® < THE DALLAS POST — THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1964 Electric Heat IS Modern Pond) 7 iA Flameless electric home heating brings summer inside while it’s winter outside. Electric heat is clean, gentle, and free of drafts or hot blasts. No . FOR A GREENER MORE BEAUTIFUL Nationally / Locally America’s Only Automated Lawn Service SAVE TIME « MONEY » LABOR DON'T BE A LAWN DRUDGE] LAWN-A-MAT of Wilkes-Barre Edwardsville, Pa. o POWER AERATION ¢ FERTILIZATION © RE-SEEDING (1 Ib. per 1000 sq. ft.) o POWER ROLLING (for up to 4000 sq. ft. area. 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Gardening is not only a popular project, but it is also the source of income, beauty, better nutrition and property improvement, points out a 4-H garden bulletin published by the 4-H Service Committee. 2 Participation is not limited to farm youths. Anyone who has a plot of ground - no matter how small - can qualify. Age limits are from 10 to 21 in most 4-H Clubs. As a matter of fact, even lack of ground space is no handicap. Ama- teur horticulturists can learn to grow plants indoors. Terrariums are decorative as well as fun to make and care for, and the wide variety of green and blooming houseplants are excellent for in- door gardening. Club members also demonstrate various aspects of scientific garden- ing such as soil preparation, insect control, planting and cultivation, according to the garden bulletin. Artistic talents are developed in flower arrangement, another fav- orite demonstration. Raising flowers and vegetables for family use or for a roadside stand are not the only goals. Every effort is made to produce the best possible product for show and competition at county and state fairs where ribbons and special’ awards are won. Often a 4-H garden becomes a family affair because brothers and sisters work together and mother and dad consent to digging up the back yard or taking over a part of crop land. Sometimes a little finan- cial assistance is needed to buy fer- tilizer, tools, seeds and other gar- den supplies. Everyone learns more about nature and the science of growing things. While the local volunteer 4-H - Club leaders get the young garden- ers started and guide them through- out the year, another benefactor recognizes and awards thosedoing the best job. The Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- ing Company, Farm Equipment Division, for nearly two decades has channeled funds through the National 4-H Service Committee for awards to boys and girls in every state. In 1963, more than 214,0004-H gardeners from coast to coast grew vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants and shrubs in the manner pres- cribed by the Cooperative Exten- sion Service. Some 7,000 qualified for awards which included gold-fil- led medals of honor, trips to the National 4-H Club Congress at Chicago and eight $400 national scholarships. This year similar awards will be provided by Allis-Chalmers. Win- ners will be selected by the Exten- sion Service. gd J PAGE 12 Windmills Are Hard To Find Shown above is the picturesque windmill in Lehman owned by the Burton Major farm. It is still in water for use on the farm. operation and delivers quantities of Kites. and windmills, they spell spring, but both are getting hard to find. Children don’t seem to fly kites any more, and windmills have been replaced with submersible pumps or a hook-up to the city water system. But there’s a windmill out in Lehman that is still chugging away, delivering unlimited quantities of water so soft that a teaspoonful of soap powder foams out over the dishpan, and all without benefit of electricity. Not only that, it has been de- livering the goods to the Burton Major farm ever since 1902, and mostly without complaint. When it does complain, however, it does a thorough job. Parts for windmills cannot be bought at local hardware stores. There is a place down near Har- risburg that still caters to windmill New Machine By Lawn-a -mat A new machine developed by Lawn-a-mat Corporation, Union- dale, New York promises to do for lawns what the cotton gin did for cotton. The machine aerates, fertilizes, conditions, rolls, de-weeds and kills fungus all in one operation for an approximate cost of three cents a square foot of lawn. The company recommends that the lawn treat- ment be applied four times a year. Although the machine itself is not for sale, its franchise is held by Mr. Michael Kravitsky, Edwardsville, owner of the K. P. Aluminum Company. The new idea in lawn care is being presented to this area for the first time this year. It will remove the burdens of lawn care for many local residents who take pride in their lawns but do not wish to de- vote all their time to it. owners, but Harrisburg is a consid- erable step from Lehman. And windmills have a mean habit of conking out in sub-zero weather. Last July the Major windmill changed hands, along with the 97 acres of land which once pastured enough cows to strain even the capacity of the hardest working of windmills. The windmill now delivers water to the Simms and Dawe households, and the jack-pump no longer has to supplement its efforts in dry weather. It looks as if it would be in busi- ness for a long time. Nestled against a hill, with its wings revolving in the spring breeze, it makes a good conversa- tion piece for passing motorists, who wonder what it’s doing. There’s another windmill out in Beaumont, but since the last time some years ago when’ its meshing gears at the top of the tall tower looked as if they were a long ways up, and the greasebucket pretty heavy for the Paul Nultons to man- age, it has given up its job to an electric pump. The windmill has been turned out to pasture, its weathervane tailpiece snugly sanp- ped down out of the wind. The electric pump keeps the big reser- voir filled with water, Maybe there’s something about a windmill that has a softening ef- fect on water. While the rest of the community is complaining about (6% DIELDRIN) (2-4D & 5T) \ water which is so hard that it can ET TT \ stand alone, those wells that supply SUMMER FALL A the windmills yield water that is like LIGHT ROLL BESEED =rain. 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