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BfcCTION 2- PAGE 6- PLA1NDEALER - FRIDAY. JUNE 1,1979 Town-Country Tips by David Plochor. Extension Sorvico 330-3737 - 338-4747 Home Chemicals- Remember that the pesticide label is ipandatory reading material. Also keep in mind that it is against federal law to use a ffroduct inconsistent with its labeling. If the label talks about Acres and you have a small tfrea, you can figure the Rroportion to use. An acre has 43,560 square feet (length of the ®rea times the width). Your <rea in square feet divided by •3,560 is the part of the acre you will be spraying. 1 Lastly, keep all pesticides, gleaning materials and similar chemicals up- out of the reach of children. Qtsecticide Use- Crop rotation- from corn to soybean is one of the oldest and most often tested control measures for corn Tootworm. The record of success is excellent. If you are in this rotation and are using a corn rootworm insecticide, you a^e using an expensive product needlessly. Porn Insects- Be sure to check fields of newly emerging corn frr missing, cut or wilted irfants-- signs that cutworms firfi at work. Small cutworms Cup to one-third grown) will feed above ground on leaves. This is the earliest sign that cutworms are present. Control is justified if 3 percent or more iff the plants are damaged and K there are two or more cut­ worms present per 100 plants. Control options for rescue treatments are several. Our recommendations call for the use of Lorsban, Sevin or Dylox. Soybean Weed Control- Check your herbicide label for time of application on soybeans. Soybeans can be easily injured if a preemergent product is used in early postemergente- while the soybeans are still in the c o t y 1 e d j / n s t a g e . Alfalfa Weevil- Damage comes mainly from the larvae. It is black-headed and green colored with a prominent white stripe down its back, and two fainter white stripes on either side. As a rule-of-thumb the alfalfa should be treated when 25 percent of the tips had ob­ vious feeding and when there are two or three larvae per. stem. A number of insecticides are listed for the control of the alfalfa weevil. They are detailed in Circular 899, Insect Pest Management Guide for Field and Forage Crops. In addition. Circular 1136, Alfalfa Weevil Pest Management Program should be on the farm of any alfalfa grower in McHenry county. Call us at 338-3737 or 4747. Soybean Contest- The 5-acre soybean contest is much more than that. It is providing valuable cultural information to farmers and researchers. Call me if you want more details on ^ the contest. Sheep Building Plans- I have just received an addition to "my Midwest Plan Service Catalogue. It includes five different plans for feeder lamb confinement, ewe and lambing barns and portable lamb feeding sheds. For more in­ formation, call or drop by the office at 224 N. Judd street, Woodstock, or phone 338-3737 or 4747. Thin Vegetables- Most direct- seeded vegetables require careful thinning in order to develope properly. Thinning, requires that excess seedlings be cut off at soil level, leaving only the strongest seedling at proper row spacing. Thinning should be done within two or three weeks of sowing. Do not thin peas or beans. Sow pea and bean seeds at two or three inch intervals and let them grow unthinned. Radishes should be thinned to one inch apart. Carrots to two inches, beets and turnips to three inches, rutabaga parsnip and chards^jlo six inches; leaf lettuce, spinach, mustard and collards, three to six inches (collards up to nine inches); sweet com 9 to 12 inches; and squash, melons and cucum­ bers, two to four seedlings per hill. Try not to disturb the soil when thinning. Clip off the unwanted seedlings at ground level with a scissors or a knife and water the row after thin­ ning. Crop Protection Workshops - Farmers, crop scouts and pesticide applicators are in­ vited to a series of workshops on crop protection. They will be a combination of indoor and field training. The first session will be May 31 at the Kane county extension center in St. Charles.Topics covered will be techniques for scouting; identification of weed seedlings, seedling diseases, herbicide injury, plant populations and black cut­ worm. It will begain at 2 p.m. and end at 6 p.m. The next two sessions will be at the Dekalb Farm Bureau . building on July 18 and July 19 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The topics of these sessions will be corn and soybean insect, disease and weed problems. U of I plant pathologists, weed scientists and en­ tomologists will conduct the program. Call me for details or enrollment at 338-3737 or 4747. Sow Feeding- For optimum reproductive performance, 4.4 pounds of a high energy feed should be fed to pregnant sows. This is a recommendation of the National Research council and depends upon factors like sow age, size, condition, en­ vironment and space. Underfeeding will decrease the birth weight, while over­ feeding will decrease the litter size. Pesticide Container Disposal- The Environmental Protection agency (EPA) is proposing to develope a nation-wide con­ tainer disposal system, which L Prices Effective Frl., Juno 1 thru Sun., June 3 FIBERGLAS r \ Insulation Keep your house cool in the lummtr and warm and cosy in tha wintor months with oasy-to-install insulation. SIZE 6"xl5"x39'6" 48.96 Sq. Ft. 3V7n x 15" x 70*6" 88.12 Sq. Ft. 3V»" x 23" x 55'10" 107Sq.Ft. REG. PMCE 11.67 11.87 13.76 ON SALE 10.37 10.47 12.54 Handy Panels Economical and oasy to work for countloss usos. Light wolght, stiff and strong. Smooth, solid, sandod facos for at tractive appoarancfl R SIZE REG. 