Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-14
AR Is OVER But
SEVENTEEN YEAR
LOCUST Is HERE


Ledge 0f ARithmetSe
somebody has said '.Iiss Is one
blank thing after another and 20
81 appears.
NOw that the war II over. the price
ID egEs gone down ard congress- 81
fhe end of it's session, along come the
SntDmoiogiaas 20 remind long suiTer-
gng mortals that this world Is just one
condemned thing after another BY an
mOnncing that Dir. Cicada. old lady
Cseada and the whole Cicada tribe are
shout to pay one Of their periodical
Visits. II you don't know Mr.. ctcada
By his right name. It's certain you
know him as the 17-year-locust.
And 20 Il goes. "Flu" epidemica.
swillful groups in the senate. sugar
tess coffee. harmless sandwiches and
8asIess Sundays come and go, only
to leave the locust pest ID their wake.
Az Shakespeare, Isaiah or maybe Il
was Abraham Lincoln said, oh, why
should the spirit oF mortal BE proud. :
The Last time this section OF the
world was favored with visitation
80 thel7-year locust was back In 1902.
Count Il up FOR yourself 1902 plus IL
equals 1919. Easy enough, But what
enc plain citizen arises 10 inquire II,
aWho III the name oK pity taught the
locust arithmetic? How does he
know it was the year 1902 when he
patd Ms last yIsit? And even II he
knew that much. how does the news
porcoiaEe 10 his subterranean haunts
that 1919 has skipped lightly into his
fnry?" There Is no use looking for
the answers Not here. That Is ex-
pecting TOO much,
Longest-Lived Among Insects
According to the bugologists, the
periodical Ctcada is the Methusaleh
Of the insect world. He not only has
been known for d longer time than
any other insect, but ne lives longer
FOR 4 mere bug. the kind entomolo-
gists specialize In, III years Is mile
Ienniun Sixteen years of that period
are spent grubhlng around on the re-
verse side os the landscape safe from
temptation, Bolsheviki and ali that
when he emerges into this worldly
turmoil he comes with mature mind
and firmly established habits. Out
side OF that there is nothing the mat
ter with them except his uHWayering
determination to make q racket all
night long. plus the misguided Indus
try og his wife IN the nsatter of rufn-
Ing i whole lot os perfectly good fruit
bearing vegetation
The lady Of the family has no
friends. She never pickets the White
HoNae nor Insists on dahblng powder
on her nose III street cars either. She
saws wood and says nothing while the
old man talks politics and INDUCES IN
the senatorial privilege OF making
loud noise. But it Is the wood saving
that has made Mrs. Cicada very un-
popular, with OTchardists especially
Locust years have always brought
great loas to fruit growers Young
trees more than the old fall prey to.
the depredations Of the female locust.
She really does saw into the twigs Of
the trees. making q sItt an Inch or 30
IN length ID which she deposits her
sggs
Means Weakening Of Fruit Trees
These sllts never heal satisfactorily.
They either kill the branch from that
point outward or leave d weak place
to break under the weight Of foliage
or fruit Furthermore. these cuts AZ
ford an excellent point OF attack for
the woolly aphis. Now don't spoil this
learned discussion BY asking what
wOoiIy aphis Ii. Don't know. II there
is anything Id d name he Is probably
the Angora goat of the insect world
But that. Of conrse,.is only guess.
What the eggs hatch the larvae drop
To the ground and work themselves
into the SOIL. That Is the beginning
of what bulletin of the Maryland
state Agricultural college calls the
'.nymphal stage. That. at least. ought
to Sc perfectly clear to anybody
Nyhphal like d nynaph NyInph
Anneska Kslierman Really that ex-
plains i aos of things about wood
ayn1pha aud water-nymphs that We
learned about Id school. but never
fully grasped. don't you know. But
reanming; These larvae dig down TO
considerable depth They have been
found 10 feet below the surface
AS College Bulletin Tells IL
Right here we are going to start to
quote from that Agricultural college
bulletin. FOR instance: There are six
nymphat stages. four laryal and two
pupal. Can they mean pupil"2 They