The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-08-27
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be rolled up like carpet BY preference lney
devastate grass, but il the supply IS scaht, they
are willing to ruin small grain, corn, strawberry
plantations, woodlands, and, indeed, many other
situations They especially dlnculL 20 CONF
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. WelIknown enemies
of the white grub also are the festive porker,
which will dig a foot for a nice fat one, and
crows and blackbirds.
Occasionally farmer notices that field
which has been brown from grub ravage be-
comes green and alive. He is inclined to think
it a 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, a 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
veritable vampire. It 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, are often dragged to a slow and I'M
slightly death through insect infestation Have
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 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 laws
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 a kerosene emuI-
sion was effective in disposing of these pests
20 per cent. emulsion could be used in winter
II 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 spray pump the mixture is then forced
back into itself for about five 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 AZ cents gallon and three or -four gallons
will save large tree from destruction
Doubtless you have noticed upon the annIes
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 Won and
has probably laid an egg at the sign of the
crescent curculios spray compound Of 1914
ounces OF acetate OF lead and four ounces of
arsenate OF soda TO fifty gallons of water, If |
used three or four times, will catch practically
all these orchard destroyers |
Among the insects Injurious to heath tho
common houseiy takes first rank DR.. Forbes |
has found that rs per cent of the common |
nousefies 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 I
pro.ecelo ~ seems to be in screening stables
city sanitation - oA'A