Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 5, 1915, Page 3

S— Scientific Farming PESTS DESTROYED BY SHEEP How They May Be Used to Kill Win- tering Insects. {Prepared by the United States depart- ment of agriculture.] That many insect pests are protected during the winter by useless vegeta- tion along country roadsides and that the insects may be destroyed and the undergrowth may be turned Into val- uable mutton and wool are facts not generally realized by farmers. The de- partment of agriculture’s specialist in charge of cereal and forage insect in- vestigations recommends the pasturing of a flock of sheep in these places dur- ing the winter months as a most valu- able measure for destroying great num- bers of insects that might later. in the spring spread to and breed In adjoining fields of grain. Where weeds are out- side of a fence or where no crop is growing in the field pasturing sheep in summer will, of course, keep down the full crop of insect harboring vegeta- tion. The amount of land covered by use- less matted vegetation growing along ditch banks, fences and roads is of no small extent in America. This land, as OOOPPPOOOSO: A FARM FLOCK AT WORK. a rule, cannot be burned over because of the dunger to fences; besides, much of the common blue grass thriving in such localities is always too green to burn amd serves to protect the thick mulch of dead grass which accumu- lates beneath from year to year and torms an ideal refuge for all manner of pests. A small tlock of sheep, given the range of fields and roads at this seusou of the year and where: thereare no growing crops, will dispose of near- Iy all useless vegetation. Only a little grain need be added to fatten them. If the farmer does not wish to keep the sheep permanently he may often pur. e “feeders™ in carload lots at the e stockyards when they are just in condition to be fattened and later dis- pose of them. Over the prairie country sheep will ent off grass and shoots of larger brush and plants, leaving the ground so bare of protection that insects either will not congregate there or gain protection there after the pasturing is done. In the east, where trees, bushes and brambles euter into consideration, if this brush is cleaned off in spring the sheep will in late fall dispose of the young growth that may push up through the summer. By herding the sheep along the roadsides and properly shifting them about according to con- dition in the fields all of this waste ground can be wade to yield a return to the owner and incidentally add to the value of the farm, On account of their light weight sheep can be pastured in fields when the ground would be too wet for beavier animals. Their small feet, en- tomologists find, are also more effectual in destroying insects on the surface ot the ground than the hoofs of larger animals. The list of dungerous pests that win- ter along neglected roadside margins, is long and formidable. The chinch bug. the spring grain aphis, or *“green bug.”’ and the clover and alfalfa seed chalcis fly have all been found by in- vestigafors wintering in great numbers in such undergrowth. Under certain favorable conditions in the fall the Hessian fiy also breeds freely in quack grass. and in Canada one specialist has traced the western grass stem saw fly directly from this grass to the wheat fields. This saw fly does considerable damage to wheat in the Dakotas. Young stalk borers (Papapiema nitela) were noticed in very young oats as early as 1884 by the department's spe- cialist, under conditions indicating that the parent moths had spent the winter In the matted grass along the border of the fields. The department’s investigator has successfully put the winter sheep grazing plan into practice with some three miles of roadside and even more of fence margins. Many successful farmers have also tried it with profit, but they have not always renlized that in addition to the destruction of the useless vegetation they were destroying insect pests that would have become positively dangerous later on. KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK ¥ SOLWAY * KR KKK K KKK KKK K KKK 0. A. Sime was a business visitor at Bemidji Friday. M. Groff of Bemidji was a business visitor here Wednesday. Nels Bye spent a few hours at Pine- wood Monday. Mrs. P. J. Rock was a business vis- itor at Bemilji Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sullivan .and , | enttaren of Wilton spent Sunday with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jackson and children visited with relatives a few hours at Bemidji Wednesday. D. F. Sullivan arrived home Tues-| 'Miss Laura Sullivan was a Be- day after speiiditig the past two|midji caller Monday. two weeks in Minneapolis ,the guest of his son, John, and other relatives. 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