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TREE PLANTING
TIME? No this is not the
time to plant a shade
tree in the yard. However,
don’t let the summer go by
without looking around the
house for places to plant
trees this winter.
Here's why site location
now is so important. You
want and need protection
most in the summer.
Right? Well, the sun hits
the house from different
directions in winter than it
does in summer. So if you
place the tree based on the
direction of the winter's
sun, It's going to be in the
wrong place when summer
comes
So now this summer is
the time to pick the place
where you will plant the
tree this winter. Don't just
pick it mark it. You may
even want to take a long
pole and use it for a sub
stltute tree. Take a look at
how the stick casts its
shadow on the house. This
should give you a rough
idea of how the tree will
protect various parts of the
house at different times
during the day.
Remember, don't plant
the tree now wait until
wintertime when it is
dormant. All you want to
do now is select and mark
♦he spot for it
MULCH FOR
VEGETABLES Time
spent applying mulch to
pepper, tomatoes, squash,
eggplant and other
vegetables will mean extra
Rodger C. Olson Ji f
Hearing Aid
Specialist
will be at PERRY HOSPITAL
the tirst Thursday of each month, from 9:00 j
2:00 Home calls by appointment.
Call Mis. Ivey at 987 3600 for appointments
toi hearing evaluations. No obligation.
for a SAFE and
SOUND CELEBRATION!!!!
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★ Complete camping facilities * Charcoal grills
★ Acres of parking ★ Family picnic tables
★ Swimming and sunbathing * White sand beach
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★ Bands will be performing in the pavilion and
under the trees both Sunday and Monday afternoons
★ ★ ★
Superstar BUCK OWENS and his Buckaroos will
appear in concert at Crystal Lake on JULY 18!!!
dividends at harvest time
A good mulch will prevent
loss of moisture from the
soil, suppress weed
growth, reduce fertilizer
leaching, and keep
vegetables up off the
ground Soil rots which can
be caused when vegetables
touch the ground can be
reduced when mulch is
applied under the plant.
Hay, straw, sawdust, grass
clippings, pine bark and
wood chips all make
suitable mulch material.
The mulch material should
be spread 3 to 4 inches deep
and 18 to 24 inches wide
under the plant.
TOMATOES TO STAKE
OR NOT TO STAKE The
advantages that tomato
growers receive from
staking tomatoes are
many and the additional
cost in materials and labor
results in a greater dollar
return at harvest time.
Some advantages that
staked or trellised
tomatoes have over non
staked are: More
marketable fruit har
vested per plant, sunscald
and fruit rots are less
severe, <ruits are more
easily seen at harvest, and
there is a more effective
penetration of spray and
dust materials.
MOLE TROUBLE
We've had a lot of calls
about moles. It seems just
about everybody in the
county has had trouble
with these critters in
lawns, flower beds, gar
dens, and fields.
The common or Eastern
mole is the most com
monly found here. He can
be identified by his long,
pointed snout; in
conspicuous eyes and
ears; short tail; rounded
front paws that turn out
ward and stout claws.
These features distinguish
him from his smaller
cousin, the shrew.
Moles live underground
and seldom venture out of
their burrows. When they
do come out, it's usually at
night. They are most ac
tive in the early morning
and late evening. Ridges of
earth pushed up by their
burrowing plainly mark
their presence
The number of tunnels is
no indication of the
number of moles you have
around your place. Just
one mole can construct a
maze of haphazard, criss
crossing runways.
Most of the tunneling is
made in a random search
for food, and some of the
runways are seldom used
again. It's important to
remember this when
trying to trap moles. The
more permanent or active
tunnels most often run
along fences, plant rows,
Countries Quickly
Purchase 70 Million
Bushels Os U.S. Grain
In the wake of new ex
port sales to the USSR the
last week in April and the
first week in May, export
sales of U.S. feed grains to
other destinations picked
up in the first half of May,
according to USDA's
General Sales Manager.
Major buyers were
Japan, the Netherlands,
West Germany and Italy.
New export sales of U.S.
feed grains to these
"other" destinations from
May 2 16 totalled over 70
miliion bushels, of which 85
percent was corn.
