The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-01-15

crushed ice and cheap fertilizer salt.
| have used II MS II is, opening the
| doors nights to cool Off and keeping
| IL closed during the day. except when
| putting In more fruit. pick and put
in barrels in the orchard and store
them open. In rainy weather | can
sort and pick for market. | usually
sell TO buyers, so they are of my
hands aud in market or cold storage.
near market, by November 10. | have
| seldom kept a crop over.-H. IL. Hill.
in New England Homestead.
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Sevcntccn-Ncar Locusts Again Due.
Next season the seventeen-year 10.
Gusts will be due. and some instruc-
tions regarding the course TO pursue
will now be timely. The Pennsylva-
mia state College issued report re-
garding these locusts, in 1880, while
New Jersey and Ohio have also issued
bulletins. The Pennsylvania State
College has also issued n recent bulle-
tin, which is sent free to all upon ap-
plication. According to information
| sent out from the college the brood
of locusts of 1885 will be due next
| season in the counties of Bedford,
Fulton, Huntingdon, Mllfllin, Juniata.
| Perry, Franklin, Adams. Cumberland,
York, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancaster,
Bcrks, Chester, Delaware. Bucks,
Montgomery, Lehigh and Northamp-
ton. The clcadas or seventeen year
locusts, may not appear over the whole
of 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 ard woody pasture lands. In
| asmuch as seventeen years Is liable
to make Il good deal of difference in
the utilization of land, it Is quite prob
| able that in some places lands which
seventeen years ago were not in cultl-
vation, and were good breeding
grounds Of cicadas. are now cultivated,
| and upon them and in their neighbor-
hood the insects. true to their nature.
may ne expected TO appear, and per-
haps in dangerously large numbers.
In many places the older residents
are able TO locate such grounds.
Ii young fruit trees or shrubs are
on land subject to the appearance of
the cicadns. there will be liability next
year Of serious injury and mutilation
by ,he cgg-iaying process, as the habit
OF the clcada Is to select small twigs
into which 1t proceeds TO cut in order
to make suitable places for its eggs.
Those who contemplate setting out
young trees should, therefore. he care
iul 10 learn II they are on or near
"locust ground OF seventeen years
ago, and If they find that there is risk
should defer planting until the danger
has passed.
The cicGda lays its eggs during
June. but may begin to lay n little
earlier in the Southern counties than
in the Northern tier; hence by July l,
Mt the latest tile egg-laying will have
been completed and all injury accom-
plished. Should it be considered not
too great & risk TO set out trees II
would be well not TO prune the trees
closely on setting, postponing such
work until July. The pruning may
then be done. and the twigs burned
| that are removed, so as to destroy the
eggs. AS the cicada puts in it's ap-
| arations to meet it can be made in
advance. The insects may appear in
| reduced numbers, or may have been
exterminated in some localities, but
should it fail next year 1t will be the
| first time in 1871 years.
There is also n thrtecn-year locust,
but 1t is different insect in character
istcs from the other. appearing most
ly in the South. The eggs of the
| seveutcen-year IOcusts are deposited
in grooves OF the twigs and hatch In
| about six weeks. After being hatched
from the eggs the young locusts fall
10 the ground and burrow in the earth.
going down to from three to twenty
feet where they remain and feed upon
the roots OF trees or plants,
While in the earth they shed their
skins several times. and at the proper
time tunnel upward, ascend the trees,
again shed their skins. and are then
ready for the work of propagation
They begin to ascend about June /,
Il little earlier sometimes, and after
sunset. They do not cause as much
damage as may be supposed, consid-
erinG their great number, but, never
theless, do sufficient injury to cause
them TO be unwelcome visitors. Any
effort at destruction of the insects
! would he almost of no avail, as such
worl; would be laborious. The best
course 10 pursue is TO endeavOr to
avoid them ms much rs possible by
refrainlng from setting out young
trees, rs stated, and leaving the prun-
ins o. amy trees that may already have
been set out until the 1st of July. AS
they will not again appear until 1919,