Arizona republican., 1917-02-25

great many pupae Small pieces of corn an be sprayed successfully with lrsenate of lead using ? pounds to 30 5allons of water, the water being made into strong soap solution. This acts loth as repellent and as a poison Co the beetles.
 Injury to corn and other crops can oe overcome partially if the soil is placed in the best possible cultural condition by the addition of barnyard i manure or other fertilizer
 The nymphs and adults of pre- 1acious hemipteron were observed to
 eed upon these beetles. and small parasitic wasp was found to prey upon . the larvae and prepupae
 HONEY BEE AND FRUIT GROWER '
 The friends of the honey bee have i ong contended that without the bee to ! )olienize the fruit blossoms there ! would be but little fruit During the ! 1ast three years the California College | f Agriculture has been maxim. a study | f the work which honey bees do. and 1 while results are perhaps not conclu- | i've. it is believed there is little doubt 1 hat the bees in transferring pollen ' rom tree to tree. influence the size of he crop to very large extent. Quot ng from the bulletin: Two pairs of adjoining French and Imperial prune trees, as nearly as pos sible of the same age and size. were ,hosen for the experiment. Over each pair was constructed a tent of white mosquito bar The tents were approx- mately 40 feet long. 2 feet wide. and feet high. and constructed as near insect proof as possible Aside from he fact that the force of the wind was | broken by this arrangement, the trees lnder the tents were under approxi- | nately the same conditions as the re- l mainder of the trees in the orchard. l Both tents were completed before any 1 )f the blossoms opened. They were | 'aken down after the blossoms had reached stage where there was no
 turther danger of being pollinated from l outside sources. As soon as 9 per cent l T the blossoms had opened, a hive of 1 bees was placed under one tent and
 Sept there throughout the blossoming l period tabout five day in the season
 f l9lbJ. All insects were excluded | rom the second tent, and a careful
 watch maintained to see that none en-
 cred. The bees under tent number
 started To work almost immediately
 ma dld not seem to object to being i'm
 orisoned in the tent or try to eecsDe
 They seemed to prefer the flowers of
 ne French prune to those Of the Inn
 perial, and seemed to devote most of
 their attention to the former variety
 This hive was kept under the tent untu
 u appeared that all of the blossorns
 1ad opened and it could reasonably he
 supposed that nearly every blossom
 had been visited by one or more of fho
 2ees. The bees were then removed.
 me tents were taken down after the
 petals of the blossoms had fallen and
 L.efe was no danger of pollen being
 brought from outside sources to the
 rees m the experiment. As practical
 " all or the trees in the orchard
 olossomed approximately at the same tlfhe as the trees under the tents fl is reasonable to suppose that no pollen , reached the trees under experime,t ifter the tents had been removed
 Results were apparent as soon as if | was possible to tell how much fruit mad set. It was evident that tbc trench prune tree under the tent with she bees had set q much heavier crou lhah that of the best trees exposed tr normal conditions. The French prnne
 tree under the tent from which bees
 ma all other insects were excluded. had
 set very light crop. For some unac-
 couhtable reason, the ImpeAal ire, . under the tent with the bees set only a : light crop of friut. The Imperial ire, under the tent from which all insect, were excluded set but few scatterina s fruits 'e All trees were carefully watched 5 throughout the season. At an earl, , date II became necessary to prop in, ! French prune tree which had beer under the tent with the bees. to Dre vent serious damage to the tree b, I breaking the limbs. The difference ir e the amount of fruit set by the Frencl | prune which had been under the ten | with the bees and the amount born, on the adjoining trees all in the sam, state of thrift and having been giver the same care. was easily apparent {, even the casual observer.
 Without the aid of bees or other in. sects the set of fruit on the F'rencl | prune is often light.
 \ The Imperial prune does not seen \ to be able to set fruit unless polIinate, \ by insects with pollen from othe | trees.
 Of the bills recently introduced i,
 10 farmers and livestock breeders
 House bill IA is an act to regnIaf, | the practice of veterinary medicine ana provides q penalty for practicinj
 without license. It also makes it nee
 essary that a practitioner shall be ex
 amined before a veterinary board.
 MT. Wiltbank of Apache county il
 House bill No. 129 recommends abol
 ishlng all experiment station farms selling the property and turning tn
 money back into the general fund
 Since only $1,000 was proposed for tn
 Salt River Experiment farm. it migh
 be advisable to pass this bill. lnciden
 tally some of the professors of tn
 College of Agriculture might be dis pensed with, and this would give nor
 funds for drilling artesian wells sev
 erai counties having asked for s10, ,00
 each, for the purpose of drilling ex perimental wells. A bill has been in ' troduced in the senate appropriatin
 the necessary funds to enable to talk