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Page 4 *The Kerens Tribune • July 19, 2013
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Ag Update
Small pests and prepping for second season
By Rick Hirsch
Henderson County
Extension Agent
ATHENS-Grubs and
chinch bugs are two tiny
pests that can cause quite
a bit of trouble!
For the next few weeks,
check the lawn at regular
intervals for grub worm in-
festations. These grubs are
the larvae of the small,
brown June beetle we see
flying around lighted areas
in late June, early July
The eggs are deposited
in lawns and begin to hatch
several weeks later.
Start treatment while the
grubs are small and feed-
ing actively. If you wait un-
til the damage begins to
show up, there is very little
you can do to save the
grass.
To check the lawn for
gmbs, cut out at least four
one square foot blocks of
sod, four inches deep. Ex-
amine the soil and grass
roots for gmbs. If you find
as many as three gmbs per
square foot, you should
treat the lawn.
There are effective pes-
ticides available to combat
these destmctive critters. It
is important to get these
materials washed down
into the root zone where the
grubs are feeding by imme-
diately applying one to two
inches of water. You can
easily check surface water
amounts by placing several
coffee cans about the yard
to serve as indicators.
Be sure to keep children
and pets offthe treated area
until the insecticide has been
thoroughly watered into the
soil. Be sure to follow label
directions carefully.
Early detection is the key
to success in preventing
chinch bug damage. Several
insecticides can be used to
control chinch bugs.
Homeowners can find the
insecticides in local farm
supply stores and retail nurs-
eries. The granular materi-
als are preferred for home-
owner use. Cyclone-type
lawn fertilizer applicators
work well in applying granu-
lar insecticides. Water the
lawn thoroughly following
granular applications.
Sprays are effective, but
require more time and ef-
fort. Water the lawn thor-
oughly before spraying.
To determine if your
lawn problem is chinch
bugs, take a large can
(about a two to three
pound coffee can) and cut
both ends out. Press the
can through the grass into
the soil about 3 inches.
Select a spot where both
dead and green grass is
present. Do not select a
spot where grass is com-
pletely dead or completely
green.
Run water into the can till
it stands full of water. If
chinch bugs are present,
they will pop to the top of
the water within five min-
utes or sooner.
If you are not sure what
kind of bug you found,
bring it to the Extension of-
fice in abottle of alcohol for
identification.
The second season
Removing old plants
from the spring home gar-
den now is beneficial in sev-
eral ways.
Destroying residue from
crops reduces the number
of insects, the chance for
disease and, if remnants are
added to the compost pile,
can give the gardener or-
ganic material to add to
next year’s garden.
Old plants give insects a
“home” until new plants
emerge. Harmful insects
such as mites, aphids and
spider mites die when the
old plants are removed.
By reducing the number
of plants, gardeners also
can decrease the occur-
rence of several types of
diseases, including some
blights and fruit rot that al-
ready are existing in the
spring garden. You can till
the old plants under or pull
them up.
Pulled plants can be
gathered and added to a
compost pile. Tempera-
tures in a compost pile can
get as high as 150 degrees
Fahrenheit, destroying ev-
erything - including insects
and diseases - inside it.
For a successful fall gar-
den, you can ’t wait until fall
to get started. Soil prepa-
ration, fertilizing and plant-
ing will have to be done dur-
ing the heat of the summer.
Like preparation for a
spring garden, fall gardens
benefit from generous
amounts of organic matter
such as hay, peat moss,
shredded leaves, grass clip-
pings, compost, barnyard
manure or even shredded
newspaper.
A three to four inch layer
of organic matter is neces-
sary to physically change
the structure of the soil. Till
the material into the garden
at least six to eight inches
deep. Fertilizer also should
be applied at the same
time.
If your soil is high in
phosphorus or you used a
high phosphoms fertilizer
such as 10-20-10 in the
spring, then nitrogen is
probably all you will need
to add for the fall.
