The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-01

The careful farmer has already COM
menced the fight with insect life, with
the full knowledge that it must be kept
up until harvest time, If he would reap
a full crop of either fruit or vegetables.
Almost every year brings to light some
new enemy; but man tires not; he exerts
himself to find some remedy for each
successive new destructive enemy and
Just as he begins to congratulate him
self on being able to fully protect some
favorite fruit or choice vegetable from
all of its enemies, some new enemy more
difficult to destroy appears. Thus far
the race between the appearance of new
destructive insects and mans advancing
intelligence is kept about equal. BY
constant efforts and eternal vigilance
man is thus far able to protect the fruits
and vegetables of the earth to degree
necessary to furnish him with an album
dance of food. But should he for few
seasons cease his efforts to check the
ravages of the multitude Of insects, he
would soon come short of many lux
uries, if indeed he did not have to submit
| to short rations of the substantial things
of life.
One of the latest new corners on the
| Atlantic coast of destructive insects, that
lives on human food is large white or
| prayish worm, that eats its way into the
| ears of corn Just before it hardens. This
promises to be not only very destruc-
| tive enemy, but one very difficult to de-
stroy. Should it spread over the vast
cornfields of the West it would destroy
hundreds of millions of bushels of corn;
already it has made a beginning that
looks serious indeed; it spreads rapidly,
and is now found scattered from the
pr1iries of the West to the Atlantic coast.
! Every farmer should be careful to plant
i corn grown in sections where this enemy
is not found, so if the eggs are in any
way attached to the corn, they may avoid
introducing 80 undesirable an enemy; but
we are inclined to the opinion that the
eprs are not laid until summer, and the
dangeris in Transporting the grub. Unit
/ we know more of the habits OF this en-
|. euay every precaution should be taken K
4 avoid it: its habits should be carefully
studied the coming season. that we ma
be better able to ind remedy.
i Among the creeping enemies OF tn
Il garden there are few more destructive o.
4 more difficult to manage than the gra.
cut-worm, who seems to take pride u
i cutting down whole row OF beans or
a dozen hills of cucumbers. This enem!
must be dug out very early In the morn
|, ING and destroyed; as he works only il
the night he is very near the surface q
sunrise.
4 Among the bugs that fill the air tn
rose bug tries cur patience about a
much as any; while he is not particula
!, what he eats, he is sure to get our mos
: beautiful roses, and also our choices
punches of grapes as soon, or even DC
fore, the bloom is of; If we have som
new choice variety of apples he is sur
, I to try the flavor Of them as soon as the
are as large as bullets, and though the
may be as hard as lead and as bitter 9
q button pear, he eats away upon ther
! with the same apparent relish he does Q
aschoice rose. Hand picking early j
81 the morning is the surest remedy for thl
!, enemy.
ri The farmer who is determined to sue
/ coed must steel his heart against inset
j life, and fight them with every weapo
i | his ingenuity can devise; but after dom
) his best he win have to lose . portion
his profits by the creeping things OF II
rfh,--Massaclnsetfs Pou1hnaan.