New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-28
FIGHTING PESTSIN THE PARKS
DIR sOUTHWICK HAS AN INCREASED
FORCE.

SEW CARTS AND ADDITIONAL MEY NEEDED To
SAVE THE rREEs-rHE DIFFERENT
KINDS OF ISsECTs FOUND
The inroal. II the insects on the parks and gar
,lens ~ Nes-York have FOR the time being almost
ceased but Ike B'rer Rabbit. the little pest Is only
"lylns low" and In fortnight II viii be DOING
greater havoc than ever.
The damage already seen done by csierpillars
matched from eggs laid last fail These have all
fed turned into larvae. bred new batch OF moths
and beetles that have laid their eggs everywhere
These eggs will be ONT IN few days. and where
month ago a thousand caterpillars might have been
counted there will soon be million. That IL. n
,h.v ar. nUow.i 10 have their own apd
every ire. viii stripped ~ ia foliage except the
nrs Tn. caterpillar does not banker after turpen-
TIM. The Park Department. however. l. making
strenuous effort prevent the coming invasion.
Three weeks ago The Tribune called the attention
- IN, public the Inadequate means which DR..
souihwick the entomologist OF Central Park. had
10 nght the pest. II. then had ono sprinkng cart
and Two Now more than nfty men have been
detailed 20 scrape 'hc OF cocoons and and
there are three Trinkling carts. The number OF
carts Is si Inadequate. A little extra money spent
on a Few carts would hundreds ~ the fines,
trees that now dying owing to their lungs, the
leaves. being eaten NJ year after year
FOUR METHODS OF WARFARE.
speaking abou, his hard fight against the leafeating
pests said:
There are four ways OF lighting the insect
enemies 10 our trees. First. every tree should be
thoroughly cleaned during the winter months. That
IT, the bark should be thoroughly scraped with wire
brushes and all eggs and larvae destroyed Sec
ondly. the trees should be thoroughly sprinkled
with London purple they come out In
leaf In the spring. This II thoroughly done. Will
save every tree. but II this is neglected. then.
thirdly when the catcrpilars ARE swarmns over
the tree shake the boughs with pole tipped with
"A piece OF rubber hose. 40 as not 10 harm the .ree,
and the caierpliars Il am now talking az 4hs
orgyial viii drop In thousands to the groun1.
4, once begin TO crawl toward the trunk OF the
tree and II | have few men with me come
back 10 that some four times that IL. about
every ten minutes. and give those crawling In
scr,s another dose OF my carboic emulsion. which
consists OF six pounds soap. four quarts Kerosene.
Two quarts carholic acid. to 100 gallons OF water
In this way XIII every caterpillar. II this
/ is neglected. then there comes the fourth and most
unsatisfactory remedy-that Is. to spray the cocoons
and eggs The cocoons can be killed. but II Is
Only the first layer OF that are affected. ana
behind those are hundreds that Will hatch with the
first warm In the spring
II am very glad the papers have taken up the
subject Of the insect pests. The city In my hunpie
opinion. ought to give special grant to the Park
Department to fight the present plague. you cannot
/ IL
sprinkling wagons which will be great aid bu'
| | thoroughly realize what will have to night
against mex. month-an army OF millions ana mill
| ions Of bugs These bugs Of August breeding are
| far and away more destructive than their fathers
of the spring They not only strip everything oiean.
| hut eat the newly formed buds that are to be the
leaves of the coming year. This is the orgyia and
| can tell YOU that have in one season collected
no lesA than thirteen bushels OF these Insects
.Thc clm-trec beetle is another awful pest To
! XIII A. the best way IL sprinkle the trees with
London purple the first week IN May 20 az 10 r KIN
should be kept up for two weeks, and then starr
the sprnkine again the hrs week IN June n 70 h h
| have Matched. In two or three weeks the small
catepars begin to descend the trees w"H n AYES
iarval state round the roots of me trees ! have
TAX Base as Of "o on" ar" ar tree II is while this
that my emulsion does the greatest w9 ,rK; nor
Of this most destructive pest. They only live N
their pupa state for about TWO weeks. ana tneh
! he beetle reinforced a thousand times is laying
her eggs everywhere for a second crop OF IcaI
devouring bugs.
BUSHELS OF RAGWORMS DESTROYED.
'"rhe bngworms perhaps as destructive AZ
any other OF leaf-eating pests. and have
killed many as twentyone bushels OF them In
one season They In force These
worms are always incased In small cage OF twigs.
and never come out OF II. They creep along the
boughs and up every twig. and they have TO be
scraped of with two-pronged fork. The female
never leaves her home OF small twigs she - wing
! less and lays her eggs In her own home OF woven
twigs and gives up her life to her ofrspring--a
most pernicous set or sons ana daughters, n m:
! az our parks are concerned
The em-tree borer Is another pest lost TO sigh:
hut IL leaves "A trail behind-the dgested heart OF
the wood 1t is killing. When this is busted away a
holt H is Ina in the Sus which
| closed with putty: with that one bug at least Ia
dead have found ,o as many as th'rts-t"0 in enc