The Delaware farm and home. (Wilmington, Del.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-24

repanted Corn planted two timothy
sod suffered the greatest injury is very probable these
insects breed III timothy Sod but yet has discovered
their breeding places.
notice that the elm in this section have not
suffered much usual from the attacks of the emleaf
beetle would suggest spraying early in the
with arsenes destroy the adult beetles when they
first begin to feed upon the leaves They feed upon the
leaves for several days before they deposit their and
the badly injured if the larvae destroyed
they hatch from the eggs.
The black peach aphis, Abats berstco-ulge has not
caused any damage peach the past that we
of although they present in small numbers
upon trees III some sections
The melon aph and also the aphis were found in
places. The former very numerous upon melon
and cucumber vines, and almost impossible to
good growth of vine that The present
shall the effect of bsulphide of carbon upon them
Our attention called to the attacks of the strawberry
aps upon strawberry plants in the vicinity of Felton,
De by the following letter from MI George c. Herring:
Last spring year ago bought farm Of orty-two
acres and half miles east of Felton, for the purpose of
truck farming was told by the former owner that straw
berries would not grow the land did not believe it
but ahead and prepared patch of about to
start The land Of sandy formation With red clay
subsoi The land had produced crop OF corn the previous
Il manfred the land very heavily with stable manure,
and early in April powed it as deep as the soil would allow
and after thorough narrowing set the plants putting
them in four feet apart and from sixteen to eighteen
inches apart down the rows.
less Bubach Haverand Warfed No Miche's Early, and
berry obtained the previous season from the far South the
of which l never learned
"The plants lived we'll and started grow very nicely
bout the 18th Of May noticed something the natter
sometpes tepots would be eight square, andS
ssnlewses much eighth Of would be affected
When the plant ceased to grow it would remain stand
still for few days and then the tip ends of the leaves would
begin to dry up In about week ten days the plant
would be dead and dry hay. When you examined a
plant you could nothing the matter with it. except they
had put out growis, and that the roots dry
put out two little roots from oneha to inch long
Sometimes the plants would put out four five and
then die, as the others had done.
''They continued to die till cold weather This spring
those that survived looked pretty WE'LL and got 1903
quarts, where ought to have got 4, 500 to 5000
five miles apart and all of them large nice plants
You
had all of the berry-growers in the neighborhood to
come and examine the patch None of them have
anything like and no could tell anything about it.
last spring SET OUT anonef Palen o. tw9 ana one-nli
May Fully oneha of the plants dead and the patch
going exactly the other The plants ali fare
about alike. The Warheld however, seemed to be the
tenacious of life, but yields to the inevitable
'he growers here advised apply to you if
YOU throw any light upon the case.
would it be too much trouble for you to examine
Of the plants with the aid of powerful glass such you
have the station, to analyze some of the soils"
We visited Mr. Herngs strawberry field the latter part
Of August, and found it III very bad condition.
The plants had made very little growth and but few
young plants had started from the runners large proper
on Of the plants that set in the spring after having set
few young plants had died, together with the young
plants and there many spots in the field
None of the plants appeared be making growth and
were barely keeping alive We examined the plants in
various parts of the field but could find traces of insects
upon them, although searched carefully for the root
aphis.
Mr. w E. Killen had field of strawberries that had
dying in the but had not been badly
affected. We found insects upon the plants in MI.
Kiens field but about mile from there in Mr. Moores
field found the root aphis in great numbers. We
considerably puzzled to account for the trouble in Mr.
Hengs and Mr. Killens strawberry fields the closest
scrutiny did reveal any of insects upon the plants
We examined the strawberry plants in Mr. Herngs field
again August 31st and found very few small aphides
upon nearly evrey plant examined They very small
and evidently had made their appearance upon the plants
since our former examination.
At first thought the attack of this root aphis
confined to comparatively small but upon further
investigation such does not appear have been the
We hear of its attacks in various parts of the State!
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