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Show Bowling Tournej 1 For Women ! Starts Sunday j The annual Women's Bov ' tournament will begin gJV Feb. 12, at 1 p.m. and will fc ' four bowling events. All J;' for the tournament must be . ed to secretary Klell Child " Gladys Judd by Friday, pel) . Tourney participation teams, will be limited to five. bers only and these must be"-five be"-five regular players, it Vas ." nounced. Team competition in tourney will be held Thim-Feb. Thim-Feb. 16. Sunday's schedule calls Singles bowling, Doubles, and All-Events. I It was pointed out that Thursday bowling will also c . on the regular schedule of the . I bowling league. 1.1 Automatic Watering Keeps Seed Box Soil Just Right ' , W"! LINER IS AN l3"P0Tl PULL wio THROUOHOLEi"3 IN CENTER OF FLAT. X f) U I f IfntireFLAtI FRAYED TOP OF WICK IS I fold AT i 3 WATERED j EMBEDDED IN THE 6Ql corners FROM BELOW . ' AS POT j ' : n IEMPTIES 1 jToWER END OF WICK IS - ( ' -i IMMERSED IN WATER IN PAN POT SHOULD STAND VziH. 1 OR OTHER CONTAINER 6EL0W ABOVE LEVEL OF SOIL - Two Methods of Watering Seed Box O. K.'d by Science. N Most failures of flower and vegetable vege-table seeds to grow are probably due to either a lack or an excess of moisture. This is true not only indoors but in the outdoor garden as well. Since watering indoors depends de-pends upon a human agency, failures fail-ures here are more frequent, and have been seriously studied by the scientists. If the soil gets too dry, the tiny seedlings with their shallow roots may perish in an hour. If kept too wet, fungi may develop, resulting in the fatal disease called "damping "damp-ing off." To keep the moisture "just right" was formerly a matter of experienced ex-perienced judgment, and required a constant watch on the seed flat, difficult for the amateur. But science has found two methods meth-ods which may be followed both better bet-ter than the old fashioned way of spraying on water from above, whenever in the judgment of the gardener watering was required. These methods are illustrated. On the left is the wick method; on the right, sub-irrigation. Many believe the best method of watering seed flats in the home is the wick method. This consists o using a burlap wick or one of glass, inserting one wick in the center of the fiat spreading it over about three inches in diameter on the bottom of the fiat inside and letting the wick hang in the water. The water then moves up to the soil by capillarity and keeps the flat at a constant uniform uni-form moisture content. In the subirrigation system a waterproof wa-terproof liner is used to hold water until it rises through the soil above. Both the wick and the flat-insert method of watering plants are satisfactory sat-isfactory out-of-doors, both are superior su-perior to the ordinary surface-watering method since they do not splash the seeds around and spread disease producing organisms. There is very little difference in the ease of using either of these methods. If a pan sufficiently large is used beneath the flat, in using the wick method, sufficient water for several days may be provided, and it will rise only as fast as needed, enabling ena-bling plants to be left unattended for a day or two, when necessary. With either method there is no danger of tiny seedlings being washed out of the soil when water is applied. |