Tuesday, November 7, 1905.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT.
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The Cabbage Hair Worm is Absolutely.
Harmless.
Messrs. Editors: That the cab-
Do Bats Carry Bed-bugs?
Messrs. Editors : If you don't con
sider it a foolish auerv. and in ad-
. I tti on Vl r v n 1 t
ba"e iiair worm possesses poisonous w auswer m your columns,
properties is an opinion sun ciung i w uoo oumc your scien
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to by many of our good citizens,
while others are in doubt as to its
real identity. Several inquiries from
correspondents have been received at
the- Department of Agriculture this
fall asking for information about
this creature, while in some cases
specimens were sent in for identifier
tific men say whether or not bats
carry around bed-bugs
It is a common saying in some lo
calities, thaT" bats carry around hed-
bugs and that they will cause rooms
that they may have" entered to be
come inf ested with buers.
iriease ignore this query, if it is
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one who really knows, it will be a
source of great satisfaction to an in
terested reader. . E. S.
Henrico Co., Va.
(Answer by Prof. T. Gilbert Pear-
' " . 'r. son.)
I have written to some of those
naturalists in America, who are in
y-v i yienn I ft Rlllv nTIA Kfl 1-f ! Jo V
tion. une person writes: , :xnese I uwwcu u.
little things (cabbage snakes) are
set tine: right common and" we would
hp fflad to know whether they are
poisonous or not" A teacher: "Would
like to Know someuung about cab
bage snakes which r are said to be
roisonous and cause death to people' I
. 11 .1 - ' 1 1 Jl 1 I
eating caDDage wiin wnicn iney nave
So it can be seen that the great stir me position to give lnlormation
about this worm, which was created yarding tie inquiry of E. S. The
by unreliable newspaper reports dur- pjies receivea irom tnem add but
in? the fall of 1903 and 1904. left J1"1 to w hat befound in the
behind erroneous impressions which ia7t worKf on "rai mstory.
have not yet died out. About 450 species of bats are
The cabbage hair worm, or "cab- P10 ;? exist m me world. The
W snake" of nomilar account, is uab w. oi course, not a Dira, put in
a small cylindrical creature best de- J mammal, a milk giver, and belongs
scribed as resembling a piece of good to;f same class- of animals as the
sized basting thread, or a strand of ca c?w. the whale, and man him-
corn silk. They are white, or whitish f11' nymg, tne motner.oat usual
in color. When mature they usually J carries her young with her, as 1
measure from four to eight inches nave on ' more tW one occasion
i .i t i .... r r. .i i Tiroven in tti v HnTisTarvrirm nv -nnmn rr
m lengtn ana aoout one-mteenxn oi i f, . ,
on ln'll in tbWss Onfi stWty ine young clinging to tne nippies on
Wpirpd nt the -Dermrtment measured the .breast 4f the mother. The great
twelve inches in length, an uncom- J0"7, ?f bals ff?? entirely upon
mnnlv lnnrr nnp. These worms - are I u uieiw insects, aitnougn tnere are
UiVltl - v - i J 1 . ,
suxiie lixiKiv oues in tue troijics, nota
bly the "flying foxes" of theTalay
Archipelago which feed wholly jfcrpon
fruit. These bats are of enormous
size, many of them being over three
feet in expanse of wings. So de-
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entirely without organs of locomo
tion and move by a wriggling mo
tion. ,
Several srjecies of hair worms have
been found on cabbage, but the most
common one is Mermis albicans.
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At the solicitation
ofCoL R. J. Red
ding, of the Geor
gia Experiment
Station, we put
th is double box,
combined drill on
the market over
four years ago
our single box hav
ing been used prior
to this.
This particular species is parasitic J??6 are they to cultivated fruit
to insects, i. e., passes the greater
part of its life inside' the bodies of
insects. The young are born m the
ground during the spring. Soon af
ter birth they burrow upward and
enter the bodies of such insects as
lurk under leaves and rubbish at the
that there is a law in the United
States which prohibits their importa
tion to this ' country, and so rigidly
.is this law enforced, that no one
specimen can be imported even .for
exhibition m the zoological garden.
Mr. Gernt S. Miller, of the United
States National Museum, Washing-
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As some of these insects, para
sitized by the worm, are among those
which feed to a more or less extent
upon cabbage, it of ten happens that
tie 'hair worm's host is upon the
crucifer at the very, time when the
worm wishes to leave its host's body.
Hence the fully-developed creature,
departing from its place of develop
ment, finds itself upon the" cabbage
bead and, as instinct leads it to go
downward, it consequently burrows
into the cabbage head deep between
the leaves. The cabbage hair worm
does -not select cabbage through its
own choice, but is accidently trans
bats are not known to carry bed
bugs. I would not attempt- to say
that this never happens, but I think
that the popular belief arises from
the fact that a-wingless fly (Nycteri-
biidae), commonly found on bats,
somewhat resembles a bed-bug m
form." C : A
Yours very truly,
T. GILBERT PEARSON,
Sec. State Audubon Society.
From an Appreciative Virginia Reader.
Norfolk Va., Oct. 27, 1905.
My Dear Sir : "While I am a very
busy medical man, and not much
f erred there through the agency of I time to get you up any new sub-
sects. it harms tne caDoage in no i scnoers. yet l wisn w blip jusu a
ay except to decrease its market1 moment and tell you how valuable a
ucuiann. . lournai you arc iscuuiui; uud wwmj.
ewsnatier reTiorta commenting on I arid in mv humble opinion The Pro-
te injurious nature of the hair worm I gressive Farmer must revolutionize
are entirely groundless. Such tales I agriculture in these three states. -1
as have been concocted of "persons
taken ill and vomiting," or "entire
families being poisoned" through, eat-
inff cabbage affected by these worms,
are false, and, if you will pardon an
Americanism, I would label this class I serve.
have a nice farm near our growing
city, and read your paper when I;
drive out to it. Will try "to get you
some new subscribers. Great suc
cess to you, which you richly de-
of articles as an nil-ton common type
f "newspaper science." These crea
tures are perfectly harmless, possess
110 poisonous properties whatever,
cannot bite ,or sting.: Extensive ex
periments by a medical man m len
Most respectfully,
LIVIUS LANKFORD,
President City Board of Health.
The Lord gets His best soldiers
out of -the highlands of affliction. -"J
lessee have proven conclusively that I Spurgeon.
me cahha
toxic effect, even when taken alive
m the digestive tract.
. . R.S.WOGLUM,
Acting Entomologist, Raleigh.
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and something to hope f or. -T. Chal
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