The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-29

The large number Of very intelligent
nual meeting Of the Farmers Union-~who,
by the way seem to be attending strictly
to business with commendabie devotion to
terest in yesterdays Telegraph brief re-
port OF the preliminary experiments being
made near Unadilla by the Bureau of Ento-
sometimes called red rust
Microscopic examinations have shown that
s sne s,as red rust !. by little
cause their attacks on the cotton plant
turn the leaf red). After examining the in
ton Of the Department Of Entomology came
into Macon and purchased a spray pump
such as is used In spraying peach trees. He
careful experiments with q number of mix
lures. First, one pound Of soap to two gall
Ions Of water; second. one pound Of soap to
soap to eight gallons Of water. The soap
used was ordinary laundry soap costing s
cents q pound box, and the water used was
common well or hydrant water. Each Of
the three strengths worked very WELL Civ
ing. on count, over s5 per cent. killed"
tobacco juices Of varying strength, sulphur
I've: or potash and lime dust. OF these I've
and sulphur were second, but not enough
OF course, this is the first experimental
stage. but II is exceedingly interesting.
Whether or not the s per cent remaining
cies and carry on the destruction remains
to be seen. 1t is part OF thesexperiment
yet to come.
If further experiments prove the useful
ness Of this preliminary work, a farmer
can provide himself with q spray pump at
small cost and from the nearest store get
the common wash soap and attack the first
appearance Of the spider. just as the orr
chardists have with the Bordo mixture been
The appearance and the description Of
the pest was Interestingly described by Mr..
Pendleton in the Telegram yesterday. In
part: THE red spider makes known his
appearances by turning the leaves a reddish
brown. Some farmers In the neighborhood
Of unadilla where the work was carried on.
call this the red rust But It 10 not strict
" rust, which latter is caused by q
Leaves infested with the red spider are
bitten on, the under side. and they probably
have their life juices sucked out, as well a.
receive poison from the animalcuiae. They
and this srea usy .sarn near sss
base OF the leaf. where the stalk Is at
tached. and spreads out In fan shaped
fact that the spider crawis up the stems
and attacks the leaf as soon as Il reaches Il.
Another indication of the same thing is the
little time after the spiders have been on
them, for the spiders are mostly found on
the top part of the plant. IN which seems
at first to be an uninfested region.
1.-THE spider itself Is very minute. being
about the size of the point OF a pin. 1t
can indeed be seen with the naked eye.
but magnifier or hand lens is necessary to
Identify IL from the other plant insects. It
is not. as its proper name indicates, red. bat
brown spots ON its tiny body. This with
eight legs make 1t easily distinsuishable
from other insects.
THE spider does not, apparently, attack
the whole field at once. but appears in spots
here and there. And from these as a center,
II rapidly spreads in all directions and II
not successfully combatted, proves q disas-
trous pest to the cotton"