Notes Gathered From Here and There
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BINGO!
By Bob Bolt
Probably the greatest factor
in good fruit production in the
home orchard is a planned spray
schedule for control of insects
and diseases. Most home fruit
growers fail to realize the value
of insect control or fear that
equipment and material costs
would be prohibitive. Elaborate
equipment is not necessary. The
home fruit grower can use a
bucket pump; a compressed air
sprayer; a knapsack sprayer; or
for a large number of trees, a
barrel type sprayer. The com
pressed air sprayer and the knap
sack sprayer may be used from
the top of a ladder, or brass rods
may be used to reach taller trees.
Most spray materials can be pur
chased locally in small lots if de
sired. Be sure to follow direc
tions carefully.
Diseases of fruits that are
■most common are rots, leaf and
fruit spot, and scab. Bordeaux
mixture and wettable sulphur
are used to control these.
Insects of fruits are those
which chew or eat foliage and
fruit and sucking insects. Chew
ing insects are controlled by the
use of a stomach poison such as
lead arsenate. Sucking insects
are controlled by the use of
miscible oil or lime sulphur.
The spray program usually be
gins before the leaves appear.
This early spray is for control of
scale or sucking insects. Second
spraying occurs in the bloom
period (apples—when buds are
pink) followed by subsequent
spraying at two to four week
intervals. These later sprayings
are for control of chewing in
sects, scab, rot, and spot.
Pick up and destroy dropped
Bingo is quite a game.
As most Ecustans know, the
game is played with a card filled
with numbers which are some
times called, but never in the
right combination. Grains of
corn or little bright-colored
wood buttons are used to cover
those numbers, when and if they
are called. Invariably, though,
you have several times as many
grains of corn or wooden but
tons impatiently resting in your
sweaty hands as you have on the
card. It’s doubtful if any player
in Bingo history ever ran out
of corn or buttons.
You get yourself settled and
ready to start. You glance hope
fully at the beautiful prize
table, filled with many nice
prizes that the "other fellow”
always wins. As a come-on, you
find in the center of your card
a Free space. What trickery! But
you hopefully fill in the space,
with the sneaking feeling that
you are one number ahead of
everyone else at the very start!
You don’t stop to think that
everyone else also has a free
space on his card, too.
"Here we go,” the Master of
Ceremonies says and your
thoughts are about ham, ducks,
cheese, candy, or whatever else
might be on the prize table that
night.
"B-2,” the M. C. begins.
fruit every four or five days be
ginning as soon as the first drop
is noticed in order to check
later infectation by worms and
rots.
CAUTION; Spray materials
should be kept away from the
mouth, nose, and eyes, for some
are both irritating and poison
ous. They should be kept away
from children and animals!
Write to N. C. Agricultural
Extension Service, Raleigh, and
ask for Extension Folder No. 62
on "Spraying Home Fruits.”
"Gosh, I have B-1 and B-3,” you
say. And on and on it goes.
Many, many times you lacked
just one number, but that "other
fellow” always yells "Bingo” be
fore that last number is called.
An idea hits you. Change
cards! You’ll show them that
you can win. But, alas! That
card won’t win either.
But, no luck. Finally there’s
the grand prize and for this
handsome present you go
"around the board” as the term
is known to veteran Bingo fana
tics like yourself. Surely Lady
Luck will somehow be with you
on this last roundup.
After five or six numbers are
called, some fair maiden loses
her feminine composure for the
moment and shrieks the Magic
Word. You think thoughts that
cannot be printed here. "How
can a blankety-blankety gal go
all around the card in five or six
numbers?” you ask your equal
ly disturbed neighbors.
It turns out that the young,
excited maiden has never played
"around the board” before, and
she thought the regular rules
were still in effect.
Doggedly, you dig back in.
Your luck begins to change. You
fill the outside of your card
with amazing speed—at least,
most of it. Finally you lack
only one. You can taste that
ham already. Then some "other
fellow” across the room who has
already won two of the best
prizes of the night, yells out a
five letter word beginning with
B and ending with O.
As you trudge out—it’s about
11 o’clock now—you think how
much better you could have
spent the evening, that you must
pay the baby-sitter when you get
home, and all for nothing. Ev
erybody, it seems, has their arms
loaded with prizes but you.
"Never again, will I . .
But you will. See you at the
next Bingo party!
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