■ v4 .1 PAGE TWENTY - EVENING HERALD, Thurs.. July 19, 1979 Gardening ToureUe*s Syndrome Summer Production Officials Discuss Crisis Wolfe Goof Wins Is Medical iMystery Takes Talent,^Work Of Gasoline, Heating Oil Por the Red Sox Master GariJener Gives Phone Advice '• Page 6 P age ® 1 Page 1 0 Page 11 By FRANK ATWOOD ^ ------------------- ..................... “Several people have told me that their blueberries are Extension Service. Part of his training in the classroom to be usefut as a rabbit repeiiant. He reasoned not sweet,” the Master Gardener said. “I tell thejtn to told him where to look for answers to a gardener's CO dust is an ingredient, with naptha flakes and leave the berries on the bushes longer; blueberrieii are questions. blood, in a commercialiy prepared dust that keeps ra^ not sweet when they first turn blue; they ought to b<;'; left Since he has been a gardener ail his life, Mr. Pfalzgraf bits away because they do not like the smell, and that the nicotine sulfate in Black Leaf 40 is made from tobacco. on the bushes another six days.” i can answer many questions from his own experience. He Fair Tonight, The Master Gardener on duty at the Tolland Co unty has gained skiil in handling such questions also through Now he suggests that peopie whose gardens are being Sunny Saturday Agricultural Center in Vernon was Herbert Pfalzgri if of his work behind the counter at the Ellington Agway store. raided by rabbits put some Black Leaf 40 in a sprinkier I Rockville. He gives his time for three hours, once a W eek, He had worked at the same store when it was a branch can of water and sprinkle it around the edge of the gar­ Dttalla on page 2 I answering questions from home gardeners, either or, i the of the Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange, a New den. Some gardeners have cailed back to tell him it works telephone or in person if a gardener goes to the TAf ^ of­ England-based cooperative that merged with two New ^'"^There are a lot of tricks,” he says. “1 used to'put DDT fice for help. York State cooperatives to form Agway. He has been There are similar groups of volunteers in each o(i' the selling seeds, iivestock feed, fertilizer and equipment to on corn silk to kill com ear warms; now I put a few drops of mineral oil on the silk.” It is not a poison but the adults I eight offices of the Cooperative Extension Service oT the farmers and gardeners for 24 years. 1 University of Connecticut. They are still called “cou, ntry Personally interested in getting a satisfactory answer that lay the eggs on the silk that later hatch into ear 10 Years Ago i offices” although Connecticut’s eight counties Vvere to every question, Mr. Pfalzgraf has bought books, over worms do not like the oil. Vol. XCVIII, No. 246 — Monohootof. Conn.. Friday. July 20,1978 • A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 • 20t Single Copy • 15t Home Delivered Many garden problems can be traced this year, says i abolished as entities of government some years ago. Mr. the years, that help him identify plants and their WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi­ l*S<y the Master Gardener, to prolonged wet weather in May. Pfalzgraf is one of 13 volunteers, six men and si :ven ailments. He brings his own books to the TAG office. dent Carter today marked the 10th I The wet weather brought a heavy infestation of maggots I women, who come to the Tolland County office. , If he should be really “stuck,” the Master Gardener anniversary of man’s first landing Each of the volunteers has taken a “crash course.” in can call for help from the University of Connecticut, that attack the roots of planU and many assorted plant on the moon, calling it “an un­ I gardening, attending 11 three-hour sessions last wir iter, where Edmond Marrotte, consumer horticulturist, in a diseases that are called “blights” and “rots.” forgettable milestone in the Schlesinger when specialists from the University's College ^ of “back-up” source of information. Mr. Pfalzgraf says that history of exploration.” I Agriculture and Natural Resources gave lectures an d il­ so far this year he has not had to call on the university. PARK HILL JOYCE The president’s anniversary lustrated some of these talks with color slides, hel)ping FLOWER SHOP statement was issued prior to a wi the volunteers prepare for questions that could be joint news conference by Apollo [expected. Experience Is Valuable ll’s astronauts, Neil Armstrong, I Mr. Pfalzgraf was a volunteer when the program Michael Collins and Edwin And Adams The Master Gardener thinks that "experience is the ,Vv\ SPECIAL “Buzz” Aldrin, at the National I started last year and liked the assignment well enouR h to great thing.” A recent call, for