The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-07-16
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Fort Scott Herald; Our FARMERS are
not near so badly panic stricken about
the ravsges of the web worm as they
were a week ago.
| Wichita Eagle: Farmers are gratified
to see that the recent rain has annibila-
ted the worms that had commenced to
ravage the late corn and that no serious
damage has resulted from their appear
ance.
| Augusta Gazette: The wheat in But
Ter county is now being harvested. The
stand is thin, but the heads are long and
and grains well filed. The only Injury
occurring TO it sinceswInter was caused
| by rust-a few fields being badly hurt by
| il.
Commonwealth: Many farmers in
Sedgwick county report wheat yield OF
| from twenty TO thirty bushels per acre.
some, of course will fall below the low
est figure of the above statement. Taken
as whole the yield in Sedgwick county
is rtppIted to be very fair.
Salina Herald. Much of the fall
wheat In the county was pioWed up last
spring and put into corn and oats. Prob
| ably one-half of the wheat is not worth
cutting. Much of it was winter killed,
while in some sections the Hessian fly
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A considerable portion of last years
crops was kept over.
Clay Center Dispatch: This year the
wheat crop will not demand much labor
or time, and haying may be begun carly
In July. The price at which hay sold
last winter and this spring ought to con-
vince enY one of the importance of this
crop and stimulate grass owners to extra
zeal in garnering the prairie hay that
grows unbidden in every field.
FL Dorado Republ lean: We will
have larger corn crop this year than
we ever had, the acreage being much
greater. Our oat crop will be one humid
rcd per cent larger than ever before
The acreage of wheat being small we
will not have hall so many bushels but
prices Will be better. Grass is fine;
stock in excellent condition and all
things considered the outlook for boun-
it'll crops was never better.
Wichita Eagle: A stool of wheat was
sent to this office yesterday from the
farm OF &. F. Coleman, which stands up
to mans chm and which is estimated,
SO tine party said who delivered 1t, to 20
close on 10 thirty bushels to the acre.
MIR. Coleman has one hundred and four
acres of the wheat which at even twen-
tY-five bushels would yield him, gross,
two thousand SIX hundred bushels. We
fear the yield is over estimated.
Sedan Graphic: There is no doubt but
the worm now SO destructive here TO the
corn is identical with the cotton worm OF
the south. The government entomolo-
gist, IN his report Tor 1880, gives illus
| Iration and a minute description OF the
worm and moth SO numerously present
in this and adjoining counties and per-
haps elsewhere. There seems to be no
| practicable remedy yet discovered, and
the only course Tor US to pursue is to let
them alone and take care of what is left
when they are gone. We copy as fol-
| lows from the report: In those corn
states which do not grow cotton, It is
greatly dreaded. Whole crops are Iu-
med in Kansas, Kentucky, South Illinois
and Missouri and scarcely q year
passes without much damage being done.
| According to Riley, there are two brOods
of the worms year in those states, and
very early and very late corn fare the
worst, the intermediate varieties usually
escaping severe injury. In seasons OF
protracted length third brood is some
times produced, which for want of other
food, lives upon the kernels OF well.
ripened ears. The Columbus Advocate,
after making investigation with regard
to the worm, says: The green cotton
worm is the product OF a white miller
which lays its eggs in great numbers
The worm in turn becomes chrysalls
and then a miller. The miller
will then deposit Its eggs
and in September or ABOUT that time we
shall. have millions OF cotton worms
again. When they work on cotton they
do not always destroy il. So with corn.
We have seen q great many pieces oi
corn which were badly damaged that
have commenced to grow, although Q
part of the blade and stalk had beer
eaten up. The worms will often attack
a field OF corn or other vegetation and
clean it out entirely, but will not iDtest
an adj Joining tract. The worm is not {
migratory animal 1t does not go from
one field 10 another. Wherever the mil
Ter deposits its eggs there the worm il
Matched and there it puts IN its life work
The miller attends to the migration anC
passes from one part OF the country u
another. Wherever the miller lights
there the worm is Matched, and so fields
near by escape We estimate tina
about one fourth of the fields o
corn have been infested by
the worm. Some fields hav:
been wholly destroyed and others slight
ly damaged. We would say that where
| they have attacked netu OF corn tneI
have on the average destroyed abou
half of it, Then about oneeighth of ihi
large corn crop has been destroyed. II
this damage were equally divided among
all our farmers, the results would no
be SO serious But the entire crop o.
some is eaten up, while others entirel.
escaped, Some fields which have beer
considered ruined. will recuperate large
ly by the rains. The main damage ha
been to corn. Oats seem to be the onl.
crop which has entirely escaped damag
from insects The chiDtz bugs hav
: worked on wheat. The recent rain
will stay their raVages ia adjoinini
, corn fields. The acreage of wheat wi
be one-third less than last year, and viii
average from to bushels to the acre
, 1t IS generally of a good berry. Man
/ fields were so ripe that the rains vii
knock the wheat down and result II
| some loss.