84-Lancast«r Fanning, Saturday, Juna 12, 1993
On being ‘~-
a farm wife
Joyce Bnpp
-And other
hazards
Beware. The enemy lurks all
about.
The enemy hides behind the
bushes. Waits in hedges and
fencerows. Bides its time in un
derground foxholes. Spies from
high in the treetops.
The enemy strikes during dark
of night and broad daylight It em
ploys guerilla tactics and marches
openly in lined batallions. In
hand-to-hand battle, it bites, it
scratches, it jabs with razor-sharp
weaponry.
This is warfare. Break out the
bombs. Break out the cannons.
And the flyswatter and the lady
bugs and the lime and the netting.
It’s the pest-inside season
and the pest-outside season. From
all directions, bugs descend in
swarms, weeds overrun field and
garden. Even the birds and bees
bear watching.
Opening squirmish of pest-in
side season was with the ants. Id
dy-biddy, teeny-tiny, near-micro
scopic-sized ants that turned up on
the kitchen floor. Our annual ant
invasion usually coincides with
the first warm week. That’s those
giant ants, which work in teams to
cart off loaves of bread and even
the cat if she doesn’t move fast
enough. They showed up right on
time. Swarms of teeny-tinys were
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an extra added attraction this year.
Scatterings of anti-ant powder
have discouraged the intruders,
save for some diehards lusting af
ter the jelly jar.
An explosion of pent-up flies is
released the moment the bam ther
mometer hits 80 degrees. So, just
as we dig out the cut-offs and T
shirts for bam chores, the flies
send out search parties seeking
soft places on cows to bite. Find
ing few, they reroute their mission
to humans not swathed in rugged
cowhide. Mother Nature’s chilly
nights have been a most suppor
tive ally in this year’s fly wars.
Spreadhing greenery into the
pest battlefield scenery are peren
nial favorites like poison ivy,
bindwind (we call it wild sweet
potato), dock and that most indes
tructible of all indestructibles,
Johnsongrass.
The mass of weaponry enlisted
to control chaos in the veggie and
perennial patches would pale un
der Pentagon scrutiny. A sharp
kitchen knife is for digging down
into tough root masses. One of na
ture’s most toxic substances is
then poured into the open wound -
salt. lodized, but it probably
doesn’t matter.
Yes, we even resort to chemical
warfare, enlisting a weed/grass
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Embers Convention Center, 1800
Harrisburg Pike, Carlisle, on June
18 at 8:00 p.m.
Two contestants will compete
for the Cumberland County Dairy
Princess crown. Laura Deitch,
1668 W. Lisburn Rd., Mechanics-
killer for those unpullable, weedy
invasions that refuse to be salted
to death. For legged pests, nico
tine spray is effective and cheap.
Soak a couple of cigarette butts in
water, add a drop or two of dish
washing liquid for stickiness and
apply to those creepy-crawlies
bugging your garden. Do not in
hale.
Lime remains my favorite
also cheap and safe anti-pest
dust. Good for sprinkling in nooks
and crannies where flies lay eggs
and for eliminating a host of veg
gie chewers. A plastic container
with a lid punched full of holes
makes for mess-free dusting.
Could cause sneezing if the wind
is right.
Then there’s the robins, con
vinced that the strawberry patch
has been planted for their exclu
sive enjoyment. We would never
purposely destroy a robin even
over strawberries. But plastic net
ting we use for wrapping those
large, round hay bales deters even
the boldest berry-loving bird when
its draped over the patch.
However, this pest-inside, pest
outside battle is not fought with
out casualties. While feeding my
favorite rosebush a boost of nutri
ents and pest guard, my hand slip
ped off the garden trowel and
smacked into a half-inch-long, ra
zor-tipped thorn. The resulting
muscle soreness and swelling of
that hand has finally disappeared.
Just in time to scratch die poi
son ivy swelling on the other.
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County To Hold Pageant
burg, is the daughter of Chester Sr.
and Kathy Deitch. Lauta is a junior
at Cumberland Valley High
School.
The other contestant is Diane
Myers, 518 Forge Rd., Boiling
Springs, daughter of Richard and
Ethel Myers. She is a senior at
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Lisa Deitch, dauhter of Chester
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appointed junior representative, in
order to assist in county dairy
promotion.
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Bobby Vee
“Baby Face” “Rubber Ball”
“Devil or Angel”
With
AR Stevens
and the Richochettes
• plus •
Street Rods & Custom Cars
In the afternoon from the Blue Moon Cnriien
Diane Myers
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