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              IPnotes, a weekly informal newsletter for the staff and faculty of Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne
'79 #8 MARCH 9
1979 GRADUATING CLASS Cap and Gown Order Days: March 21 and 22 from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and March 23 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in room 229 of the Walb Memorial Union.
IPFW COMMENCEMENT, May 14, Memorial Coliseum. For further information contact the Alumni Office, room 235, Walb Memorial Union, or telephone 482-5343.
DENTAL HYGIENE SERVICES Faculty and staff who would like to have their teeth cleaned and given the fluoride treatment should contact the dental hygiene clinic for an appointment. There is no charge for these services and the clinic is open from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Call 582-5756 for an appointment.
RAP MEETING The March gathering of the Returning Adult Place will feature Dr. Bob Barkhaus, Director of Career Development and Placement. He will discuss "Careers: Where the Jobs Are" at noon on Monday, March 26, and on Tuesday, March 27, at noon and again at 5:30 p.m. All meetings will be held in Kettler 118.
SUBOG PROGRAMS Jerry Rubin will lecture in the Walb Ballroom on Tuesday, March 20, beginning at 8:00 p.m. His topic will be the '60's. On Saturday, March 24, there will be a Film Festival featuring James Dean shown in the Ballroom beginning at 7:00 p.m.
SEMINARS Monday, March 26, "View from Within: Women in Prison." Tony Barnes, a former prison inmate now employed by Allen County Juvenile Probation, will speak about the lives of incarcerated women at the Women's Studies seminar in the Union 116, brownbag luncheon program. On March 19 from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Psi Sci and the Psychology Department will hold a seminar in the Walb Memorial Union, room 222. The topic for discussion is "Helping." A Sociology and Anthropology Forum is scheduled for March 26 in room 220 of the Walb Memorial Union. It will begin at noon and run until 1:15 p.m. Harold Linkous will present and discuss archaeological data collected by the Soc/Anth Department in the surrounding area over the past year. A Geology Colloquium will be held on March 30 in Kettler 146. It will begin at 2:30 p.m. Dr. Donald T. Secor, Jr., Chairman and Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of South Carolina will address the group. His topic will be "Model for Development of Natural Hydraulic Fractures - Implications for Hydrocarbon Migration and Accumulation." Dr. James Tobolski will address the Biology Seminar Series on March 27 on the topic of "Investigations in Pollution and Hybridization in Pines: Utilizing Isozymes as Pollen Markers." The meeting will be held in Kettler 122 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
GETTING INTO VIDEO, an LRC Seminar will be held in the TV Studio, B52, in the Library. There will be two sessions; the first session will be from 1 to 2:00 p.m., and the second session will be from 2 to 3:00 p.m. The seminar is open to Faculty, Staff, and Students.
FOR SALE A 25" RCA color TV in a maple, colonial cabinet, $165 or best offer; a size 11-12, white, silk organza bridal gown with a high neckline, Bishop sleeves, and accented with an old-fashioned apron trimmed with cluny lace. Included with the gown is a three tier silk illusion veil with a lace face trimmer. Call Brenda at 482-5811.
BRIDGE ANYONE? Two beginning bridge players are looking for 2 more to enjoy the game. Would like to get a quick bite and then play in the early evening hours back here on campus. Call Mary Trahin on 5411 for additional information. more
HO-91 Yard’n Garden Calendar DEPARTMENTS OF * HORTICULTURE * AGRONOMY * BOTANY & PLANT PATHOLOGY * ENTOMOLOGY
MARCH • APRIL Spring again! Time to think of your yard and garden. Reluctant? Don't be. Just follow the simple steps in this calendar for a green lawn, full garden, and an easy time.
MARCH Sow bluegrass seed, preferably a mixture of named types, in sunny areas if you're starting a new lawn or over-seeding. In shade mixtures add some red fescue. Mix a complete analysis fertilizer at 10 pounds per 1000 square feet, into the soil, and keep the area moist for at least three weeks or until the grass gets a good start. A light mulch of thin straw, crushed corn cobs, or peat reduces the daily need for dampening due to a reduction in moisture loss.
Fertilize your lawn. Use 1-2 pounds of a complete analysis fertilizer per 1000 square feet. Use higher amounts on undernourished lawns. If possible, have your soil tested.
Fertilize trees and shrubs after frost is out of the ground. Use 2 pounds of complete analysis fertilizer per 100 square feet of soil surface to shrub areas and 1-2 pounds per inch of trunk diameter at chest height. Spread evenly under trees. An application every 2 years is adequate.
