The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-08-27
earn 6iII6u9J, Grub 0/Jnve and Goyn
Plant Jhowln1 6iA-64g Io/u|y.

be rolled I'm like a carpet BY preference they
devastate grass but II the supply Is scant tney
are willing to ruin small grain, corn, strawberry
plantations, woodlands, and, indeed. many other
situations. They are especially dimcuit 10 com
bat because the life history is hard to follow
from the first to the last stage. Only single
specimen has been bred from the egg to the
beetle and its life cycle occupied three years.
So far the best remedy has been found to
be in cropping especially in planting the In
tested ground to clover. Well-known enemies
of the white grub also are the festive porker.
which will dig foot for nice fat one, and
crows and crow blackbirds
Occasionally a farmer notices that a Geld
which has been brown from grub ravage be-
comes green and alive. He is inclined to think
1t clear case of the Lord remembering the
righteous as matter of fact another insect
has appeared and is working out another set
of instincts. This is the Tiphia, member OF
the solitary wasp family. 1t stings the grub
into submission and then CLUES to its thick hide
an egg which in a few days matches into a
veritabe vampire. 1t sucks from its host its
life juices, leaving the shell to crumble back
to earth.
Trees, both those in natural forests and
those which have been planted, noble and
helpless products of nature" to quote Dr.
Forbes, often dragged to slow and I'M
slightly death through insect infestation Have
shade trees little wads of cotton? Each wad,
you will see, II you look projects from brown
cap, which is the female maple scale. It Is a
native insect parasite of the soft maple. It will
infest, besides the maple, the linden, box elder.
elm and honey locust. These cotton wads are
the soft bed In which the careful female lays
her eggs, and each female be. relied upon
to deposit something like 1900 eggs in her own
particular little wad. DR.. Forbes found after
considerable experiment that kerosene emul-
sion effective In disposing Of these pests.
A 20 per cent. emulsion could be used in winter
II the roots of the trees were protected, and
10 per cent in summer. 1t Is made by dissolv-
ing one pound of common soap In one gallon
of water by boiling. This Is removed from the
fire and two gallons of kerosene poured in.
With a spray pump the mixture Is then forced
back into itself for about Ave minutes, when It
will look like thick cream, and no longer sepa,
rates on standing. Seventeen gallons of water
added to the three gallons thus prepared will
give 10 per cent. solution. The cost will
be 4.3 cents a gallon and three or four gallons
will save a large. tree from destruction.
Doubtless you have noticed upon the apples
you brought home In a paper bag and those
that fell from your own cherished tree cres-
cent mark. This means that busy little curculio
has had its beak in your apple before you and
has probably laid an egg at the sign of the
crescent curculios. spray compound Of IAN
ounces of acetate Of lead and four ounces Of
arsenate Of soda to nifty gallons Of water. II
used three or four times. will catch practically
all these orchard destroyers.
Among the insects injurious to health the
common houseny takes first rank. DR.. Forbes
has found that rs per cent of the common
housenies breed in horse manure. Az the RENE
dies that viii kill the houseny maggots are too
dangerous to be used a stables. except boiling
water. which - hardly practicable, the only
protection seems 70 be In screening stables