Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-04-15
From the West Virginia Farm Bulletin
Injurious Insects.
BY A. D. Hopkins, Entomologist, Agricultural
Experiment Station, Morgantown, w. Va.

BY A. D. Hopkins, EntomoIogist Agricultural
Experiment Station, Morgantown, w. Va.
Mr.. H. M. Turner, Secretary State
Board of Agriculture:
According to the request of the
president of your board, l take
pleasure in undertaking to furnish
you each month with short article
on insects, for publication in your
monthly bulletin.
In bulletin 81 of the Experiment
Station, | give an outline of general
methods for dealing with injurious in
sects. Trusting that this bulletin is
already in the hands of your readers,
l will devote my remarks for each
number of your bulletin to special
methods of dealing with the principal
pests which make their appearance in
each month, beginning with April.
shall also be pleased to answer all
inquiries from farmers and others to
the best of my ability, either through
your bulletin or by letters or questions
about insects, which require prompt
answers. | have in preparation
series of three bulletins. 1st, Farm
and Garden Insects; 2nd, Fruit In
sects; 3rd, Forest and Shade Tree
Insects. 1t is my desire to make
these bulletins as thorough as pos
sible, and the time necessary to do so
will cause some delay in their COM
pletion. am, therefore, pleased to
have this excellent opportunity of
communicating with farmers on sub
iects which require immediate at
tention, and hope that they will be
interested and avail themselves of the
opportunity of assisting in this and
other work; the results of which they
are to receive the primary benefits.
Methods Of DeaIins- viN Injurious
Insects in AbrH.
During the first of this month
much may be accomplished in the
line of preventive measures.
All trash and rubbish in gardens
and fields should be burned, thus de-
stroying great numbers Of insects
which pass the winter in such ma
terial. All dead or dying shrubs,
fruit and other trees and dead and dy-
ing branches on healthy oues, are
breeding and hiding places for in
Vulnerable pests; therefore they
should be cut and collected into large
heaps and burned and the ashes care
fully saved before teaching, to be
used around fruit trees to prevent
the attack of the borers.
In sections where the Apple Tree
Tent Caterpillars were abundant last
year, the tree should be examined be-
fore the leaves comeOut, for the clus-
ers Of eggs which will be found on the
twigs.
Unless these egg clusters are found
and destroyed, they will produce colo
MES of caterpillars which may cause
serious trouble and damage to the
trees. These egg clusters may be
more easily seen on hazy or cloudy
days.
Lice in poultry houses and in
stables and ticks on sheep are more
troublesome in this month than at
any other time Of the year. They
prevent the animals from taking on
flesh, and are the cause of much flu
ture disease and loss. Coal oil (ker-
osene) should be freely used to kill
all lice in crevices and cracks in the
buildings, by pouring it on from a
can or by applying it with an atomi-
ger or spraying apparatus. Kerosene
emulsion (see formula bulletin 21) is
one of the best known remedies for
destroying lice on animals. Itshould
be freely used when necessary.
Paris Green and London Purple,
Emulsion, White Helebore and To-
bacco in various farms are the best
insecticides, and they are applied in
various ways to suit the requirements
of the farmer, fruit grower or garden
err
These insecticides and apparatus for
applying them (Which are also de-
scribed and illustrated in bulletin 2D
should be produced this month and
everything made ready to attack the
enc m yat the first alarm.
The surest means to rid yourself OF
that distressing cough is to use DIR.
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