The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-06-25
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| before its settlement by civilized man,and
even thereafter until it becomes PARTIAL J
inhabi ed, animal, bird and insect life is
kept tolerablc uniform by the preying Of
the stronger upon sthe weaker. AS the
settlement progresses. gwild beasts ale
destroy ed, then birds. and this without
discrimination between those destructive
and beneficial. Insects, however, from
their insignificance, escape and soon
multiply in such numbers as often to
destroy the crops in whole regions Of
country. When too lase, efforts are made
seldom successfully, to reduce their num-
bors, or partially prevent their depreda~
tions. Herceforth, the farmer, the gard
ner and the orchardist, are at the mercy
of these insidious foes, as much as at the
mercy of the elements.
one of the most difficult class of these
insect enemies to- overcome is the cucullo;
their determination is i'm possible, even if
communities and neignborhoods would
efectually cooperate. Notwithstanding
the fact that the plum is one of the
hardest Of our fruits, one which, IL it
were not for this depreciation, would bear
uniform crops of fruit, it has been pretty
nearly driven from our market, and
many others of the stone fruits arc yearly
seriously injured by this BEETLE, The
strawberry has become uncertain in many
sections from the attacks of the crown
borer and the Larvae of the May BEETLE;
canker worms defoliate our apple trees;
the Larvae of the codsling moth ceriously
deteriorate the fruit and the Colorado
beetle, IN some seasons, so reduces the
potato crop as to place this valuable and
indispensable esculent beyond the reach
of those very persons to whom it is an
important article of food.
We have, heretofore, shown how these
latter pests may be successfully overcome
although at considerable expense. IF
every farmer understood the necessity of
cooperative effort for their destruction
insect destroying would soon.cease to be
more than an insignificant percentage in
the~cost of producing the crop: The
beetles must be taken from the young
vines, before they lay their eggs. Not
by ore, or a dozen individuals, in
peighborhood, but by every person far
and near else. onld those persons who,
by dint of constant labor, prevent the
beetles from depositing their eggs, get
pay for the trouble and expense of the
crop.
So, with the can ker worm, the matur
female must be prevented from crawl inc
up the tree and depositing her eggs
among the branches, by encasing the
trunks with something containing viscous
substance which the females cannot pass.
Ths larvae of the c>dling moth must be
from entering the fruit by
means Of cloth bands or other devices
about the body of the tree under which
the larva will gather and where they
may be destroyed. In cose of the canker
worm, the perseveripg horticultur'st is
not 80 much at the mercy of his more
indolent neighbors, for he can keep bis
trees clear with hard work independent
of them.
With the curculio. it isdiffereut, Tsehe
snout- beetles not only fly readily when so
di. posed, but, like the Colorado pest, they
fly comparatively long distances, ana
depre6ations are extended through con-
siderable lengch time, Neyerth eless
they may be overcome by persistent work;
but their destruction one year gives no
immunity the next. They attack nearly
if not quite, all the stone frxits, VIII en-
prevented from working on their f4vorite
and natural fruit, and are, therefore,
ready for work, notwithstanding their ex-
termination from the plum.
20 accomplish this in the best manner,
we believe there better than the
arrangement of q DR.. e. S.
Hull. of Alton, H., which, we
believe, be has never patented. We
have heretofore described this machine
but again give short description. tits
simply light framework, disaed toward
the middle and su fficiently large to
correspond nearly with the outside
circumference of the trees,and which nav
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