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Show October Wednesday. 4 .4. THE HERALD, Provo, 10, 1979. Utah-P- age 39 Bergland Sets 10 local' Meetings ijAv' Local Utah people and others over the nation have been invited by Secretary of Agriculture Bob Berglund to make their input regarding economic and social issues affecting the structure of American agriculture and rural life. Those who wish may do so at one of 10 meetings scheduled in various parts of the country. The meeting nearest to Utah will be held Dec. 11 at the Regency Inn, 3900 Elati St., Denver, Colorado. Secretary Bergland will preside at each meeting beginning at 9 a.m. and adjourning at 5 p.m. Bergland noted that we are living in a period when strong and conflicting demands are being made on our agriculture system. He said, "The time has come for a reexamination of our basic policies and institutions that make up our food and agriculture system or influence how it operates." r. He listed 12 broad areas of concern and wants input to know how these affect local farms and communities. The aim is to help establish national policies and programs that will best promote the kind of agriculture and rural life Americans want for the limited to five minutes at the meeting and may submit longer written statements. Besides these statements from speakers, time will be allowed for impromptu comments or questions from the audience. future. The areas of concern are: land ownership, control and tenancy; barriers to entering and leaving farming; production efficiency, size of farms and the role of technology; government programs; tax and credit policies; farm input supply system; farm product marketing system; present and future energy supplies; environmental concerns, including conservation and use of soil and water; returns to farmers; costs to consumers; and, quality of life in rural areas. Instructions from the Secretary's office indicate that interested persons may request to speak Anyone desiring to present a statement should address that request to: Project Coordinator, Structure of Agriculture, Include name, USDA, D C. Washington, 20250. mailing address, phone number, organization represented (if any), and a brief identification of the issues that will be discussed in the statement. If you submit a request and are scheduled to appear on the program, the Secretary says you will be notified. If you are not able to attend, you may still make input. Send comments to the project coordinator to be included in the public record. Apple Weather Good for Picking, Not Color Weather now is great for "picking" but not the best for "coloring" in the apple crop, according to Dr. Ronald H. Walser, USU Extension area horticulturist. Dr. Walser reports that most of the high flavor delicious apples have acceptable color, but quite a few apples with questionable color are going into the juice market. Have you ever wondered what the difference is between cider and apple juice? Dr. Walser offers the . following explanation provided by the International Apple Institute: Apple juice is the natural, undiluted, unfermented juice of whole, sound, fresh apples, completely or partially filtered and clarified. The juice is pasteurized and vacuum sealed in containers. It has a shelf life of a year or longer and needs no refrigeration until opened. Apple cider (sweet apple cider) is the natural, undiluted, unfermented juice of whole, sound, fresh apples, unfiltered, unclarified and unpasteurized. It A World FEET TOWERS NEARLY IN HEIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF William D. Perkins, Provo, IS stands beside the single plant. The seeds came in a packet inside a women's magazine his wife purchased. who William's Tomato Plant Like Jack's Beanstalk When William D. Perkins' wife brought home a women's magazine containing a small packet of cherry tomato seeds, he decided to plant the seeds in his garden this spring, explant pecting to grow a small-size- d tomatoes. with small-size- d The result was a giant tomato plant which now towers nearly 15 feet above his garden. "Each time he'd add another extension on the trellis, I'd laugh. I kept telling him the tomato would never grow that high, but it just kept on climbing," Mrs. Perkins reported. Mr. Perkins planted the tomato near the edge of his lawn and adjacent to a neat vegetable garden, at the back of his home at 1675 West 150 North in Provo. He has other tomato varieties planted on trellises nearby, but they have reached only six or seven feet in height. The plant shown in the photo, above, is a single plant loaded with cherry tomatoes. "They are the best tasting tomatoes I have in my garden," he reports. He planted the cherry tomato seeds two weeks later than the other torduto seeds in his garden. Strength of Communities Hinges on Agriculture "The strength of both rural and urban communities in Utah hinges on the success of agriculture. The strength of agriculture depends heavily on cooperatives designed to provide special services and functions needed by their farmer member." So stated Dr. Morris H. Taylor, economist and marketing specialist, Utah State University Extension Service. Citing this relationship and its importance to local communities, he reminded that agricultural production, and distribution has the Erocessing and labor multiplier of any of the 39 different industries encompassing Utah's economy. Utah's total economy depends much on the vitality of cooperatives, Governor Scott Matheson noted in designating