It was observed that the
market economics of
Western Europe and Japan
usually react quickly to
Soviet purchases in the
world market. Other
countries normally follow
suit a bit later.
Partly as a result of
these export sales, old crop
corn futures on the
Chicago Board of Trade
advanced 15 20 cents per
bushel from May 1 to May
borders, and other
protected places.
Moles may be found in
many different soil types,
but they seem to favor
moist, shady areas. These
animal pests feed almost
exclusively on insects,
earthworms, grubs, and
other insect larvae. For
this reason, they are
considered an in
sectivores not rodents.
Moles may be getting a
lot of cussing they don't
deserve. Damage to bulbs,
flowers and vegetables
while often blamed on
moles is usually caused by
mice The mice use the
mole runways, finding
them a ready-made source
of food and cover.
However, moles do
cause injury while digging
for food. Trapping is one of
the most satisfactory ways
to eliminate them. But the
little animals are very
suspicious of any foreign
objects in the runways,
and trapping isn't the
easiest thing in the world
to do.
Bob Carlton, our Ex
tension Wildlife Specialist
in Athens, has prepared a
new leaflet on mole
trapping and it is available
in our office.
27.
Through May 16, U S.
corn exports reached 1.1
billion bushels since Oc
tober 1. Outstanding sales
(including optional origin
sales likely to come from
the U S.) totalled about 400
million bushels. With 4Vj
months yet to go this
season, it appears that
USDA's current official
projection of 1.6 billion
bushels in corn exports will
be easily achieved.
Attention in Washington
focused on consultations
between U.S. and Soviet
officials on May 24 25
under the long term grain
trade agreement signed
last October. While the
agreement does not take
effect until October, the
1975-76 situation was
reviewed.
At first, the Soviet
delegation said they were
not planning to buy any
more 1975 crop corn. Later
in the meetings they in
dicated an interest in
additional small quan
tities. They were en
couraged to consider an
additional 500 thousand
tons, which could increase
their total 1975 76 U.S.
grain purchases to 17
million metric tons.
The Soviets were also
told that the U.S. expects
to have enough 1976 crop
wheat and corn to supply
more than 8 million metric
tons (about 310 million
bushels) provided for in
the agreement. Specific
quantities above this level
were not mentioned, since
the Soviets indicated it was
too early to determine
what their import needs
might be next year.
The April purchases by
the Soviets include 453
thousand metric tons (16.6
million bushels) of U.S.
wheat and 1,650 thousand
metric tons (65 million
bushels) of U.S. corn for
1976 77 delivery under the
agreement beginning in
October.
C'offrgr Copfifi
Deborah C. Costlow, Rt.
I, Houston Lake Rd.,
Perry, received a Bachelor
of Arts degree in English
from Northwestern
University in com
mencement exercises held
June 12.
Deborah is the daughter
of Mr and Mrs George M
Costlow of Perry. Miss
Costlow also received
departmental honors for a
senior thesis on violence in
the comic mode of farce.
In August she will begin
study at George
Washington Law School in
Washington, D.C.
Mr. and Mrs. George
Costlow, Sharon and David
attended the graduation
services in Evanston.
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HOUSTON COUNTY
By Peggy Polk
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JELLY MAKING As
our fresh Georgia fruits
begin to ripen, jelly
making season will soon be
here Since most of our
fruits and vegetables ripen
at about the same time,
preserving all of these
foods can be quite hectic.
If you are rushed, why
not extract the juice for
jelly-making and freeze it
or can it for making jelly at
a later date. Extract and
strain the juice as if you
were going to make the
jelly now. It may then be
canned or frozen and used
when needed. You can then
treat your family to freshly
made jelly in the winter
and save yourself time
during your busy canning
season.
COOK THEN TASTE
Have you heard that
women are the ones most
apt to get botulism food
poisoning? The reason is
that women do more
cooking. They open a can
of food, taste it and then
heat it.
