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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1974
Page
8
Summer brings fruit on counters and a guide to choosing ripe blemish free produce. It covers ripeness signs washing storage rules room temperature refrigeration times per fruit and tips to handle and sort fruit before storing plus notes on bananas melons berries and extending freshness with proper air circulation.
A surge in home and urban gardening spreads nationwide as Americans fight invisible enemies like inflation and obesity. Seed sales jump 60 percent at Burpee, Dallas gardens rise 200 percent, energy gardens appear in Sacramento, and banks rent garden plots. Urban projects in New York and San Francisco show rooftop, community, and school garden growth. Experts offer pest control tips from Vermont, while nutritionists promote gardening for weight loss and exercise.
Vermont State Farm Bureau executive secretary Deacy Leonard and Mrs. Leonard joined Bennington County Farm Bureau members at Camp Ondawa Sunderland for the annual spring meeting and steak barbecue. The event thanked the committee chaired by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fuller. Eleanor Lawrence gave the invocation and Harold Beebe led the flag salute before a short business meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graf presented slides from their people-to-people travel program through western and eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, narrated by Mrs. Graf.
Burlington experts urge restraint on chemical weed killers. Dr. Ted Flanagan of the University of Vermont Extension Service says prevention is best and a well-watered, properly mowed lawn discourages weed germination. If needed, granular herbicides pose the least risk to desirable plants.
Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative based in Syracuse re elected its entire slate of officers for another year at a June 6 reorganizational meeting. Howard Merrill of Walton will serve a second year as President with Arden Tewksbury as Vice President from Meshoppen, Robert Baldwin Secretary from Maryland, and Max Lonstein Treasurer from South New Berlin.
United Press International notes a growing hobby of cultivating wildflowers in place of conventional lawns. Gardeners embrace species like moneywort, Queen Anne's lace, and dandelions for challenging sites, with conservationists urging careful collection and relocation to protect scarce native blooms.
Washington study highlights pesticides as life saving when used carefully. It notes vast U S production and usage, benefits to health and crops, plus potential hazards from misuse and residues. The piece outlines explicit safety tips including labeling, proper application, storage, disposal and emergency actions.
A harsh weather event in the north causes a mass die-off of insect-eating birds. The surviving records indicate thousands perished, impacting local ecosystems and prompting wildlife officials to assess losses and potential conservation actions.
Vermont horticulture expert Dr. Norman Pellett outlines lilac varieties colors and pruning methods. He notes French hybrids form large fragrant clusters and young shoots on top produce flowers while older branches should be pruned to ground level to encourage new growth.
Burlington VT Safe wiring in barns can help prevent fires says Andrew Tessmann Vermont extension agricultural engineer. He notes many barns have unsafe worn out wiring or poorly installed new work and cites fires of unknown origin due to smoking hay or faulty wiring. He urges metal conduit or armored cable, non metallic cable with durable insulation, non metallic outlet boxes, grounded three wire systems, three pronged plugs, and properly sized fuses based on circuit load.
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