Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 15, 1922, Page 3

H INSECT ENEMIES OF HOME GARDEN : Some of Pésts Devour Nearly Every -Form of Vegetation and. Do Immense Damage. CUTWORMS INIURE TOMATOES | Arnen_lc and Parls Green are- Deadly Poisons and :Must .Be, Mandled With Great Care—Rotation of Crops Is_Advisable, (Prepared by the United States Department Eradvist oy ® From the standpoint of their food plants, injurigus insects may. be grouped. roughly Into .two .classes: First, those which are choice feeders and ordinarily attack 'only a single crop, or crops of a single class, al- though when they are’ extremely abundant they may resort to other crops or weeds. - Examples ure the asparagus beetles and asparagus miner and the large tomato worms, which confine their feeding to plants of a single famlly. Second, those known as general feeders—insects which are not particular as to their food plants. Some of- these devour nearly every -form- of vegetable that grows In the garden. These include cutworms and other caterpillars; TS, or “grub wWorms,” ‘are. the larvae or young of ‘the' brown May or .llmo beetles, wifh which ‘most persons.are familiar. The heetles occur In the "Notth hte as August, while in_the South they" a) pear in"April or earlier. ‘Control, efféctive Cross plomng dnd- deep diskiig ‘are sometimes ntceaury, ~and the’; ‘ground shiouid . be disturbed often and_kept clean. of weeds so that the grubs éan liminated. Rotation of :rnps. avolding the pianting of potatoes, beets, sweet corn, ‘and ‘other _crops ‘o land- ‘which has _,heen for somé time in the saine crops, or in’ stnwfierflu, grasses, or weeds' [ Fertilizers, especlally | iy advisable. * kainit, as a-heavy top-dressing are of benefit. Gas 1bbe ig.-valnable, Hogs; if allowed the run of the newly plowed garden, or when. the crop is_off, will eat large numbers of grubs: . Domestic fowls. will pick. up grubs on -newly plowed land.- Sce Farmérs’ Bulletin 643, “Common White Grubs.” Wireworms. Wireworms, like white grubs, are ‘common. pests 1o. the garden and are also general feeders. ' They. are ‘the offspring of snapping beetles, of “snap-bugs,”- and’ are of long oval form. Thelr tastes are similar to thosé of the white grubs. ‘They attack and' often do great injury to potatoes and other -plants’ bearing tubers, as well as to carrots beetx, sweet potntoes, apd onjons: " cmtrol.—-l‘he remedies advised for white grubs ‘apply also to wireworms, | with, due care In selecting land for planting and:jn fall plowing and crop i ‘uunm mm. BME(QI‘ ME‘M are common . !lm pests and are. very. di Euctivé . to vegetables; especially bear¥;:peas, po- tatoes, and. beets. They travel in thq same mapner as.army worms and are sometimes called “army bletlea" for this reason. -They are hungry feeders and travel frequently in lines, eating o §| everything in their path, chewing up The Common Wireworm—A, Adult; B, Larva; C, Last Segments of Same; D, Pupa—All Enlarged. several forms: of leat-beetles.and.flea- beetles, plant-lice, tbrips, blister beetles, and others. When abundant, some of these pests do great dnma[e; sweeping over. large_areas- and..ruin- ing entira erops before. they can be stopped. Cutworms. _the ‘plants_have made about one-third Tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and other | 4ruck plants, particularly. when s!n,rte(l under glass, are likely to be Injured by cutworms when transplanted. These appear in. great numbers im the spring and early summer,. and the injury is of complete . before the gardener notices.it.- The. chief in- Jury 1s due to the. severing of the stems of young plants at about the surface. of the ground. Ope.cutworm can destroy many plants in a single night by cutting, ofi mere than it can devour. Control.—The best remedy s what is called “petsemed bait” For use in a small garden take 1 peck of dry bran, add 4 ounces of White aisenie or Paris. green, and: mix- thoroughly with 2 gallons of water in which has been stirred half a gallon of sorghum or other cheap molasies. g For a large garden, use 1 bushel of bran to 1 pound of the arsenical mixed The Ash-Gray Blister Beetle. with 8 gallong of ;w;ter‘ contafning half a gallon of molasses. Thils 1s enough for trufinl 4 or 5 acres of cultivated crops. t After the maish has stood for sevéral hours, scatter it in- lumps the'size of a marble over the garden .whére the injury is beginning to appear and | about the basés of the plants set ‘out. Apply late in the day so as to place the poison about the plants before night, which is the time when cut- worms are active. Apply a second or third time if necessary. It is advisable to keep young chil- dren, live stock, and chickens away from this bait. Clean cultural methods and crop rotation are advisable, “as are also deep fall plowing and disking, to prevent recurrences of cutworm at- tacks. Experienced growers become expert in detecting cufworms and re- move them by hand.. This often can be done with profit on small patches. White Grubs. When new- land is used for lant- ing vegetables, especially land that has been in sod:or.grewn up with sweeds, white grubs are almost cer- tain to make their appearance, some- times in large numbers, doing great damage to plants from the time they attafn any. growth undil the frult is . ; to the head. NOW READ THE WANT AD COLUMNS OF THIS PAPER apparently rgdfe than they need for | food. They are slender in form, some- what. soft bodied, and colored various- it ly. Some specles are perfectly black, some are-yellow -with black stripes, others are of the same color with several: light stripes, some are gray, and others are gray spotted with black. Blister bgetles_are particularly abund- ant in the Southwest, but occur prac- tically everywhere. Different species. appear