes and onions oc- cupy it most of the season, For those who feel they want to try potatoes and onions, however, the fol- ing directions for planting are given HOW TO PLANT POTATOES, ere hag been a lot written re- cently about how to eat your potatoes cannot Question and Answer Column Conducted by F. F. Rockwell, Consulting Agriculturist. be done evenly without a great deal of timo. It takes the onion seeds quite a while to come up; plant 2 fow radish seeds along with the onions, to mark the rowa quickly, 60 you can begin cultivating as soon as possible. G.8..,One Hundred and Thirty- sixth Street, New York—We have a vegetable plot of 400 square feet. Woe have used commercial fertilizers for several yea but no manure or humus. Have on hand 100 pounds Alphano| humus and twenty-five junds Garden fertilizer. Would it bo better to use this only in the fur- rows or spread over whole surface? For potatoes, would it be necessary to use, in addition to the above, wood ashes to supply potash; if so, bow much? I would spread broadcast over the surface and rake in before planting about eighty pounds of the humus and fifteen pounds of the fertilizer and keep the rest to use In rows and hills and for late crops. If the soil is Ught and has had no humus for several years it Would pay to get another 100-pound bag and to spread on and rake in, rather than to buy wood ashes, as there is probably plenty of potash left in the soll to du for this year's crops. If you hav. wood ashes on hand by all means use them, either broadcast or In the rows or hills; @ handful to each hill of po- tatoes mixed with the soil will be none too much. (Transplanting will be discussed in next Saturday's article). F.F.D.,Bronx—I have just re- celved a wagon load of fresh manure. Would like to know if it would be all and plant them too! 1 read some- thing the other day about one town where they were saving all their potato PARINGS to plant! It is true that you can get a potato plant to grow by cutting out merely the eye, But the vigor of the plant and the yield you may expect from it depend very directly on the size of the plece of potato cut out with it—both scte ntifie experiments and practical experience having prov that beyond a doubt. The little plant, when it starts, draws on the food stored up in the flesh of tuber, Therefore, the amaller the ce of potato planted with each eye he more important ét ig to have the soil well enriched With fertilizer that is {immediately available for plant uso, the more finely pulverized ét Id be, I would recommend the on of medium-sized potatoes » quarters, each to contain one jor moro eyes, rather than the use of ngle eyes cut out of large potatoes With little of the flesh of the potato h them In a garden the rows of potatoes le planted aa close together as et apart. The rows should be opened up four or five inches deep, und the seed pleces dropped about} It will help materi if small to spr the bot wit ne foot apar ally, espectall t fertilizer along row—say five feet of row the soll before planting the potatoes. When covering up the furrows with the ALi W. B. SUPPORT-U BELT For Golfing, Riding, Motoring and for All Field Athletics. For Men—$3.50 to $7.50 Rother a handful to each four or! and mix this with) |the hoe, tamp the soil down lightly along the whole row, so as not to lieave the ground too loose, and leave | the rod slightly ridged up--two inches or so, to mark the row, About ten days after planting, rake over whole surface, leaving it smooth This will destroy all the els just starting, and save a al of work with the hoe when little potato plants break through @ soil HOW TO PLANT ONIONS. } the | The soil for onions should be en- riched with an abundance of fertil- izer and manure or humus, " over and raked until ly pulverized and free jes or trash, The oni as close as twelve it It is cheaper to sets; but unless one ias Srown therm before, one can be | h more certain of having success with the sets. The seed ts sown quite thickly ut ten seeds to the inch or row, and should not be covered ver half an inch deep. By all means buy or borrow a seed drill if you ex pect to put in a “pateh" of any size. Hand planting !s very tedious, and 1456 Broadway at 42d Street. right to mix the manure in with the |™ soil or spread it over the surface? Also, if I have to get a permit to uso water on @ small garden. If the manure {s very “fresh,” that is, bas not @ chance to decay at all since it was made, {t will not ba of much