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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Jerri Lynn Nace was hon
ored with dessert and a
miscellaneous bridal
shower at The Swanson on
Carroll Tuesday, July 12.
She and Lindsey Harrell
are planning to be married
at Perry United Methodist
Church on Sept. 24. Jerri
Lynn Nace, center, stands
between her mother Gail
Nace and Julie Harrell,
mother of the groom-to
be. They are flanked by
hostesses Peggy Jackson
and Carol Cannon, left,
and Van Rodgers, Nancy
Graham and Olivia Rains,
right.
Silver pieces certainly add
a touch of elegance to any
table and look beautiful dis
played throughout the
home. Silver service items
are a timeless treasure, and
with proper care, can be
handed down and enjoyed
by many generations.
I always encourage folks
to use their antique and vin
tage items. What fun can be
had just by looking at items
in a china closet or packed
up in boxes? By using your
silver you actually enhance
the appearance as a rich
patina occurs from use and
you will have to polish less.
After using your pieces,
make sure to wash and dry
them thoroughly. Any
pieces that contained salty
or acidic foods should be
rinsed out quickly even if
you can’t wash them until
later. Make sure to use lin
ers for those types of foods
and especially floral
arrangements. Never ever
put silver in the dishwasher.
Detergents can scratch and
the water can leave deposits
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When washing your silver
by hand don’t use rubber
gloves, they cause silver to
tarnish. Use mild detergent
and dry with a soft cloth. Do
not use an abrasive scrub
ber, not even a plastic one.
When polishing your sil
ver use the correct polish
and makes sure to rinse all
residue off and dry with a
soft cloth. Antique books
recommend using a horse
hair brush to polish ornate
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patterns.
I know you are thinking
about using a toothbrush to
get in those cracks and
crevices but they can scratch
and remove the silver plat
ing. Polish silver plate light
ly or you can wear away the
silver and get down to the
base metal.
You can polish sterling
more heavily but remember
that it is a softer material
and should be stored in
chests or cloth bags. There
are some products out there
that you can use to keep the
tarnish away 10 times
longer that normal. I rec
ommend testing those prod
ucts on one piece to see if
that is something that you
would like to use and if it
works for you.
Remember not to store
your silver in plastic wrap or
rubber, it causes tarnish. As
with most antiques, don’t
keep them in a damp base
ment or hot attic either. Use
and enjoy your pretty silver
pieces and share them with
company. Think outside
Special to HHJ
Haley Harvard, 14, was
chosen as a candidate in
the 2005 Miss Teen of
Georgia Scholarship and
Recognition Program.
She is the daughter of
Terry Grimes Harvard and
Paul Harvard of Guyton,
the granddaughter of
Sylvia and Clifford Grimes
and Alice Jane Street of
Perry, and the great-grand
daughter of Buena
Harrison, also of Perry.
Haley was chosen
through recommendations
of her teachers and coach
es.
The Miss Teen of
Georgia program is
designed to recognize and
reward excellence. It is a
by-invitation-only event
for female students, ages
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LIFESTYLE
the box when using your sil
ver. Silver trays or baskets
look great in the bathroom
with towels or toiletries and
floral arrangements look
good in all kinds of different
shaped containers! Happy
collecting!
Hope to see you all at my
estate sale this weekend at
324 Sewell Road in Elko. I
am having to move from the
1850 s plantation home into
a smaller place in town. I
have to do some major
downsizing and am not able
to move a lot of the heavy
pieces so I would like to see
someone else enjoy them!
You can see a listing on our
Web site.
Jillinda Falen is the
owner of Carrie Lynn’s
Antiques in Perry. She has
been collecting and selling
antiques for over 21 years.
She is also an experienced
estate liquidation specialist.
You may contact her via
email at falen@alltel.net,
www.antiquesingeorgia.com
or through the Houston
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Dealing with the corn earworm
The com earworm is the
subject of this space today.
Many of you are or have
already been harvesting
those delicious ears of Silver
Queen, Ambrosia, and sweet
com varieties. If you’re like
me, you always encounter at
least one worm in the tip of
each ear. Not to be outdone,
I normally just cut off the
infested portion and go with
the rest, letting the critters
have their fair share. But
not this year. More on that
later.
First though, let’s look
closer at this the most seri
ous pest of corn in the
Southeast. Attacking several
other garden vegetables,
flowers, and crops such as
tomatoes, beans, cabbage,
tobacco, sweet potatoes, cot
ton, and soybeans, it is also
known as the tomato fruit
worm, the tomato horn
worm, and the cotton boll
worm. The worm is the larva
of a light gray-brown moth
with dark lines on its wings.
Fresh corn silk is the pre
ferred egg-laying site.
However, moths will also
deposit eggs near buds and
growing tips of young corn.
The worms that hatch from
these eggs feed on the new
leaves in the whorls. This
feeding results in ragged
leaves and stunted plants.
More serious damage results
when worms feed on the
silks, causing poor pollina
tion, and when they move to
the end of the ears and feed
on the developing kernels.
Sometimes they even enter
through the husk. Since
caterpillars are cannibalis
tic, by the time they have
entered the shuck and
reached the kernels, only
one of two worms survives.
After feeding, larvae drop to
the ground and burrow into
the soil two to eight inches
to pupate. Overwintering as
pupae, some may survive in
mild winters as far north as
North Carolina, but most
are killed. A new crop of
moths flies in from the
South each year. There are
several generations each
year.
In the home garden, there
are sweet corn varieties that
show resistance to com ear
worm damage-namely,
Country Gentleman, Stay
Gold, Victory Golden, Silver
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Cross Bantam, and
Silvergent. Of these, I have
heard of none but Country
Gentleman, and it is an old
open-pollinated variety
probably not grown much
any more.
Carbaryl ( Sevin) pesticide
is recommended for use in
the garden. Apply carbaryl
50% wettable powder at 4
tablespoons per gallon of
water or carbaryl 80% wet
table powder at 2 ? table
spoons per gallon of water.
Thoroughly wet the silks of
all corn ears when silks first
appear and repeat the treat
ment three to four times at
three-day intervals. Repeat
as necessary until harvest.
This year, I put up a bug
zapper light about 50 feet
from the nearest corn rows
and timed it to come on
about 8:00 PM. and go off at
about 7:00 A.M. each day.
When my wife and I harvest
ed the corn last week, we
noticed almost no com ear
worm damage at all! In fact,
we saw only three or four
veiy tiny worms in the tips
of as many ears. All of the
ears were as pretty as those
in the seen catalogs! I w.
pleasantly surprised at this
finding, since I did not posi
tion the bug zapper to out
smart the corn earworms in
my Silver Princess corn
crop, but rather to lure them
away from my crop of young
Boston ferns in my adjacent
greenhouse.
While I cannot prove that
the absence of earworm
damage was due to the bug
light, it is likely that it
proved simply irresistible,
affording me the cleanest
corn crop I’ve ever had.
Try a bug zapper near
your garden-see if it works!
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