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It would cost the Illinois farmer about $2.50 to dispose of a five- gallon can. The EPA presently recom­ mends that farmers triple-rinse and puncture empty pesticide containers. A survey indicates that only 28 percent of the farmers in Illinois triple-rinse their containers. Eighty-four percent of the farmers said they rinsed at least once. plots will be planted as a result of these contacts, he added. Another 71 landowners have been given 185 food patch packets which contain a variety of herbaceous plantings beneficial to nearly all forms of upland wildlife including songbirds, deer, squirrels and rabbits, Marshalla said. In another initiative to aid wildlife, private landowners bought enough tree seedlings from the state nursery to convert 300 barren acres into hospitable nesting places for birds and small mammals. Besides all the property that stands to be improved, there were 27 new areas totalling 381 acres that qualified for in­ clusion in the Acres for Wildlife program, Marshalla noted. The landowners who qualify for this program pledge to maintain their property as habitat for at least one year. "Sound And Light" Begins "Sound and Light at the Old State Capitol" began its fourth season Saturday evening, May 26, and will' be presented nightly except Mondays at 9 o'clock (weather permitting) through Saturday, Sept. 18, in Springfield. Admission fs free to the 45- minute multi media electronic production. Audiences are seated in a special portable grandstand on the south mall of the Old State Capitol plaza in downtown Springfield. The voice of the late Lee J. Cobb narrates the story of • Abraham Lincoln's association with the Old Capitol, his political career, and his ap­ proach to the issues that precipitated the Civil War. The drama is contained on an eight-track magnetic tape, which plays voices, music and sound effects over eleven speakers and activates more than 160 lighting fixtures to pre- coded color and intensity levels. This enables sound and light to exploit the power of suggestion to such a degree that the audience-in its mind's eye-begins to "see and hear" the events that took place when Lincoln lived in Springfield and worked in the Old Captiol. Immediately after each presentation, the audience is invited into the lobby of the Old Capitol to view the Illinois State Historical Library's copy of the Gettysburg Address in Lin­ coln's own handwriting. One of only five such copies extant, it is displayed in a safe specially designed for the purpose. Street lighting and store display lighting adjacent to the Old Capitol are extinguished during "Sound and Light at the Old State Capitol" to minimize 20th-century distractions. Street traffic on adjoining street is also halted; for one hour each performance evening beginning at 8:45 "Sound and Light at the Old State Capitol" is operated by th« Illinois State Historical Library. Comments or queries regarding the presentation should be directed to Illinois State Historian, Old State Capitol, Springfield, 111., 62706, telephone (217)'782-4836. RTA Equity For Boondocks? BYZANTINE-RITE MASS The Byzantine-Rite Catholic community of Northeastern Illinois celebrates an English divine liturgy each Saturday at 7:30 p.m/ in the St. Peter's convent chapel, Antioch. The convent is located one block north of Routes 173 and 59 in Antioch. Coffee and doughnuts are served afterward. Any Eastern-Rite Catholics are invited to join in forming a mission church in the area. For more information please write to Fr. Francis Kub, 557 Lake street, Antioch, 111., 60002. The Illinois Senate has ap­ proved two measures designed to provide some equity for residents in the outlying areas of the six-county R.T.A. region. Bills sponsored by Sen. Jack Schaffer, R-Cary, would allow the R.T.A. board to vary the rates of taxation in the different counties and require the state Department of Revenue to record gas tax collections by area. "Enactment of a law proposing a differential would hopefully result in the R.T.A. taxing residents of each county based on the service received," Sen. Schaffer said.("Mandating the state to monitor the gas tax collections by geographic region would enable residents in the suburbs and collar counties to determine if the taxes they are paying to sup­ port the R.T.A. are being returned to their areas as required by law." Schaffer said, "The two bills still have hurdles to clear, but for the first time, since for­ mation of the R.T.A. we are making some headway toward makine this agency more responsive to those who live outside the city of Chicago." He noted that the Senate narrowly missed passing another bill that would allow counties to disconnect from the R.T.A. region, falling just two votes short of the 30 needed for passage. "The resounding defeat the day before of a proposal by Chicago Democrats to adopt a one cent increase in the sales tax to fund the R.T.A. in the six counties is an encouraging sign," Sen. Schaffer said. Quite Safe Mts. Delight (meeting po- itician at party): "I've heard a great deal about you." Politician (absently): "Pos­ sibly, but you cant prove it." 27% OFF Economy Studs $>•• i37_ t ft. 2" x 4" studs of hard woods for all your building and rapair jobs. 14% OFF 8' Furring Strips Sale 53c Rag. 62C furring strips. 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