I was observing the tent caterpillars on trees at SUNY at Binghamton this spring, and I advised them to put the treated burlap barriers on the trees to kill the caterpillars as was being done at the Binghamton Courthouse at the time. They failed to follow my advice; thus the caterpillars severely decimated a lot of trees. As a result of this I have concluded that this is probably what the whole dieback scenario is all about. Dieback is merely a defense mechanism of the tree. Once a good percentage of the leaves are eaten, the tree will selectively die back in order to survive. All of the listed causes of dieback are probably merely symptoms. Ask and I will tell you great and hidden things you do not know. Yours truly, Bobby Meade Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture '76 rsm86 (at) cornell.edu No personal emails get thru at this address. Go Figure.

Also from Ithaca: I was looking for my Chemical Modus Operandi article of 2001, and I found it inaccessible. I believe that is where I described the following: "When I lived in Slaterville, they dumped such an incredible amount of sulphuric acid that it was burning the leaves and killing all the maples in Ithaca. I would have to ride a bike with a breathlyzer with the filters covered with wet cloths attached with rubber bands. The Plant Pathology Department said that it was a virus, so I named it, the Gad-damned Gar Gan Virus after the tribes of Gar and Gan, which were added to the Green Bibles of the early sixties; i.e. the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. It turns out that many of the Nazis that came to this country from Germany had assumed names with Gar and Gan as the first three letters. Don't larf!" As I have written, these chemicals, calcium, sulphur, acid, anthrax, arsenic, phosgene, wormwood, asbestoes, etc. cause numerous ailments such as diabetes, Alzheimers, flu, Parkinson, asthma, whooping cough, thyroid disorders, pneumonia, etc. Consider also that this arises from "Hitler's Health Care", for they used the concentration camps to determine what effects many chemicals had on people, and most of the resulting information has been suppressed so that the medical field may prey on people. The medical profession is set up to treat these ailments without regard to the cause. If you mention the chemicals, you are likely to be picked up for having delusions. I have mentioned most of these things in my articles, which were listed in Bush Daddy Ramifications; but I could not access it by Googling the title. (I have seen BD Ramifications several times, and I find that they have changed some of the titles or made them inaccessible.) My makeshift air filter, which is made by strapping a T-shirt to a box fan and keeping it wet with baking soda and water is still the best solution that I have for chemical onslaught. Today there is news of an asthma epidemic in NYC. Are they too stupid to move for survival? The last time that I heard of any attempt to filter the air using water was in the early sixties; thus they continue to sell air filters that do not do a thing about acid in the air. It eats the lungs! It has no smell and little taste. Pain in the lungs comes when there is acid in the air once the damage has begun. Emphysema is the end result. A box fan on high speed can remove all acid within seconds! When you can taste it in the air again, you have to wet the cloth on the fan with the soda and water solution again. Of course Hitler's Health Care will be too happy to treat only the symptoms of what ails you. "When I was just a little boy, standing to my Daddy's knee; my Daddy said, "Son don't let the man get you and do what he done to me!..."" (ref. Gone to Be a Soldier in the Army of the Lord! ****) BroBubbaBob