Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-07-15
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overspread the United States. 1t at
tacks not only practically all fruits
but also many garden vegetables and
corn. Since it's first appearance III
the United States this beetle has null
tiplied and spread at an astounding
rate In the middle of August. 1916,
when it was discovered, only about a
dozen beetles could be collected, even
though the search was made in the To-
cality which is in the center of the
infestatiOn, while at the present time
| $4,000 to 10000 beetles can be col
lected by hand by one person in sim
gle day. Attempts to check the spread
of this pest are being made by means
of federal and local guarantees. Un-
der this quarantine the government
maintains a supervision over the move
ment of articles likely to carry the
pest from infested areas to other Sec
tions Of the country. But the greatest
drawback lies in the ease with which
if may be carried by individuals on
clothing, and in vehicles. Numerous
instances have been noted where
beetles nave luuS tDCSL dANiuCitoiiS
carried out of infested areas.
Another foreign pest in comparative
ly recent years which has made its
appearance in this country is the Eu-
ropean corn borer. InfeStations have
been discovered in several Eastern
states, and recently heavy infestatlons
have been discovered in Canada, pre-
senting a more immediate menace to
our corn belt. AS its name implies,
this insect bores into the corn plant
and kills it, thus effectually prevent
ing the maturing of ears on the plant.
The chinch bug, an ally of the corn
borer. does greatest damage to corn.
1t is the usual habit of the chinch bug
first to attack fields of wheat, rye, or
barley: and its presence often, is I'M
noticed because the injuries inflicted
upon these crops are obscure or of no
apparent Importance. About harvest
time the bugs leave the small grain
and crawl over the surface OF the
ground to the nearest fields of corn,
where they begin at once to wreak Sc
we're injury.
Cornfields may be protected and the
migrating bugs trapped about the time
| of wheat harvest by blowing a deep
| furrow around the edges of the field.
| The bugs will fall into the ditch and
can be easily killed by crushing them
with a log dragged back and forth
through the ditch. Another method is
to dig shallow post holes in the bottom
of the ditch, at intervals of about TWEEN
| ty feet into which the bugs, crawling
| along the ditch bottoms, will fall. They
can then be destroyed by kerosene.
/ Another notorious insect whose func.
/ ton it is. in the order of nature, TO take
| bread out of our mouths, is the Hes
| sian fly, so called because the Hesslan
/ soldiers were believed to have brought
/ ii over from Europe during the Reyo-
| luton. This pest gives its attention
almost wholly to wheat, upon which it
levies an average annual tax OF ap-
proximately 10 per cent. In certain
| years when it was most active it
destroyed as much as 100,0O0,0OO bush
els of wheat. After the Hessian fly
has once thoroughly infested the crops
of wheat there is no known means of
| saving it. and the only known means
Of preventing damage from the lilies
/ is to keep them out cf the wheat.