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Saturday, December 21, 1512.1 : .VNUSUAL DAMAGE BY INSECTS -comet Vthaw -in mid-Winter and he F . r , A V : . comes out of his quarters, tand then! 11 !f as J the . Experience IThlg' Tear ' ' i8 ?n6,xt ln" a 001(1 snapi he isllkelyl , ,ia.wm.nr-- to be a dead Insect So I reason it cepuon- that unusually Targe numbers of our ally LOla. s -,: v - . , insects passed last winter . successful- 1 rpHE experience "of this year gives ly because of the steady, ;consUnt: J JL -Vemphatic denial to a certain pop- cum '-" - ' J iiilarildea, -: r v : The whole system of cold storage; Kach winter we hear nfionlft sav. for meate.eggs,, nsh,. etc7, is based; ,and .local papers often repeat it) on this same idea. Put 'these Whiles, that "the . severe .' weather .of . winter' borage where they stay xoid, and j . j - " . . . . ". . - Al 1- It . . . ' . ' vwilllcill out:ihe insect .enemies of our, - ,"ejr t - a ions um, ouxj cropB. 'liasi w mrer 1 1 is liriz ; was . -r ; niucn -tne iost severe or any witnm - , v,a io.V ..iajA jlt., n.u : Now there are a few Dests which that, ir this idea -were" founded on Beems tojne tnat extra cold win-, yfaetl shtmm control;, and :these; . -L.' ' : Tl 111. M . " i n - J. HU1 Lll WO.I II til I'.lllll llt I MIITHI V I -r" 1 1 I i "-'-"-v v v . . . years, ann nave not , yet -Decome vi.r--; , ' . -T : tnorougniy accximatea., ano :terra ny.. of ;our standard Insect-pests were la onB nf th aTlf1 ftM. C2i): isss less -destructive than usual, but on lie contrary, the list of abnormally gar cane be'etle ( mentioned above ) is jnore especially ::a Southern 1 insect. . jTAHtHII "! TTA -1 Ti IB. 1 WAV itni net. t , n o u L " - "Yet the cold of last whiter did not ualTho year 112 has brought more fieem to check them. So -perhaps rthey, complaints . of .insect damage to my been here 'long enough to be Office rthan any .year of ttie present acelimdted) even tho they are imml- ??tUJ J8;6,?-0 a cn- grants : from -a warmer clime. On aiderable extent this is -because the the other hand the potato beetle", injects , -weT helped rather than HeBsian fly and white cabbage but checked, by the severe winter. axfi immrgrants from colder , ltfmay -be of interest. ;to know regions, so of course, -we would ex fhat particular, insects were abnor- pect them to go thru last winter mally destructive, "and lto know successfully, and they certainly did! when 'their serious ravages began. - There' is one insect which illus-I;-will;state the' facts ,first, and then .trates my,; point exactly. The cotton theorize a little if youwill ) , after- bdll-weevil ( native of Mexico and ya?d..' - , t - -Southward) was greatly reduced in :During. January,"' February and number last winter. March the complaints were normal, Careful studies in Mississippi, hut during April-the special outbreak Louisiana and Texas in the spring "began, beginning with the larger corn showed that it lost much in territory stalkjborer, the first report of ,which and numbers. But as the season ad- was .April 1, .and the number, and . vanced it spread again -over the old severity 1 of complaints indicated ground, and now that the season is more than usual damage. , here for its invasion of new territory, On April 25, complaints began to " we may expect it to take ; in about as come -in of the pickle :worm boring much new ground as usual. " into squashes and cantaloupes, and 'We know of no way to take advant- it :dfd thousands .of dollars damage, age of these facts - other than to get being5 by far the most destructive of rid of Tubbish and remnants which any year on record. - . , furnish winter quarters for the in Only, two -days-later (April 27) sects. But it is certainly worth our v the xlm leaf beetle became conspic- while to know what to expect and rnous as 'a pest on shade elms in the what not to expect, and then be pret Piedmont section, and was more than pared for the emergencies. "No