Bill,
About my trip up on Wednesday ...
The pumpkin plot is an insecticide seed treatment trial that pretty much
has to be hand-planted. Do you need me to bring up one or two hand-jab
Almaco planters, or do you have one (or something similar) already. Let me
know.
Rick
Richard
A new issue of Scaffolds Fruit Newsletter for June 4 has been posted at:
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/scaffolds/2007/070604.html
and contains the following items:
Upcoming Events
Trap Catches
Pest Focus
Insects
Orchard Radar Digest
Model Building
Potato Leafhopper
General Info
A new issue of Scaffolds Fruit Newsletter for June 11 has been posted at:
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/scaffolds/2007/070611.html
and contains the following items:
Upcoming Events
Trap Catches
Pest Focus
Insects
Orchard Radar Digest
Model Building
Diseases
Brown rot control
Check out the excellent article on Rachel Carson's legacy in today's
NT Times on-line at the web-site noted below. (It will NOT say what
you might expect from the Times!)
If you go article, it is also worth checking out the link go to
tierney lab which appears below the skeleton emerging
Dave et al, the article appears to be just a free preview now with an
upgrade to purchase the whole article. We apologize but apparently
apple-crop went on a bit of a hiatus in conjunction with myself, so
the posts have not been getting delivered timely.
FWIW, my impression of Rachel
Her legacy is that she was one of a small number of people who, at the time,
made people conscious of the fact that human activity has an impact on our
environment.
Not necessarily a bad lesson to learn.
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Written on a 4 sq. inch BlackBerry screen, which means that