About 1 pound of a high
nitrogen fertilizer, such as
ammonium sulphate or am-
monium nitrate, can be
used for each 100 square
feet of garden area. This
can be broadcast on top of
the organic matter and all
tilled in together.
After the summer soil
preparation, August to
early September is the time
to plant most vegetables for
the fall harvest.
Many vegetables per-
form better under Texas fall
weather conditions. Crops
such as green beans, cu-
cumbers and squash need
to be planted early so that
harvest is completed by the
time the first frost occurs.
To request a fall veg-
etable planting schedule,
visit your County Extension
office in Athens.
Important dates
• Year Around Color
From Flowering Bulbs,
Thursday, July 18, at Heri-
tage Hall at the First United
Methodist Church, in
Chandler. Free of charge.
Speaker is Henderson
County Master Gardener
JeanBrewton.
• Hunter Education Class
at 6 p.m. Friday, July 26
and 8 am. Saturday, July
27 at the Texas Freshwa-
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F or more information or
to enroll, call (903) 676-
2277.
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Wednesday, Aug. 5-7 at
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College Station.
Comptroller returns $1 billion to Texas unclaimed property owners
Special to the Tribune
AUSTIN-Texas
Comptroller Susan Combs
announced today she has
returned $1 billion in un-
claimed property to right-
ful owners since she took
office in 2007. This is the
largest sum of money ever
returned by aTexas Comp-
troller.
“ When I took office in
January 20071 was com-
mitted to return as much
uncl aimed money as pos-
sible to owners who may
have forgotten about it,”
Combs said. “We
launched extensive out-
reach efforts and stream-
lined processes to help re-
unite more owners with
their money.”
The Comptroller pre-
sented Austin firefighter
Greg Reddish with
$2,009.64 today, which
took total payments across
the landmark threshold.
Approximately 1.1 mil-
lion claims have been ap-
proved since 2007 total-
ing $1 billion over six and
a half years. Unclaimed
property payments began
in 1962, and approxi-
mately $900.8 million was
returned in the 44 years
prior to Combs taking of-
fice.
The Comptroller added
new features in the claims
process and expanded
outreach efforts to increase
the amount of returned
money. They include:
• An automated-review
process for claims up to
$5,000 that matches infor-
mation in online claim
forms to data in the un-
claimed property system in
order to expedite those
claims,
• Access to a dynamic
public records database to
help efficiently verily claim-
ants and speed up approv-
als - decreasing the time
to pay claims filed by origi-
nal owners from 45 days
to about 20 days,
• Grass roots staff that
sets up at events such as
expos, the Texas State Fair
and events with county
treasurers to help Texans
find and claim their un-
claimed property on the
spot,
• Improvements to the
Unclaimed Property
website that make it easier
for claimants to identify and
submit a claim for property,
• Annual notification let-
ters to owners of certain
types of property valued
$ 100 or more that was re-
ported to the state in the
preceding year,
• Brochures in libraries
promoting the unclaimed
property program website
phone number.
Unclaimed property in-
cludes forgotten utility de-
posits or other refunds, in-
surance proceeds, payroll
checks, cashier’s checks,
dividends, mineral royalties,
dormant bank accounts
and abandoned safe deposit
box contents. Businesses
turn over property to the
unclaimed property pro-
gram after the property
they’re holding has been
dormant for generally be-
tween one to five years.
“We will continue our ef-
forts to get as much money
back into the right hands,”
said Combs. “I encourage
people to search our
website at any time or call
us to see if they have
money waiting for them and
start the process of getting
that money back. After all,
it’s your money!”
There is no statute of limi-
tations for unclaimed prop-
erty' the state is holding,
which means there is no
time limit for owners to file
a claim - they can do so at
anytime.
To search for unclaimed
property and begin the
claims process, visit the
Comptroller’s Unclaimed
Property website at
www.ClaimItTexas.org, or call
1-800-654-FIND (3463).
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