Hamden Hall Country Day School - Perennial Pine Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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The Glorles of a Victory Gardenq Have you ever had a victory garden? If you have, you probably had to wage war against hundreds of garden pests as I have. My two most dangerous enemies are cutworms and crows. The chief delica- sies of cutworms are young peas, beans, and cucum- bers. One night when my peas were about three inches tall the cutworms attacked, killing many plants by eating them through at their bases. The next day I counter-attacked and annihilated about twenty cutworms. This did not oven the score though, so every day I would send out a searching party for them, my five year old sister and I being the searching party. There was not much fighting for a couple of weeks until my young corn was seized by the crow air force. They landed and were just finishing their delicious breakfast when I made my appearance. Although they had powerful numbers they were un- doubtedly frightened to see such a strange foe. They retreated, leaving my cornpatch cornless. It looked as if they had brought spoons and dug holes two inches in diameter at the root of each plant. They had eaten not only the tender green stalks but also the roots. Again there was a period of silence although there was a little fighting between the cutworms and me, the cutworms trying to eat the cucumber and melon plants. During this period I built a scare-crow and had no more trouble with crows. When the tomatoes were full grown, they were sabotaged by a platoon of huge green worms camou- flaged to match the tomatoes' foliage. They were very destructive and chewed scores of branches off before I discovered them. The only thing I could do to destroy them was to pick them off one by one. It took mo some time to capture them all, but I did.

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During my search for those cursed worms, Mexican bean beetles invaded my bean patch. I was sure I could overcome this new menace, so I get out my rotenone, poison dust for bugs, and dusted my beans. I thought I had killed them, but they had scurried beneath the leaves, the only place I didn't dust. A few days later they were chewing the leaves again. This time I dusted the bottoms of the leaves, the tops, and the ground around the plants. I had conquered another menace. My allies, the birds, were not at peace, for they had eaten more of my enemies than I had killed by 'modernn methods. ' Wise men say you learn by experience. I cer- tainly must be well qualified to conquer any army of garden pests that may descend upon my victory garden. Larry Freeman - '46 THE AUTOBIOGRLPHY OF A JEEP Before I was born I was way down in the earth. One day I heard voices. A shovel picked me up, threw me into a little car, and carried me into the broad daylight. I was later transferred into a Ranger car that carried me to the city. I was then put into a very hot furnace, There I was melted into a liquid. I was poured into moulds and then shipped to another factory where I was made into parts and shipped to an assembly plant. There I was put together. At last I was born! I was greased and had tires put on me. Then I got some water which I had tasted before. They gave me a delicious drink which I found out was called gasoline. Most imp- ortant was my tost drive. I passed that perfectly. Then I was put on a boat bound for North Africa. Jrck Curtis GFSGU VI-.