use to your plants during the early part of the season. In that case, get some fine bone or a com- plete garden fertilizer and into the surface after your dug, before planting. Use five p or 80 to each 100 square fect of Tho manure should be spread evenly as possible, and dug UNL as thoroughly a Posaible E. WILLIAMS, Bronx. New York— I have just had & vacant plot of ground ploughed, but without any manure. I cannot get any well-rotted manure. Can I use sheep manure. and if so, how—dry or as liquid manure? How much would I need The plot is 150x35 feet. It is new ground, never used before, and ha only been an eyesore, overgrown with weeds, enrich it? This kind of a plot {9 not as ike to be deficient in humus as in plan phosphoric acid and ds have been growing on it, it should grov Sheep manure or “shred and dried animal manure, which can be bought of most seedsmen by What would you suggest to What, When and How to Plant 3. 16-PAGE ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF THE EVENING WORLD HOME GARDEN LEAGUE FREE TO EVENING WORLD | READERS FOR ' COUPON PRINTED BELOW. THIS COUPON ENTITLES To One Garden Handbook. | Clip out coupon and send by mail ita four eines and byo-cent way Garten, ‘York pA a Se the bag, should give good results. al hundred pounds of the former, or two hundred of the latter, would be none too much for @ first year ap- plication. ‘This, with fifty to one hun- | dred pounds of acid phosphate, which costs about @ @ pound, and two | or three bushels of unbleached wood | ashes, would put {t into good shape for gardening. I would suggest that you Ket this ground spaded and raked | As soon as possible, This will give the first crop of weed seeds a chance to sprout, ‘Then put on your manures | and fertilizers and rake them in thor- oughly; at the same time you will dastroy thousands of tiny weed seed- lings, some of them not yet above ground, BEFORE you begin to plant. Ground that has been allowed to “run to weeds” for several years is naturally pretty well seeded with them. NEW POST OFFICE FLAGS. ‘Three Unfurled Clerks at Park Row Branch, Three big American flags were un- furled in the newspaper department of the Second Division of the General ‘ost Office, at Broadway and Park Row, at 9 o'clock this morning. H. 1. Yetman was master of ceremonie employees Witnessed the o a he flags were unfurled by W < 8.M. Hull and G. Elaemul- | of the oldest clerks in tho nd atein, a member nt, Coast Artil- lory, NG. N. Y,, rendered ‘The Star Spangled Banner to the accompani- nient of the Letter Carriers’ Band. inllaaniae of the S Justice of t jyacancy cau wi i. F pa 30 | Ps i exp and Aefoated for election to the full’ tern | is {last November _ “ To Leave Sw James O'Malley will give up his poal- tion of Assistant District Attorney on w with Harris, Cor- hek. For tne nas had charge of vestigation of the murder of Bait and it is believed the prosecution the five men Indicted in that case be given to Asaistan’ thers, Samuel District signed yesterday, The Shop RUSS 362 Fifth Ave. Opp. Altman's This group cons tailor-made Suits ¢ Wear Serge, Burella mixtures. tional values. All Some braid bound. Individual IHIKS | 1 West 34th St. Opp. Waldorf Sale To-Morrow 225 New Tailor-Made Suits ists of splendidly of Gabardine, Men’s Cloth and mannish Excep- new Spring models, 00 Originally priced up to 42.50. 215 Smart Spring Coats’ Very smart models . Burella, Gabardine, etc. Beau- tifully tailored Va 24°” | of Serge, Spring designs. | Values up to 47.50. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, EPISCOPAL RESERVE FUND REACHES $7,500,000 TOTAL BOSTON, April 2%4.— The reserve fund of the Episcopal Church Fund, of which $5,000,000 was nought orig- inally, has passed $7,500,000, Bishop William Lawrence announced Inst nicht at @ @inner given him by the Epis- 1 Club. On March 1, when the pain to obtain the fund was cal | closed, $6,500,000 had been recetvod, and since that timo another million 1917. has been recetved. ‘The exact use to whioh the overflow placed is uncertain, because | rance Department of the State York must pasa upon the | proporition. In time, Bishop Lawrence sald, It would go to aged or disabled ad r to the widows and orphans of ymen. a Lighthouse Keeper, Who Lives, is Found Dei (Special to ‘The Evening World.) NEW LONDON, Conn. April 34.— Capt. Joseph Bmith, Keeper of the Buck Island Light, was found dead aboard his sloop here Inet night. 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