The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-08-25
earn 6i//-6u1J, Grub o<Ja0se and (orn
Plant JHow>n9 6/H-549 M/uEy.

be rolled up like a carpet BY preference they
devastate grass, but II the supply Is scant, they
are willing to ruin small grain corn, strawberry
plantations, woodlands and, indeed, many other
situations. They are especially difficult to com
bat because the life history is hard to follow
from the first to the last stage Only single
specimen has been bred arom 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. We-known enemies
Of the white grub also are the festive porker,
which will dig foot for nice fat one. and
crows and crow backbirds
Occasionally farmer notices that a field
which has been brown from a grub ravage be-
comes green and alive. He Is inclined to think
II clear case of the Lord remembering the
righteous; as a 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 few days matches into q
vertabe vampire. 1t sucks from its host it's
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. are often dragged TO slow and I'M
slightly death through insect infestation Have
you never late in May or in June noticed upon
shade trees little wads of cotton? Each wad
you VIII see, If you look, projects from a brown
cap, which Is the female maple scale II In a
native insect parasite of the soft maple. II win
infest besides the maple, the linden, box elder
elm and honey locust. These cotton wads are
the soft bed In which the careful female Law.
her eggs. and each female can be relied upon
to deposit something like 5000 eggs in her own
particular little wad. DR.. Forbes found after
considerable experiment that kerosene emuI-
sion was effective in disposing of these pests
20 per cent. emulsion Q~uld be used in winter
II the roots OF the trees were protected, and a
~ per cent In summer. II is made by dissoIy.
ing one pound of common soap In one gallon
oil water by boiling. This is removed from the
lre and TWO gallons of kerosene poured in
With spray pump the mixture is then forced
back into itself for about five minutes when n
VIII look IKE 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 AZ cents gallon and three or four gallons
VIII save large tree from destruction
doubtless you have noticed upon the apples
you brought home in a paper bag and those
lhat Tell from your own cherished tree a cres-
cent mark. This means that busy little curculio
has had its beak in your apple before vou and
has probably laid an egg at the sign If tho
crescent curculios A spray compound of t2n
ounces OF acetate of lead and four ounces of
arsenate of soda to fifty gallons of water ~
used three or four times, will catch practically
all these orchard destroyers
Among the insects injurious to health the
common househy takes first rank. DR. Forbes
las found that IS per cent of the common
iouseiiies breed in horse manure AS the RENE
, ,ieS that VIII XIII the houseAy maggots are too
dangerous to be used In stables excent hoiIip.
water which IS hardly practicable. the onIy
projection seems to be In screening stablea
against flies as We do our houses and in careful
lily sanitation