October as Co-o- p Month in and conCooperation. "Farmer-owne- d trolled coopertives play a key role in making the family farm the highly productive unit it has become. They provide sound markets for the products of members, furnish goods and services to members when and where needed and at competitive prices, and provide improved production inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and feed." no-ho- st Without InsectsCould Be Fruitless - GIANT TOMATO PLANT needs constant refrigeration since it will keep only a appear that the majority prefer a spur type Delicious, few days without it. When refrigerated, it stays on M 7 planted 18 x 10 and kept as vigorous as possisweet and unfermented for one to two weeks or two ble, he said. Nurserymen report that trees are sold' to three weeks if a preservative has been added. out for 1980, and they are booking heavily for 1981, so Hard apple cider is well fermented and processed he urges horticulturists to get their tree orders in soon. apple juice or cider with a low alcohol content. According to this definition, a lot of the so called A recent study performed in New York "cider" sold in retail outlets should be labelled "apindicates that the flower structure of the "Delicious" apple ple juice," Dr. Walser said. The horticulture specialist reports that strychnine differs from that of most apple cultivars by having - treated grain for mouse and gopher control will be gaps at the base of the stamens. Honey bees learn to available to certified growers at a cost of $60 for 100 collect nectar through these gaps and avoid the flowers' sexual parts, consequently, visits to pounds, plus freight from Pocatello, Idaho. He invites growers to pool their orders through the Utah "delicious" are less than half as effective in pollination as are visits to other cultivars, he County Horticulture Society and make one trip. reports. A luncheon of the Utah County Horticulture Interested parties should contact him at the Utah Society is planned for Oct. 17 at 12 noon at Orchard County Extension office. The apple rootstock controversy continues in the Hill restaurant in Payson. Dr. Walser invites Northwest, Dr. Walser reported, after returning growers to take a break from their picking and packfrom a recent trip to that area. Each grower and ing to discuss some timely fruit topics at this Infornurseryman has his particular favorite; however, it mal session. WASHINGTON For some people, it's the cockroach, scurrying into a crack behind the refrigerator when the light hits it. Ft others, it's the cricket, lurching out of a dark con er of the basement. Or it can be the whining buzz of an unseen fly or mosquito. Just about everyone gets the shivers from one insect or another, and many people would like to avoid them altogether. But the idea that the only good bug is a dead bug is not very intelligent, entomologists say. "A world without insects would be a very unpleasant place," asserted Gary F. Hevel, insect collections manager for the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. Life Might Be Fruitless Without pollination by bees, wasps, and mosquitoes, there would be few flowers, frutis, and vegetables, he pointed out. Insects fill the bellies of many birds, fish, and mammals, and bugs such as cockroaches and crickets act as scavengers, clearing the environment of dead and decaying matter. So what is it about cockroaches, for instance, that ? gives people the "I suppose that when a person wakes up at night and sees creepy-crawl- y things on the wall, he assumes they're up to no good," Hevel hypothesized. The cockroach, one of the earth's oldest insects, is only one of hundreds of thousands of species that have been named. Some entomologists believe there are 2 million or more insects species in the world, compared with only about 6,800 kinds of birds. Many insects have been around since before the days of the dinosaur, and new ones are still evolving. "We'll cause the extinction of many insect species without ever even meeting them," Hevel said. Although they're in the minority, a few insects are harmful to people. Bees and wasps cause more deaths in this country than spiders and snakes do; a person who reacts allergically to a sting can die within 15 minutes. But bees and their ilk don't go around looking for people to bother. Like most insects that can hurt people, they attack when they fell threatened. "Some insects bite, some sting, some do both, but there are very few aggressive animals, let alone insects," Hevel said. Crawling Stereotypes Confusing harmful insects with the harmless ones results in a lot of unnecessary cringing, and such fears are catching, say entomologists. "Children will play with just about anything that crawls, and parents inadvertently pass on their fears about bugs to them, especially when the parents don't know one bug from another," said Dr. Roger Meola of Texas A&M Univeristy's entomology department. It's silly to wince when a dragonfly swoops by, bug experts say, because it can't sting. Instead, it's probably flying around gobbling up insects that are pests. But facts like that are lost on people who become irrational about insects. They are victims of heebie-jeebies- He pointed out that through their Entomophobia cooperatives individual farmers have two bees, one "We've had four insect cases developed marketing power and cockroach, and a Dr. Robert cricket," reported a that purchasing power provides director of a Washington, DC, clinic to help