one usually destructive. -p-r . could : foretell what particular in !Dn :May-24, we received thef first sects would afflict us this year, but of -a series of "complaints 4;he cot- 1 did tell the farmers at the institutes tony -maple louse . attacking ' shade last winter ; ( while the weather was maples On. June 5, rthere; was com- at ;its coldest,) "that the cold of -win--plaint of. the sngar cane beetle at- ter would give us noTelief. tacking comi, and this .is of special - FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR. tnteTest, as this is one of the insects ' State department Agriculture', which we might reasonably expect to Raleigh, N. . have been checked by the ' severe ' , winter j (reasons later.) v u ., , , . a T j On July 15 (schedule time for the Self-Boiled Lime-Sulfur No Good pest;)'; we began to hear from the . ' - for San Jose Scale, cxred, spider and Itas to the use wide-spread and more- destrucUve )fl 0f self-boiled lime-sulfur solu than usual. The last epidemic was t0 combat the San Jose scale, that t)f . the fall-army worm, (a dif- W.E. Hinds, of the Alabama T3x feront insect from the worm on cot- periment station says: ton of 'last year,) which began July We cannot depend upon the heat 20; rand this fall army worm appart of the lime t0 produce combination eTttly pToduced at -least three distinct; that wiU D6 effective as a winter destructive.. broods, -though not all in wagh agalnst San Jose 8Caie. 1 the same localities. feaP that the wTitere recommending Now- why should the extra cold tnls confuse the preparaUon of self weather ,of last winter have helped -boiled lime-sulfur for summer use these 'insect pests? " ' for brownrot with the fire-boiled ; It -has been :provd5by experiment ,wash f0r the scale. An ineffective uiav insects can uvo vuru iuug wasa means waste or tne .materials, period of - steady cold, better tnan abor and perhaps the rum of the thru 'the same tferiod xJf fluctuating 0'rchard also. temperatures, warm and cold alter- "There is' of course, latitude for nating. The same principle holds :Bome variation in the proportion of good -with : ourselves. "We;have less :iime and sulfur, ranging between 15 sickness (provided we .are in normal p0unda and;20. pounds of each. Con health to begin with) when, we have sidering the danger of getting, a poor steady cold winter weather, than grade of lime, and the cheapness of when ;we have severe freezes one that material, I believe it advisable week, and: warm thawing . weather to use slightly more lime than sul the next.Lv The variableness, fickle- fUr, 1 would advise 18 or .20 pounds ness, : changeableness, of winter . 0f Jim and 15 pounds, of sulfur to hurts us more "than " the normal make 50 gallons , of wash. It is nec- cold And . so with an . insect essary to boil this for at least 0 which ' 'is - hidden away in . some ' minutes, and betteT, for 45 .or, more, crevice to pass the winter. If it re- "to get the most effective wash.".' niAinA .nnii. u. .flififina awav tne. sea- - : - aou in Btupiu, torpm-cuuuiuuu, uuu , piea6 enCiegea l. vlth ume p!ae' r THIRTEEN HELPFUL VOLUMES WRITTEN BY EXPERTS FOR ONLY ' NINE PdDILLAlRS CSII A JUNE, OP INFORMATION AT SMALL COST. TrogressiTe 'Farmers know that It pay to read, "to experiment, to get out and keep out of rats. This Library contains books for the wife, the daughter, tho boy, "as well as for the farmer. , ' ' Cat ut nd mail coupon to either of our offices and we will send circular describing this . choice -collection of books, or if accompanied by cash, we will deUver the library attractively boxed, carriage paid, to your door; It pays to sip knowledge from Its very fountain head. . B.C. HEATH & COMPANY 12fl Boylton Street. -. Boston, Mass. 239 TVest 39th Street, New York City. 23 S. "Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. (JOUPON v Please send ONE HEATH'S FARMERS' LIBRARY. 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