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Show Reflections, June 14, 1984, Page 15 Quilt Display Date Changed by Halcyon L. Robins, your freezer stops functioning and the food starts to thaw. Considerable time and effort, as well as money, may go into filling your freezer and it is natural to want to salvage as much food as possible, but safety considerations should come first. Feel the food packages. If the contents are still frozen thawed but with some ice crystals remaining or still cold, they will probably still be safe to USU Ext Home Economist ANNUAL QUILT CONTEST In my newsletter, stated that the Quilt Contest and Display would be held on July 5, but there has been a quilts are due no later than change will be displayed in the and 2, July courthouse on July 3 from 10:00 until 4:00 p.m. This annual Great American this year Quilt Contest is by USU and the Utah Quilt Guild. Information and entry blanks are available at our county extension office and should be turned into the Tooele Office no later than 4:00 p.m. on July 2. Win ning quiltswall hangings will be on dis play in Logan at the Great West Fair July 27 through August 4. For more in I eat. Consider the nature of the food. Food with a high sugar content will thaw first. Such foods are subject to fermentation and mold growth, both of which are easy to detect. r Smell all thawed food. An indicate may spoilage. However, food can be spoiled and still not have an offensive odor. j Clean out the freezer, wiping up any spoilage. Separate food packages, leaving space around the packages to improve air circulation. Lower the freezer temperature to the lowest level. off-odo- formation, contact Betty Johnson 882-233- WHAT TO DO WHEN THE FREEZER GOES OUT! Use your senses and common sense to evaluate the safety of food when cracker By Wade Bitner Tooele County Agent barrel Fruit Tree Spraying Guidelines Offered they may be controlled by Diazinon, a couple of sprays will usually be sufficient, but you wont control the curled There is nothing worse than biting into an apple and seeing half a worm. The worm is usually a codling moth larvae and can be controlled by proper leaves. After just getting through surveying ' ' spraying. The latest information we have from codling moth traps indicates the initial egg hatch will occur between June Spraying should begin at 5 percent moth hatch which is estimated to be June in the Tooele area and June in the Grantsville, Erda area. - 16-2- 0 13-1- 7 Spray with Diazinon following the instructions on the label every days or Imidan (wettable powder by Morgrow) every 18 days or Zolone (liquid concentration by every 14 days. Powdery Mildew, the fine white powdery material covering the leaf upper surface of fruit trees, roses, grapes and squash. For food crops use Benelate (Benomyl). Funginex is very good powdery mildew control fungicide and can be used on other ornamentals as well as included on the label instructions. Powdery mildew will be best controlled by an early spray even if you cant see it yet and know you had it last 10-1- 4 year. Preventing wormy cherries is an insect of another color. The fly emerges after overtwining in the soil. It matures, mates and the female deposits the eggs under the skin of cherry fruit. The control must be directed at the fly rather than at its offspring. Spraying usually begins about the time Bings turn pink. Dizinon sprayed every days until harvest will give good control. If you get all the neighbors to spray, chances of protein free cherries will be better. Curling leaves on roses and apples is usually an indication of aphids and 0 some of the vast field areas of the I can promise a large grasshopper population. Unless we get a snow storm to kill them, you should plan on spraying the very small hoppers with Diazinon or Malathion as soon as possible. Grasshoppers must eat twice his weight in food a day to survive, so the more we can get now, the less you will have to contend with later on. Another problem which you may is the tent caterpiller. These are dark colored with a double row of white spots along the back. They begin forming a web around the area they are feeding soon after leaves emerge in the spring. They will defoliate a large branch in as short week if left unchecked. Control can be difficult if the webs are sprayed without disturbing the webbing. The simplest way to control them is to prune out the infested branches and burn them or dispose of them, because the web is very difficult to spray. You can use chemical control such as malathion, diazinon or sevin. These should not be sprayed on any plants in bloom. Organic insecticides such as dipel or thuricide can be sprayed anytime. We have a problem with fireblight with our apples and pears, and if you have had the problem before, you will probably have it again, so you need to spray with streptomyacin as soon as county, ' possible. If you have a crabapple tree that you want to clean the fruit off of, you can spray the blossoms or small fruit up to 30 days from full bloom with a strong solution of Sevin. FLOODS AND YOUR GAS APPLIANCES Residents of areas prone to flooding should be cautious of their appliances, according to Steven C. Bilbao, Extension safety specialist at Utah State Unviersity. All appliances which are to submersion need water subjected prompt inspection, cleaning and replacement of controls, the specialist advises. The warning is particularly directed to heating and water heating equipment which uses natural or propane (LP) gas. "Flooding or submersions of the controls which automaticlaly turn on and off the gas supply, can lead to corrosion buildup and possible blockage of safety features within the controls," Bilbao says. gas-fire- d gas-fire- d The specialist warns that even though water damaged control systems may appear to be operating safety and properly, the gradual effects of corrosion and buildup of foreign particles inside the control devices over a period of time could make the safety features inoperative. Consumers whose gas appliances have been subjected to water immersion should immediately contact a qualified service agency, gas utility or propane distributor, Bilbao advises. SOME INTERESTING FOOD TIPS: For a delicious main course of crisp chicken, make your coating with instant mashed potatoes, Bake it to cut down on kitchen mess. Freeze bananas right in the skin and when you need a banana for a cake, salad or cereal, peel it (do not thaw). The peel will be black, but the fruit will be fresh. |