The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-12-28

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TIE sEvE Ee "a LOCUST
HoUIsTs yv. W. pee Ell isoss
Mr. LspuEIis
sIfisor west giniaai. &
Aiy Dear Sir: y III " 4
An editorial IN the
a short time back, felattve 10 tihs- atls
El,earance next spring ID the 17.yent
locust caused me NO do some llhdnk1ns
mi i dsc1dest yoh were 1rrli.tsstlaasen IS to-
the date. &. y: 80 Is s9S : :S5
!; / t1is1tctlg remember two appeas
ancee Of the locusts, ei. rather the
PERIODICAL cicada, as they are mot ireal'
lpcusts at AL
The dFat WIS In BauNi oul: county I'M
tie year 1850, when i was ten Seal.5
Old. They were very numerous dnit1
II Distinctly remember the Tin they
kept up the few weeks they Pasted.
Tie lasat time they appeared was lin
1871. I then lived mere at EFosi1S iank1
while not so numerous as in Barbour
county IN 1850 there was neve1theiesn
plenty of them.
1felt certain OF these dates and that
the Cicadta would not :ppear again
I'LL IN 1914 but also mad the fmpres.
sion that there were thfrteen.year To-.
Gusts and also different brooSls OF ttle
seventeen-year lccusts and thought
that perhaps after all you were rghs..i
After hunting around n1lo11g some old
papers and bulletins .hoGnh .bthle-
tin dealing with THE Peat9otlfd:a Clcsp
tta. on seventem.yea1i Locust i'm WeasI
Virginia" by. A D. HnR4Sfnss Phi. D..
and issued by the Experiment Station
at Ntorgantown in 1900 which rs Of. Ia
teNst to any one ait all Interested ii;
the subject as 1t goes into tine subject
evhausttvely. Containing SO pages be-
sides inserted plates It has many.
n1gQ,s showing the areIf covered by the
Varrtus brcods on sHvarlrs. ] cannot
quote IN detail Dr. will give some of
The ipforn1a acn iculled from the slir..
mary in back of said bulletin.
There are two kinds of Periodical
C;caia differing only in til period OF
the Seyenteen:year locust |
which appears only in the north anil
uhc tilirheen-S ear loc,r.Is which l.:rear,5
only i'm the south besides tn eocalGed |
August locust CT "jar. fly" which is
nryGh larger and appeans every year in
July and August.
Only tnile iSeye-keen-year. species aIl /
pear in West Virginia, the thtmeen.
year 'broodIs never. having been FOUND
in 1he.! State. 4+s 3. ss.s,s..j ~
There are eight Sseparate and dis
ittnct br-coths or sElTms DIN tive State
al appearing at ,resular pei4c,ls OF
seventeen years but coming in differ
ent years as follows tcpnrittEg from
1900, 1901, 1901 ,l9g5. 1906, 1910,
1914, 1915 and 19lS, and two less de-
,lnesl and ral1her Igpcert ain SO lS E;t, ~ y
West virginia d if!55 Concerned On 1911
and 1912. + :
BY far tic largest anil most import,
ant SWARM lis brood Nv, which arpear-
Ell in 1887 AMI will come again fll
1914. Swaa'm HI, Wdifnh win appear |
in 1910 of minor Importance 50 sfat'
as This State is concerned aud q no |
concern ait all so far rs this part OF !tls
state is affected nid appe:ns only in
the counties CT Pemdteaons Hardy, |
Grant, and Randolph and perhaps
Slightly in Pocalnoltas, tfrsenbrier,
ALuaroe. Wayne and Minso.
The big 1914 brood may be looked
for In rthe countles Of Barbour, Brax- i
ten. Gilncr, Grant, Hancock, Hardy.
II nu1isuul, jackson, Kanawlla, Lewis
Marion Marshall, Mason. Mineral,
SIonoqlgalia, Nicholas. Ohio, Preston
putnam. Pocahaatas, Peasants, Rosne.
Ri'Schtc, Taylor. Tyler.
tucker. 1:pstur, Wetzel. WHIT Wood.
Webster and perhaps Slightly In
Wayne, Summers, Boone ark Green
brier.
II will be seer they ovel1-Np sllga--
II 1ut tie enc brood is all that ap.
rcars In this part OF the State.
Very respectfully.
mi JAS. d: BOWMAN.