The Vineyard

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September/October 1975
John Vivian 
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Even milky spore disease's most ardent fans admit that the effect is slow to take hold, and we still have more beetles than we'd like. But they do seem to become fewer each summer. Last year was the first time I didn't have to cover the best grape clusters with plastic bags till the Japanese beetles left. Perhaps next year they will be nothing more than an occasional curiosity.

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If anyone is thinking that sixty dollars is a lot of folding money to spend getting a two-acre plot of sod rid of just one kind of bug, I might agree. But the cash and environmental savings are a lot greater than if we used whatever poisons they dream up to replace DDT over the next decade or so. And besides, I consider that money something of an investment in all our futures. Milky spore will spread out slowly from wherever it's applied and sooner or later the spread from ours will meet the spread from someone else's. The more folks use the stuff, the faster Japanese beetles will come under natural biological control, the better and easier will be gardening for us all, and there will be just one less excuse for the chemical companies to claim their poisons are the only thing keeping the human race from starvation.

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