Ida’s
Notebook
by
Ida Risser
Our son has taken his family He will be gone for three weeks
i a vacation west to Wyoming, or rather 19 days. So, my hus-
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band is trying to run the farm.
You’ve heard the saying, “Ev
erything that can go wrong, does
go wrong.” Well, it seems that is
what happened. The weather
here has been quite wet and so
the hay was still laying in the
fields when he left with his pop
up trailer. The neighbor who fi
nally came to bale it had a break
down with his machinery after
doing four bales.
The manure pump broke
down twice and had to be re
paired. A tanker hauled a lot of
manure on the meadow.
A big thunderstorm dumped
three-inches of rain on us and
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the Conestoga River rose. One of
the many heifers disappeared.
Through phone calls we hear
which National Parks they have
visited. They put up a tent, and
for three days hiked with three
small children. That must have
been a test of everyone’s
strength. There were friends and
relatives to visit along the way.
They had to leave a bumper
crop of black raspberries un
picked. The neighbors helped
themselves and I picked a few to
freeze for them when they come
home. My husband has planted
two patches of berries with sup
ports to make them easy to pick.
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We’ll certainly be glad to wel
come them back as running the
farm at our age has been a real
chore. Although, we had not
completely forgotten that things
do go wrong in farming.
Moth
Hot Spots
FLEMINGTON, N.J. This
interesting season, so far, for the
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of
Hunterdon County Garden In
formation Center has been top-
Ivania
erative
ped off by the reap
pearance of gypsy
moth problems in the
county.
An infestation “hot
spot” has been noted
in Holland Township
by the New Jersey
Gypsy Moth Suppres
sion Program
(NJGSP).
Gypsy moth has not
been a significant
problem in our area or
in northern New Jer
sey for several years.
In fact, the number of
acres treated statewide
through the state’s vol
untary suppression
program has declined
to a few hundred from
a peak of 88,000 acres
in 1982. The number
of acres defoliated by
the pest declined re
cently to 1,380 from a
peak of 431,235 in
1990, which was al
ready well below the
maximum of 798.790
acres in 1981.
But, as has hap
pened in the past, the
populations may be on
the increase again in
New Jersey. Pennsyl
vania, which serves a
bellwether for New
Jersey according to the
NJGSP, has experi
enced an increase from
2,292 acres defoliated
in 1997 to 278,182
acres in 1999. Acres
defoliated in the east
ern U.S. have also in
creased almost tenfold
since 1997.
Hunterdon residents
who have experienced
gypsy moth damage
this spring can contact
their municipality. At
a municipality's re
quest, the state will
perform an egg mass
survey in the fall to de
fine possible treatment
areas. If treatment is
found to be warranted,
the municipality may
voluntarily agree to
share cost and partici
pate in the suppression
program. The gypsy
moth is unlikely to
ever be eradicated, but
a combination of vig
ilance, the state’s sup
pression program, and
naturally occurring
caterpillar population
controls such as dis
eases should keep the
pest from overwhelm
ing our area and state
again.