Plant trees, shrubs -- all kinds. Decide from your overall landscape plan which ones to plant this spring. Dig a hole 12 inches wider and 6 inches deeper than the root ball. Then add enough peat-soil mixture in the hole so that the plant sits at the same depth it was originally growing. Fill the hole 2/3 full of soil. Then water to settle the soil. (Don't pack the soil with your feet -- you'll break the roots.) Coat tree trunks with an insecticide and wrap with burlap or commercial wrapping to prevent borer problems. Wrapping tree trunks also aids in the prevention of sunscald damage, especially in young, thinbarked trees. Shrubs planted in groups should be in a cultivated or mulched bed (peat, bark or other coarse mulch) for easy care.
Plant seed indoors at proper time (not too early). For example, plant snapdragons, sweet alyssum and cabbage by March 1; petunia, ageratum, and peppers by March 15; asters, salvia, and tomatoes by April 1. Treat seed before planting with a protectant fungicide if not already treated. Seeds are easy to start in vermiculite or shredded sphagnum moss. Keep moist and warm until sprouted, then give them bright light (fluorescent is best). When the seedlings are large enough to handle, transplant them into large containers for further growth. Replant them outdoors after the danger of frost has past, except for cool season crops like cabbage.
Spray roses with liquid lime sulfur (1-10) just before new buds open, for powdery mildew control and stem canker. Note: This spray may discolor stone or paint.
Plant early garden crops such as lettuce, radish, spinach. Broadcast 2-3 pounds of complete fertilizer such as 10-10-10 per 100 square feet of garden space before plowing or rototilling. After plowing, smooth with rake or by disking and harrowing. Treat seed with a protectant fungicide before planting if the seed is not already treated. Use disease-resistant varieties whenever available.
Apply dormant oil sprays to fruit and deciduous trees and shrubs for scale insects. Also apply dormant oil or malathion on young silver maples to prevent maple bladder gall.
Cooperative Extension Service • Purdue University • West Lafayette, Indiana
APRIL Control crabgrass. A well fertilized, vigorous growing turf cut no shorter than two inches is one means of reducing crabgrass infestations. Crabgrass premergence chemicals are available.
Prune trees and shrubs. For evergreens such as yews and junipers, prune each branch individually to maintain desired size and natural shape. Now is the time to prune deciduous trees and late flowering shrubs (those that flower after June 30). Prune and destroy diseased, dead or winter-damaged branches from trees and shrubs. Do not leave stubs, and apply a wound dressing to branches larger than 1-inch in diameter.
Plant new rose bushes -- care for old ones. Remove the winter mulch, prune dead wood and undesirable weak branches when weather permits, and gently hoe in 1-3 pounds of a complete fertilizer, such as 10-10-10, per 100 square feet of rose bed, or apply two heaping tablespoons per plant. Water the fertilized soil.
For roses, use bordeaux mixture spray when shoots begin to emerge. Soak the soil and shoots.
Fertilize perennials, using 5-10-5 or similar analysis at 1 1/2 pounds per 100 square feet of bed area or sprinkle small rings of fertilizer around each plant and repeat about six weeks later. (Always water after applying fertilizer to wash fertilizer off foliage and prevent fertilizer burn.)
Handpick bagworms from small trees and shrubs. These bags each contain several hundred eggs which will hatch into young bagworms about June 1.
Prepare beds for annual flowers. Spade to work in peat moss, sand and fertilizer. Add 5-10-5 at the rate of 1 1/2 pounds per 100 square feet of bed area.
Remove mulch on strawberry plants as the weather permits and before leaves turn yellow.
Protect your strawberry plants from insects and diseases with all purpose fruit dust or spray from the time blossoms start to develop until harvest.
Start fruit spray program with an all purpose spray material. Apply delayed dormant fungicide spray to rasberries for anthracnose control when leaves protrude.
Safety Use lawn and garden tools and machinery in a safe manner. Read and follow label recommendations and precautions on all pecticide, plant food, and other chemical containers.
Related publications Contact your County Extension Agent or Mailing Room, AGAD Building, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, for the latest edition of the Yard 'n' Garden Publications List. The information given herein is supplied with the understanding that no discrimination is intended and no endorsement by the Indiana Cooperative Extension Service is implied.
Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, State of Indiana, Purdue University and U. S. Department of Agriculture Cooperating. H. G. Diesslin, Director, West Lafayette, Ind. Issued in furtherance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914. It is the policy of the Cooperative Extension Service of Purdue University that all persons shall have equal opportunity and access to its programs and facilities without regard to race, religion, color, sex or national origin.