with people overcome phobias. agribusinesses. The patient who feared cockroaches, he said, At the same time, farmer refused to eat at home or let anyone else eat there for cooperatives have greatly benefited fear of crumbs drawing the bug. For the woman afraid of crickets, a consumers by furnishing quality products, using more efficient distribu- government employee, life had become dominated Utah. tion methods and packaging. All of by fear. Believing a cricket was awaiting her on the "Cooperatives are good for all these have helped to hold down prices sidewalk when she came home from work, she of food and fiber products used by con- would sit in her car, gathering courage to walk five Americans," declared Owen K. feet to her door. On summer weekends she hid out inpresident, American Institute of sumers, the national leader noted. side, thinking an army of crickets was waiting to kill her. "I imagined crickets to be huge too big to fit under my shoe if I stepped on one," she recalled. "I really believed that if I met up with a cricket, my heart would beat so fast I would die." Encounter Therapy included a visit to the Natural History Museum's Insect Zoo, where after an hour of crying Consider the solubility corn, alfalfa hay, beet in protein solubility. and trembling, the patient got up the nerve to conof protein in your dairy pulp and soybean meal, The report warned of front the enemy. rations. you increase the amount the highly soluble nature "I saw that it was just a little black thing that of that the of disadvanand the urea J. Melvin protein Dr. passes to hop," she said. "Finally, after seven weeks and is Anderson, animal nutri- rumen ultimately tages if too much of it artion researcher, Utah absorbed in the small in- rives in the rumen at one of therapy that were torture for me, I was running through parks barefoot, even looking for crickets." State University, says testine. From there it The Insect 'Zoo is designed to put bugs in a positive much of the protein may contributes most to in- time. If you do feed high in airy cages, colorful settings, and with lots light of such creased to and convert ammonia solubilty ingredients production zoo's direcbe lost in the rumen milk, milk protein, fat as urea and ensiled of information, said Sheila Mutchler, the tor. not This is the solids and fat. a from sugforages, report digestion process There volunteers take insects from their cages and ration containing too particularly important gests that you mix them hold them out for visitors to fondle. It is often a child much of the highly solu- during the cow's peak with low solubility-hig- h who first reaches out to touch a forbidding-lookin- g ble protein ingredients. lactation. hornworm, only to find it smooth, almost silky. Feed out in was This ingredients. energy are: these urea, pointed Among Volunteers Used in blended a the ration 1978 high moisture grain, a report of the "We use volunteers who seem to be calm, so bunk the or manufacFeed American wheat manger midlings, silages, and they're trained not to reinwheat bran and linseed turers Nutrition Council. soluble nitrogen will be reasonable people, to the insects," Ms. reactions force negative It ritpd a study indicating eaten over a period of mpa, Mutchler explained. intime the tht that He says by feeding lactating dairy allowing "We've even had people volunteer to work here so gredients of less soluble cows performed best on a bacteria to assimilate the they could get over their own particular fear." not ammonia was that ration such as high efficiently. barley, protein, When visitors aren't touching the bugs they're gawking, especially at the tarantulas, walking sticks, and giant katydids. Or they're standing quietly in a corner watching the ants, a society of move their lower jaw. Even the flea has is intersting points. There are about 1,000 kinds, and each has a favorite organism for biting. Their ubiquity was recognized in the days of Jonathan Swift, who wrote in 1733: "So naturalists observe, a flea ' Hath smaller fleas that on him prey: And these have smaller still to bite'em And so proceed ad infinitum. just leaf-cutt- er garbage collectors, gardeners, nursery tenders, scouts, soldiers, and leaf cutters that work to build an environment out of chewed-u- p leaves. Visitors might learn that spiders one of the most maligned "insects" really aren't insects because they have eight legs rather than six. And, except for the black widow and brown recluse, most spiders shouldn't be feared. Their venom won't hurt people. The spider that frightened Miss Muffet away probably wasn't after her or her curds and whey. Spiders prefer insects. So sparing the life of one spider in the house might mean elimination of five or 10 flies, mosquitoes, or moths. Police, Strikers Clash - NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) About 1UU policemen in riot gear pushed 400 striking pickets out of the way today and to allow strike breaking workers to enter the Olin Corp. gun manufacturing plant. Chief Edward Morrone said five persons were ar- four for disorderly conduct, and one for carrying a dangerous weapon, a length of pipe. One picket, Myra Cunningham, 25, was struck by a car and taken to Yale-NeHaven Hospital, where a spokeswoman said she was expected to be treated and released. rested Bugs Not So Simple Some showy insects, such as the firefly, have obvious attractions. But the unexciting-lookinbugs g also are complex. 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