THE MORNING began

innocently

enough; sleeping

through the alarm, toast, coffee, a look at the morning
news, and then they went outside.

It was hideous; covered in scars
as though some horrible disease
had left a trail of devastation and
permanent injury. Scattered
amongst the wreckage were
craterous pock marks where living
tissue had been ripped out in
chunks.

The apparent peace of the night
before belied the destruction facing
them now. Noticing only a few low

flyers in the evening, lightly
touching down and then rising off
of the lawn, and the dog howling
later at night, they had no clue as
to the cause of the disaster, Or did
they?

If any of the previous scenario
of horror seems remotely familiar
then it is likely that you too have
had a close encounter with Tipula
Paludosa,

Ciean up financially
while cleaning house

CLEANING HOUSE can help pay
for your redecorating, says author
Tony Hyman.

‘*Nearly everyone owns a few
old things which can be sold to
help cover the cost of the new,”’
according to Hyman.

“The key is to find the most
valuable stuff you no longer want,
and then sell it for the very best
Price you can get."’

When parents clean out the junk.

their children left behind, Hyman
warns not to discard toys just
because they're not very old. ‘‘Five
of the 10 most valuable baseball
cards date from the 1950s and
dolls from the 1960s and ‘70s —
including Miss Revlon, Tressy and,
of course, Barbie — have become
collectible.’’

A set of 1960s plastic doll fur-
niture recently sold for $1,100, and
the market for GI Joe, Star Trek,
and board games derived from TV
shows is climbing steadily.

According to Hyman, some

Beatles records sell for 100 times
the value of Caruso discs, and
many comic books are worth $500
or more.

“If mom had disposed of my
comics properly,’’ Hyman said
sadly during a recent TV interview,
“they would have more than paid
for the rug, wallpaper and fur-
niture she put in when I left home.

“*ttems don't have to be old,
rare or expensive to be valuable in
today's: collectible market,’ he
points out. ‘‘Old tobacco tins sell
for as much as $2,500 and some
paperback books are worth $50
each!’’

The key to selling these items for
top dollar is reaching the best
buyers, Hyman says.

‘*Most things can’t be sold local-
ly for more than a fraction of their
real value, That's why most yard
sales are real money losers. It's
easier and far more profitable to
dispose of your stuff over the
phone or through the mail.’

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Better known as the European
cranefly, marsh cranefly, flying
daddy-long-legs, or, in the Jarval
stage, the leatherjacket, this insect
does enormous datnage to our
lawns every year.

Now is the time we see the inno-
cum looking adults; long-legged,
clumsy, and seemingly harmless (in
fact, they are— only the larvae
cause damage}. We see them dane-
ing across our lawns late in the
evening and occasionally blunder-
ing indoors to be caught and tor-
tured by young children.

But refrain from offering your
sympathies too quickly; for their
offspring are the nasty-looking,
brown-grey, one to 1% inch,
worm-like maggots we occasionally
have the misfortune of finding just
below the soil surface in our lawns
und gardens,

These vile-looking creatures
hatch over the fall and winter from
eggs Which those harmless-looking
adults are laying now,

From the time of hatching until
they go through metamorphosis
and become adults once again,
they are cating the fine, feeder
roots of your lawn as well as those
of soung seedling flowers and
vegetables,

The resulting damage, in the
case of lawns, can be seen as ir-
regular patches of dead, brown
grass while damaged seedlings will

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expire completely. But this is
minor compared to damage done
by raccoons which will tear up the
lawn looking for a succulent meal.

lam often asked to offer con-
sultation to some *‘poor old soul’
who has purchased turf from some
disreputable sod farm that sells it

suggest you capture a number of
crows, chickens, or ducks, train
them to lunch on leatherjackets,
and then tether them out on the
grass.

You should be prepared to
replace them occasionally as the
raccoons do not enjoy having

over the

garden gate

by

by the square yard and the accom-
panying maggots by the pound.

Every day the P.O.S. rolls out
his turf only to have it rofled up
again every night by hungry rac-
coons. I hear of them trying to
stake jit down, throwing netting
over it, buying dogs, and even
staying aut all night with guns.

As usual there is an easier
method — that is if vou are not
opposed to the timely application
of pesticides where and when they
are needed. If you are then I would

Geoff Tobiasson

company to dinner and when you
finally give up, you can resort to
the chemical solution.

Mix 1 oz. (30 mi.) of diazinon
12.5% E.C. with | gallon (4.54 [.)
of water and apply this to 1000
square feet (92.94 square meters).
The best time for this application
tends to be near the end of
Sepiember into early October.

Good luck, and should you have
any questions I can be reached
through the offices of the North
Shore News.

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