St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-09-03
Eor1 4/IZ6u15. Grub 0fJuue and lo/n
Plant 5how>7g 6iH64g Injury.

he rolled in like carpet. By preference tney
devastate grass, but If the supply Is scant' tnes
are willing to ruin small grain corn' sefa"Du''s
plantations woodlands, and, indeed, many .ne 1
situations They are especially difficult to COM
bat because the life history Is hard 10 1olio"
from the first to the last stage only slnsie
specimen has been bred from the egg TO the
beetle and It's 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' ana
crows and crow blackbirds
Occasionally a farmer notices that field
which has been brown from grub ravage De-
comes green and alive. He Is inclined TO tnlnK
it 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 gues to its thick hide
an egg which in few days matches into
veritable vampire. 1t sucks from its host its
life Juices, leaving the shell IT, crumble back
to earth
Trees, both those in natures forests and
those which have been planted, noble and
helpless products of nature" to quote Dr.
Forbes, are often dragged to a slow and I'M
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you never late in May or in June noticed upon
shade trees little wads Of cotton! Each wad,
you will see, if you look, projects from brown
cap, which is the female maple scale. It is
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 5000 eggs in her own
roI nr rhac oft tar
considerable experiment that kerosene emul
sion was effective in disposing Of these pests.
A 20 per cent. emulsion could be used In winter
If the roots Of the trees were protected, and
10 per cent in summer. It 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 five minutes, when II
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 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 a
cent mark. This means that busy little curculio
has had its beak in your apple before you and
has probably laid egg at the sign of the
crescent curculios. spray compound Of 12h
ounces of acetate of lead and four ounces OF
arsenate Of soda to fifty gallons of water, II
used three or four times, will catch practically
all these orchard destroyers.
Among the insects injurious to health the
common housefy takes first rank. DR.. Forbes
has found that rs per cent. Of the common
housefiies breed In horse manure. AS the rene
dies that will kill the housefy maggots are too
dangerous to be used in stables, except boiling
water, which is hardly practicable, the only
protection seems to be in screening stables
against flies as we do our houses and in careful
city sanitation