The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-13
KILL FARM PEST INSECTS

The most practical and successful
methods of combating grasshoppers
| is by broadcasting the following
poison bran mash:
Coarse bran, 20 pounds, cheap mo-
lasses quarts, white arsenic l.
pound, oranges or lemons 3, water
gallons.
Mix thoroly bran and white arsenic
in dry state.
Add syrup to water. Chop fruit
up fine and add to the liquid.
Add gradually the liquid mixture
to the dry mixture. Mix thoroly.
Consistency of mash should be
moist and crumbly so that it can be
readily broadcasted but there should
be no large chunks. This poison
mash should be broadcasted early in
the morning and should cover from
two to three acres. By broadcasting
all danger to stock is eliminated.
The first sowing should kill from 60
to 80 per cent of the grasshoppers.
The grasshoppers lay their eggs
about one inch below the surface OF
the ground along neglected fence
rows; in grassworn and weedy
fields the middle of August until
frost Fall blowing, thoro disking
or narrowing in fall or in early
spring before the eggs hatch will
break up and destroy most OF the
eggs masses. The eggs hatch about
the first of May.
There is parasitic flesh fly (Sar-
cophoga Kelly1) which is attacking
the grasshoppers and destroying
thousands of them. However, the
farmer cannot afford to rely upon
this flesh fly and therefore should
use the bran mash which is a cheap
and effective remedy.
Cabbage Insects
Many cabbage patches are begin
ming to look like the battlefields OF
Europe. The leaves are riddled with
holes. This injury is due to either
the imported cabbage worm which is
the velvet green caterpillar of the
white butterfly so commonly seen
around gardens, or the cabbage loop
er which is a greenish worm striped
with whitish lines.
Other cabbage leaves are begin
ming to curl and look sickly as re-
suit of the cabbage aphis or louise.
Control of these insects is best af-
fected by the use of Is per cent
kerosene emulsion which is made as
follows:
Stock solution, kerosene, two gal
Ions; whale oil or any hard soap,
one-half pound; water one gallon:
Shave soap and dissolve in boiling
water Remove from stove, add
gradually the kerosene and beat
thoroly into an emulsion. In large
quantities this is best accomplished
| by a hand pump forcing the mixture
thro the hose and back into the con-
tainer. When pump is not available,
Dover egg-beater may be used TO
produce the emulsion.
In applying this, for every gallon
of the stock solution add IL gallons
of water and thoroly agitate.
This is one of the most effective
sprays, but its success depends upon
the spray being creamy white or In
perfect emulsion. II there Is any
free kerosene, the leaves will be
| burned.
If the cabbage is affected by aphis
only, they may be controlled either
by the use of the kerosene emulsion
spray or by the use of the Black
leaf 40, which is tobacco extract
nicotine sulphate) and is used in
the proportion of 1 part to l,O0O
parts of water. Black-leaf 40 will
not burn the foliage.
Both these sprays are effective
against all kinds or plant lice wher-
ever found tho the black-leaf 40 is
preferable for plants having tender
foliage.
When the cabbage is affected only
! by the imported cabbage worm or