Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-05-29
FLIES CAME BY CAR
WERE UNKNOWN IN OREGON UN-
TIL RAILROADS MADE ENTREE.
ODD FACT is CITED
Fer Western State Has no chinch
Bugs, Potato Beetles or Grasshop-
pers, but Plenty of Other Pests to
Worry Her Good PeopIe-BattIe
With Pests Tame as in East.

Professor F. L. Washburn, former
state entomologist of Oregon, who will
succeed the late Professor Otto Lug
ger at the Minnesota experiment sta
ton, has arrived in Minneapolis and
will soon take charge of the work
where his predecessors labors ceased
Professor Washburn finds that in
sect conditions in Oregon and Mime
sofa correspond in many vital re-
spects, the points of contact having to
do with the pests which do most
damage in the vegetable kingdom in
both states. Speaking generally OF
Oregon insects, Professor Washburn
says it is a remarkable fact that the
insect fauna of that state, particularly
with reference to the pests to agricul-
ture, has been undergoing a marked
change within the last twenty years.
He has no reason to doubt, he says.
the statements of old Oregonians that
twenty years ago the famous Red APP
pie of Oregon was free from Goblin
moth, which has been brought into the
well established fact that house flies
were unknown in Oregon until the ad-
vent of the railroads.
Dwelling upon his own observa-
tions, the professor said:
II have noticed the gradual spread
of the Goblin moth throughout the
state into regions which were exempt
upon my arrival, and have remarked
the adver. of the Hessian fly, now
present in certain localities in small
numbers. Until recently the coast
counties of Oregon, owing to the
strong west winds and the presence
of the coast range, have been free
from the attack of the Goblin moth.
Owing to more or less importation in
to that region, and lack of preventive
measures, the moth is now getting
foothold. A marked difference is OBJ
servable between the treatment of this
pest in the eastern states-Minnesota
for instance-and in Oregon. In the
former locality it has been found nec-
essary to spray Immediately after the
blossoms fall, while in Oregon, spray
ing as early as that would mean a loss
of time and labor. In the east the
moth is thought to be one-brooded.
thus requiring fewer number of
sprayings.. In Oregon the long, warm
season permits of at least two broods
some observers t>.nk three-and
necessitates corresponding increase
in the number of sprayings. l advised
that the first spraying occur between
June IL and Is in Oregon, the moth
being on the wing in May. The pota-
to bug or beetle, SO well known in the
eastern states has not yet found it's
way to Oregon, and invasions of grass
hoppers, or, more properly, locusts,
are unknown. There is a large acri-
did Called western cricket which oc-
casionally finds it's way from the
sage-covered foot hills of the Cas-
cades into neighboring gardens, but
the injury caused by it is not serious;
while in the Willamette valley, which
is the garden spot of Oregon, locust
eggs could not survive the extremely
wet winters in large enough numbers
alton. The caterpillars are more or
less sporadic in their appearance.
Canker worms, such pests in the east
ern states, are not alarmingly numer-
Gus, though becoming more so, and
the citizens of Oregon have never
seen there the seventeen year locust"
or cicada. They have, however, two
other cicadius which occasionally in
jure fruit trees to a slight extent.
"Oregon's battle with pests is prob
ably no greater nor less than the
same battle waged by the agriculturist
in the middle and eastern states; she
has no chinch bugs, nor potato beetles,
nor grasshopper invasions, and no
seventeen-year locusts, but she has a
host of other pests to take their
place"
NUnA MIC HDEh-