The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-03-04
seventeen-Year Loousts Again Due.

Seventeen-Year Locusts Again Due.
Next season the spventeen-year To-
Gusts will be due. and some instruc-
tons regarding the course TO pursue
Will now be timely. The Pennsylva-
MIA State College issued a report re-
garding these lOcusts, i'm 1889. while
New Jersey and Ohio have also issued
bulletins. The Pennsylvania state
College has also issued Il recent bulle-
TN which is sent free to all upon APP
plication. According to information
sent out from the college the brood
of locusts OF 1880 will be due next
season in the counties Of Bedford.
Fulton, Huntington, AIifiin, Juniata.
Perry, Franklin, Adams. Cumberland.
York, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancaster.
Berks, Chester, Delaware. Bucks.
Montgomery. Lehigh and Northamp-
ton. The cicadaS or seventeen-year
locusts, may not appear over the whole
or the section mentioned. but may be
expected wherever the conditions
heretofore have been favorable for
their breeding and development. The
best breeding places are the brush
covered and woody pasture lands. In
asmuch as seventeen years is liable
to make n good deal OF difference I'm
the utilization OF land. 1t Is quite prob
able that in some places lands which
seventeen years ago were NOT in cuIr.
walton. and were good breedino
grounds of cicados are now cultivated
ana upon them ana I'm tbeir neie,,hor.
mood the insects. true TO their not,,re
may he expected to aupeor and ner-
haps in dangerously large numbers
In many places the Older residents
are able TO Locale such grounds
If young fruit trees or shrubs ore
on land subject to the appaarapca of
the cicadas. there will be Ijobilitv noxt
year of serious injury and mutllation
by the egc-laying process. as the bob;
of the cicada is to select small tyics
into which it proceeds to cut in order
to make suitable places for its eeas
Those who contemplate setting out
young trees should therefore he coro.
ful TO learn ST they are ON or near
locust ground" OF seventeen veors
ago. and If they find that tbcre Is risl,
should defer planting mill the d,noer
has passed.
The cicnda laws lis eggs during
June. but may BEGIN to Inv 81 Iittlo
earlier I'm The Southern counties tban
i'm the Northern tier: hence bv b,Iv
at the latest the egg-lavinc will have
been completed and all iuiulv occclp.
plished. Should il be considered not
too great a risk to ser ont trcos g.
would be VOL not to prune tho frees
closely on setting poytponiuo su.b
work until July. The pruning may
then be done. and the twlgs burned
that are removed. so as TO- destroy Tine
eggs As the cicada puts i'm it's au
pearancc at regular seasons am prep
arations to meet So can be- made iu
advance. The insects may auppar I'm
reduced numbers, or may have been
cNtcrminaled I'm some localities. but
should 30 fail next year it will be the
first time in 1ST years
There is also q thirteen-ycar locust
but it is different insect I'm character
istics from the other, appearing most
ly iu Che South The eggs OF the
seventeeuyear Iocusts are deposited
bon grooves of the twigs and hatch n
about Sis weeks. After being Matched
from thc eggs Tine young locusts fan
To- the ground and buTow iu the earth
going down to- from three to- twenty