The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03

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two sides to stakes six or seven feel
long. The cotton sheet is to be wet
in coal oil and the stakes to which ii
is nailed driven into the ground tol
tive. We inches or so. The trough
containing the water and oil must
be placed exactly under the edge OF
the sheet so that insects flying agalns'
| the sheet will fall into the trough
| Two lanterns or lamps with refectors
must be placed on the ground-ont
on each side of the shetland the re
Electors arrange I so as to throw a fuI
glare upon the sheet Tae moths fly
only at twilight and during the early
o .rt of the night. They are strongly
attracted by light and the Illuminated
sheet will attract hundreds or thou
| sands Of them. One trap such as that
Just described will suffice for six acres.
The lantern need not be lighted on
moonlight nights nor kept burning
after midnight.
If instead of attacking the moths
the farmer prefers to wait until the
caterpillars have ragged the weed,
be has then choice of the Paris
green and kerosene emulsion remedies
Paris green may be applied dry, using
one pound of the poison mixed with
| 20 pounds of wheat -four and 60
pounds of lime or road dust and
busted on from a bag or a tin pail
vita perforated bottom. Use one
half to one pound of Paris green
per acre according to the size Of the
| plants and abundance of caterpillars.
This must be renewed after heavy
rains. If applied wet, mix three,
quarter pound OF Paris green and 10
pounds -four in one barrel of water
and spray from a tank, or dash the
liquid on the plants Ov mean of a
broom or wisp of twigs. The dry
way of applying the poison is the
suresG but takes more time than when
applied wet. The kerosene emulsion
made and applied precisely as recon
mended in the case of plant lice is the
best, surest and cheapest remedy for
the caterpillar, 1t must be remem
bered that the emulsion kills by touch
and must be made t touch the body
of the caterpillar. There are many
excellent portable sprayers to be car
ried on the back, and among the best
are the Eureka and Vermorel spray
ers which cost about $2l each. But
almost any cooper or carpenter can
fit up a barrel on a cart with a tin
fan sprayer behind. The outlet holes
should be very small so as not to
waste the liquid.
The cotton caterpillar and moth
have many natural enemies which
should be protected by the planter.
Among these are the red ants so
plentiful in dry fields. These catch
and kill numbers of the caterpillars.
Bats, our native birds-not sparrows
-oppossums, coons, Lizards and
toads also eat the moths and are true
friends of the cotton planter.
THE BOIL, BUD OR CORN WORM-HefO
this armigeYa.
The boil worm, bud worm and corn
worm are the same species. This in
sect is very closely related to the cot.
ton moth just described, but unlike
that insect it is a native pest, and
ranges from the Gulf to the Great
Lakes. 1t is very destructive in the
corn fields of the Western States. 1t
J passes the winter in the dormant or
pupa state in a burrow in the ground.
While in this condition it is often
frozen solid, but thaws out in the
spring and seems nothing the worse
? for It's cool rest during winter. AS it
is with us all the time, this pest is really
more to be feared in this State than
is the cotton caterpillar. Besides cot.
ton this worn feeds upon corn, toma
toes, beans, melons and almost any.
thing that will furnish a bite The
t winged moth issues early in spring
from the pupa which have passed the
winter in the ground. The female
lays from 200 to 500 eggs and the
. first brood are always laid on the
l leaves of young corn plants. The
eggs is about n half the size of the
t egg Of the cotton moth, AMI like that
eggs it is ribbed and basket shaped
The color is light green.
= REMEDIES.
f The boil worm is a ~corn-eating IN
r sect by preference, and a cotton eater
only by necessity. The best proven
g tive Of its damages 70 cotton is plant
e ing throughout the cotton field a row
: Of corn-preferably sweet corn-fol
every ten rows Of cotton, and hand
+ picking the worms from the corn
t Ths eggs will be laid on the leaves 0,
the corn and the presence of the
worms a be told by the ragging
The worms themselves will be founc
most frequently inside the sheaths Of
e the ragged leaves or in the young
ears whose silks are prematurel1