example, asked for advice OF THE WEEK Air and Space Museum. I offer his services for another summer. The Maiister on planting potatoes, Mr. Pfalzgraf answered promptly On July 20,1969, Armstrong put I Gardeners began their work in May and will stay oni the that potatoes need 90 to 100 days from planting to harvest his left foot on the moon, taking I job through October. They get no pay and no reimbu rse- and about half of that time had already gone past. Nobody what he called “One small step I ment for expenses. could expect to get a harvest from potatoes planted in POMPONS Next to Go for man, one giant step for I Back-Up Help Connecticut in July. His answer about sweet and sour blueberries came mankind.” In front of him on the desk Mr. Pfalzgraf had a ro'iv of Bunch WASHINGTON (UPI) - President [seven loose-leaf notebooks on such subjects as lawns, from reading the garden page in the Sunday New York • l . » 7 (CASH end CARRY) Carter has accepted the resignation I vegetables, house plants, insect pests and plant disea ses. Times. nowens ind ARRAHOtUeHTS for cvery occasion ... Talks Planned of embattled Energy Secretary [Each notebook is a collection of bulletins, in paper He figured out tor himself that Black Leaf 40, an insec­ ,16 (U K ST.. MINCHKSTKR TrI. 6I>M)T9I .i, .6H»,I I I I IK I.I James Schlesinger in the second [covers, some thin and some bulky, published by the ticide that has been on the market for many years, ought GENEVA, Switzerland (U P I)- _________ * r.IRK IM ; • MIKK OHI.OWSKI. 1'n.p. Vietnam told the Indochinese round of his massive Cabinet reshuf­ Refugee Conference today it is fle, sources said today. Exorcism ready to hold “concrete dis­ ^hlesinger will leave in early Oc­ Master Gardener Herbert Pfalzgraf cussions" on creating a special tober, the sources said, and be (H Cabinet answers a caller’s question about gardening center on its territory to process replaced by Deputy Defense at the Tolland County Agricultural Center in persons waiting to leave the coun­ Secretary Charles Duncan, an Atlan­ Continues Vernon. (Herald photo by Pinto) try. ta businessman. Duncan will move U.N. Secretary General Kurt into the Energy Department in mid- At last we're Waldheim urged the 57 nations at Subject of Battle August to learn the ropes. the conference — the largest ever Carter also was expected to accept Ryba Seeks Bids gathered to discuss refugees — to It’s a little hard to imagine, but these road signs and dirt to dead-end Burnham Street the resignation of Transportation No modern president had kept his help save the lives of “thousands signs and piles of dirt are the subject of a con- near its intersection with Croft Drive. South Secretary Brock Adams today. original — Carter once called it For Road Repair upon thousands” and avoid a timing battle between Manchester and South Windsor has sued to keep the road open. Adams has defied new chief of staff “superb” — Cabinet intact as long as readyl bitter political debate. Windsor. The Town of Manchester used these (Herald photo by Adamson) Hamilton Jordan in demanding Carter. But when he made changes, BOLTON - First Selectman Henry Ryba has been Vietnamese deputy foreign direct access to Carter, and White he made them massively, rapidly, authorized by the Board of Selectmen to obtain bids for minister Phan Hien told the con­ House aides were furious. and for reasons having nothing to do the rebuilding of Mohegan Trail and Iroquois Trail. ference Hanoi “is anzious to The ouster of Schlesinger and with policy disagreement. Adams would bring to five the vic­ Ryba told the board that something has to be done alleviate the burden” of other Califano, describing Carter’s because Mohegan Trail has caved in. He said the entire tims of Carter’s Cabinet exorcism. Southeast Asian countries which words to him, said: “There were two bed of amesite on the west side of Mohegan Trail and the COME TO OUR are giving temporary asylum to Design Work Begins On Thursday -Treasury Secretary problems. One related to friction south side of Iroquois Trail has to be removed and Vietnamese refugees. Michael Blumenthal’s resignation with certain members of the White replaced. was accepted. He will be replaced by House staff, and the other point he When asked what the estimated cost for the job would NEW HARDWARE New Regime Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. mentioned was that he had to get the be Ryba said $76 and quickly changed that to $76,000. William Miller. Cabinet and the administration ready He'said the price should hold if the work is done by the For Elderly Housing Attorney General Griffin Bell got MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) for the 1980 election.” end of September.