The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-01
earn 6/I/-6u15, Grub O/Ja>0e and (Orn
Plant 5HoNzi7g 6/Ht6ug injury.

be rolled ND like a carpet. BY preference Iney
devastate grass, but if the supply is scant, tney
are willing to ruin small grain, corn' s'i""
plantations woodlands and, indeed MANY o'neA
situations They are especially difficult TO COM
bat because the life history Is nara 10 loilo"
from the first to the last stage. only sihsle
specimen has been bred from the egg 10 the
hectic and its life cycle occupied three years.
So far the best remedy has been found 10
he in cropping especially in planting the n
tested ground to clover. Wellknown enemies
of the white grub also are the festive porker,
which will dig foot for nice fat one, and
crows and crow blackbirds.
Occasionally farmer notices that field
which has been brown from grub ravage De-
comes green and alive. He is inclined TO mink
1t 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 It's thick hide
an egg which in a few days matches into
veritable vampire. 1t sucks from It's most lts
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
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. 1t is
native insect parasite of the soft maple. 1t 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 can be relied upon
to deposit something like 5000 eggs in her own
ror+;o11lar little Wad DIR Forbes found after
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 a
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 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 43 cents a gallon and three 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 cres-
cent mark This means that busy little curculio
has had it's 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, If
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
housefes breed in horse manure AS the rene
dies that will kill the housef1y 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