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c- Tin- advertisement appears in. /-Vfu/.ir //.'in.- and I he [hismess c* Fornnuo Late Fall U`ue. 1955 Edited tv C. fee M*flmter9 mmiimmml mmthmritm m hmrfiemitme* it's time to put your ^ cW^-e-!'j?fisiol v )I nl By R. M. Carleton Your yard and garden should be "put to bed" for the winter to help it do a better job next year. First to need attention is usually your vegetable garden. Pull up the old plants at once and put on the compost heap. They will soon return to humus and loam. Now is also the time to raise low spots so water won't stand. Remove the top 12" of soil and throw it to one side. Now fill the hole you've dug with a layer of leaves a foot or more thick, or with old plants from the vegetable garden. Throw the earth back over this fill. By spring, the vegetable matter will have rotted, and the fill settled. It should be three or four inches higher than it was. Tops of peonies and irises, as well as most of the perennials, can be cut off and dumped on the compost heap, or used to fill low spots in the vegetable garden. If peonies have been losing their buds before they can bloom m spring, now is the time to correct this diffi culty. As soon as the stalks have been cut off, spray the ground over the clump with a strong solution of Bordeaux mixture. This kills the fungm that causes the browning of the buds. Don't use a mulch over peonies: the fungus thrives in the mulch. Most perennials will do better with a mulch, however. Don't apply mulching materials until the ground freezes. Otherwise, field mice (who love the air> protected shelter) will move in and set up housekeeping. Since they dine all winter on perennials near their runs, they can do tremendous damage by spring. If the ground is truzen, they won't cause trouble. The l.iwn should be mowed once before the final winter treeze-up. If allowed to go into winter with long and matted grass, disease will probablv kill out large areas of turf. Snow mould, a fungus disease that works under snow, is .lw,i\s worse where the grass is long and nutted. If you have had trouble with snow mould, jpplx a spray of 6 oz. of Tersan to 1,000 square feet, to kill the fungus. Your garden toois will need attention. First, get rid of dirt on hoes, rakes and spades by wire brushing or soaking. Sharpen any dull edges with a file. Paint handles a distinctive color so the> can be recognized at a distance. The last outdoor task of the year is seed sowing. In soil prepared earlier, you may sow Larkspur, Bachelor Buttons. Pansies, Violas. Delphinium, small-flowered Petunias, Pop pies and Pinks. These will lay dormant until spring, and start to grow early as soon as the weather warms up a bit. Long before >ou could dig in spring, seedlings of these an nuals and perennials will be growing well. NEW WALLS NEW DECORAl dIL'im. (kt. T"f- r ototeoL PANEL SHEETROCK T M ften U S P1. Off fckc u. lOailtixiwL. It's building magic! Just apply adhesive to back of panels, press them to old walls when remodeling, or to a base layer of regular sheetrock wallboard in new construction. No joints to conceal, no nails to treat. Prestochange-o: beautiful new, completely decorated walls of Striated Panel sheetrock in a neutral tone that harmonizes with any decorating scheme. Also available in Knotty Pine finish; or Plain, which can be decorated as you wish. See your building material dealer, or write 300 W. Adams St., Chicago 6. UNITED STATES GYPSUM The Greatest Name in Building GYPSUM BOARD