The Nenana daily news., 1919-04-03
LOCUST ATTACK |S COMING SOON
 IN IHE STA1ES

United States in late May and early
 June this year, which is expected
 by scientists to be one of the wors>
 locust years" on record. Experts
 of the department of agriculture
 however, see nothing alarming ir
 the prospect
 Once regarded superstitiously as
 a harbinger of disaster, the periodi.
 cal cicada, popularly known as the
 14year locust because 1t comes al
 long intervals, is seen now to be
 no more than an ordinary non-
 poisonous insect pest, which can
 do little damage if proper pre-
 cautions are taken. The chief in-
 jury inflicted by the insect consists
 almost wholly in chiseling grooves
 in the branches Of trees for deposit ing eggs. Young fruit trees some times are killed. but the damage generally seems greater than it actually is according to the entomol- ogists, and popular alarm is out of proportion to the real danger.
 The department of agriculture nas kept close check for many years of all the broods of locusts and can forecast accurately when and where the pests will appear Large regions will be affected this year where one brood appeared l7 years ago and in other regions which sui feTed l3 years ago, the states in- cIuding Alabama, District of Col umbia, Deleware, Georgia, Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland. Massachusetts,. Michigan, New Jer- sey, New York, North Carolina. Ohio. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
 Belief that the 1919 brood will be exceptionally large is based on the fact that the 17-year brood coming out this year is brood 10. perhaps the largest of the 17-year brood. and that brood Is of the Swear family comes out at the same time. The year 1868 was the greatest locust year in history, when brood 19. the largest of the l3-year family, appeared in conjunction with brood 10 of the 17-year family
 There will be three regions of greatest occurrence of brood 10. one covering New Jersey. Mary land and Eastern Pennsylvania: an other covering all of Indiana. the greater part of Ohio and Southern and a third covering Western North Carolina. Eastern Tennessee. and Northern Georgia. While brood 10 will affect 20 states. brood IS will appear in only five states-Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Ten nessee. and only limited areas in those states.
 (. L. Marlatt, chairman of the F Federal Horticultural Board, who has perfected the informat:fn on the cicada, calls the insect the most interesting in the world, because of the spectacular swarms in which i, appears, it's queer recurrence at long ntercals and the portentous significance frequently attached to 1t, Every locust year has been year of fear and dread, even in civilized times. Some people have 1ancied that they could detect in me cry of the insect resemblance to the name of the Egyptian mon arch' Pharoah, who persecuted the israenteS. Superstition attached also to the shape of the filmv bars oh The eieada's wings, which seemed to form the letter "W". interpreted as a forecast of war.
 Since this outbreak will cone just at the conclusion of the great est war" said Mir. Marlatt said. "and when even the imagination of the rural prophet could hardly conjure up the likelihood of anotbsr o