FLOATING FRUIT-
Have you had the problem
of canned fruit floating to
the top of the jar, even
after it was tightly
packed? Try heating the
fruit in a heavier syrup
than the one to be used for
canning. This heavier
sugar concentration would
cause moisture to be
drawn from the fruit,
causing it to shrink
adequately prior to
processing. After heating,
pack fruit into jars. Add
water to the heavy syrup to
bring it to the correct
concentration for canning,
heat, and pour over fruit.
RED COLOR IN
CANNED OKRA- A red
dish color in canned okra is
not an indication of
spoilage, but rather is due
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to the variety of okra.
Okra, especially the red
spined varieties, contains
anthocyanins (a red color
pigment) which becomes
more pronounced after
heat processing. These
pigments are water soluble
and may be leached from
the vegetable.
HOME CANNED FOOD
SAFE IF Is the food you
can safe for your family to
eat? Only if propercanning
procedures are followed.
A boiling water bath (212
degrees F.) is used for
processing high acid food
such as fruits, tomatoes,
pickled products, and
jellied products other than
jelly. Jars should be
covered with boiling water
during the processing
time.
A steam pressure canner
at a temperature ot 240
degrees F. (10 no.
pressure) is needed for
processing low acid foods
such as vegetables, meat,
fish and poultry to ensure
that all spoilage organisms
are destroyed.
FLAT SOUR
VEGETABLES- Shelled
beans, peas, corn, pum
pkin, greens, and mature
snap beans are very
susceptible to a type of
spoilage known as flat
sour. There is no gas
present in the container
and no bulged seam, but
the product has a
disagreeable sour flavor
and unpleasant odor. The
liquid will frequently have
a cloudy appearance.
The thermophilic bac
teria which cause flat sour
develop best between 100
degrees and 130 degrees F.
For this reason, it is very
important to work
vegetables quickly before
and after processing. One
of the primary causes for
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL THURS., JULY 1, im,
flat-sour spoilage is slow
cooling after processing.
One of the primary causes
for flaf-sour spoilage is
slow cooling after
processing. Leaving
canned food In the
pressure canner
(especially overnight)
after the pressure has
dropped, leads to slow
cooling and could easily set
up the conditions for flat
sour spoilage. Inadequate
processing can also cause
flat-sour spoilage.
FLAT SOUR NO
Whelchel Tells How
Remedy For Fire
Ants: Chlordane
For those Houston
County residents afflicted
with the "Solenopsis
savissima", there is one at
least partially successful
remedy that they them
selves can try. That long
scientific word is the
moniker for the imported
fire ant, and the South
American alien now infests
133 million acres from
Florida to Texas.
That "remedy" is ap
plications of chlordane,
which is currently
available to homeowners
as a liquid, dust, or in
granules. It has been
approved for use by the
federal "watchdog" En
vironmental Protection
Agency "in view of the
public health problem
which may result from the
fire ant sting and bite."
A news release recently
received by the Home
Journal suggests 2 to 4
cups of granular chlordane
per mound, but County
Extension Chairman
Emmet Whelchel says
"that amount is a bit
much."
Instead, Whelchel
adivsis to apply about a
half cup granular chlor
dane per mound and to the
surrounding 3-foot area. If
using liquid chlordane,
follow the lable in
structions, with about four
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BOTULISM- When a true
flat sour condition occurs,
foods have an acid taste.
Flat sour occurs most
often when food is Im
properly cooled after
processing. Too slow
cooling causes bacteria,
usually lactobacilll to form
and power the pH. Foods
become acid due to the
lactic acid formation. So
when a true flat sour or a
true acid condition forms,
botulism toxin is not for
ward.
tablespoons per gallon of
water.
CAUTIONS are built into
use of the chemical, and
Whelchel says reading the
caution list is imperative.
Treated areas should be
re-examined after three
weeks and surviving
colonies retreated.
"This is about the only
thing available to
homeowners," says
Whelchel, "and can be
purchased several places
locally. They'll probably
quit making it soon too."
The large, hardcrusted
mounds which the ants use
as homes average 15 or
more inches in diameter
and 12 inches in height.
They are most common in
sandy soil, but are found in
nearly all types of
soil.