at different times, usually after Control. —uu arsenate- applied at | the very ocutset ef. attack is the bgl! A Whlu Grub or May lemo—E * Larva or Grub; A, Bestie; B, Pupa. remedy. In some portions of the Southwest. lines.of men and_ boys.go through fields driving beetles before them until. they.reach windrows of hay, straw, or other dry vegetable matter. previously prepared along the leewarad side of the field. The windrow 1s then fired and the beetles burned. PlantLice. Practically.all vegetables, especially cucumbers, cabbages, and peas, suffer ‘considerable age from attack by ‘gmall, - 0f +ingects commonly ‘called “lice” or “apbis,” but better known as”plant-lice. These work for the most part on-the lower sides of me leaves, which : become- curled o1 a herwise destroyed by loss of thelr vital' juices. ‘They give off a swee! mixfure called honeydew, ‘which at- tracts ants, files, and other lnseets. Plant-lice increase with great rapidity by the. female” giving birth to living young. The different kinds vary. in: color from _light to.dark green or nearly black, graylsh, brown ellow, and réd. They ve eflmmuvd; long legs. lni ha ‘pairs of transpnnm or clear wlugs ey feed by ncflng Juices of’ tlie- plants threugh a beak. Familiar ex- awples are the melon g , péa anh!s and. cahBage: S Control.—If he plants ale gm\\n under: glass, plant-lice may' Je killed by fumigation with a nicotine prepars- tion. The, form suitable for this work. is papef soaked iz nicotine which when lighted causes &-smudge. - Sprinkling plants with fine tobacco dust is of some value, especially if applied early Warrant Growing Beans as One «of. Main Crops, The soy bean may be combined ad- vantageously-in many systems of crop rotation. The United States’ Depart- ment of Agrieniture says it is especial- 1y adapted to short rotations, taklng eitlier an entire season or- part of a season following some grain crop. The cash value of the seed is sufficient to encourage growing the beans as one of the main crops. When the whole sea- ‘son is thus devoted to soy beans, they take any place in a rotation stem where corn_can be used. Deep plov\lnx is ‘the Am Lig Aet\ml Ruler of the Amemclm People Today At the Supreme Court ~ By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, U. 8. Senatop From Wisconsls, =~ I p\;rposo shortly to introduce a proposed nmgnd- ment. to the Constitution. I would amend thq,,C@Ql tution-so as to provide: (1) That no inferior federal judge shall set aside a law of congress on the gn \md that it is unmnstxtu(mnal (2) that'if the Sufi]‘eme court assumes to decide any law of congress uncohisti- tutional, or, by interpretation, undertakes to gsscrt a‘public policy at variance with the statutory dedlara- tion of congress—which alone under our system_ is authorized to determine the public policies of govern- ment—the congress may by re-enacting the law,nul- lify the action of the court. Thereafter the.law would .remain in full force and. effect, precisely the same as thioughi tite court had _never held it to be unconstitutional. A century and s half ago our forefathers shed their blood in: nnler that they might establish upon. this continent a govemmen! deriving its | just powers from the. consent of the governed, in which the will Gf.the. | people, expressed through their duly elected representatives, should be sovereign. By a. process of gradual encroachments, uncertain and timid _at first, but now confident and aggressive, sovereignty has been. w;esied from. the people and usurped by the courts. Today. the.actual ruler of the American people i is.the Supreme court of ‘the United States. Tlie-law is what they ay.it 15, and "ot what the. people, through congress, enacts. Aye, even the Constitutiort of the.Umwd States is not, what ifs plain terms dedara but what these mna meu “eon- strue it to be, Ip fack, ‘five of these: nine: men afe actually the supreme rulers, for by.s. bate mu]onty the court has repeatedly overriddén the will of the people as declared by their representatives in congress, and has constrned the. Constitution to mean whatever suited their peculiar economic and politieal views. The nine lawyers who constitute the Supreme court are in the morning when the dew is on. | SOY.BEAN-IN CROP ROTATION | Cash*Viite ‘of Séed s Sufficient to.! 1" plaged.in presidential-appointment, 2 AIVES OF UNREMITTING TOIL Chinese Coolies Never Know Respite From Labor of Pughing. Barrows, for Bare. Existence, Labprors in America who think they have a hard life should see these Chinese’ coolies. Imagine wheeling a barrow with a four or five hundred pound load for hundreds of miles over roads difficult to travel even on horse- back! Usually.there. are two men to a bar-. row. * Fhe one: 8t the handlés, by means of a 3trap over. his shoulders, tikes much of the weight from his arms, Jeaving his hands more’ or less nnunz and’/ straining, ,with the tow_thelr:half-naked hrough' foot-deep yel- low: dust, lifting over rocks and drag- ging. up hills; ‘at night gulping a bowl of soup or macaroni and, half dead 4 wlth twtlgue falling. asleep. on the ground fh the fun courtyard among the pigs, chickens and mules—so they | live, day after day, year in and year ouf, With nothing else. to look. for- ward to. All this for fifty or sixty coppers a day, or dbout eighteen cents in Amerl- can money, Is it any wonder they seek oblivion in opium?—Roy Chapman Andrews In Asia. FEW.BUCKS NOW IN U. S. ARMY Number of Trained Daughboys Has Been Reduced, Bringing Total te Not Mare Than 20,000. Doughboys—Just plain buck privatcd of infaptry—are becoming almost as searce: in the regular army as- shaye- tails were some time ago. Every time there. is a reduction in the size of the army, the number of buck privates is -very. perceptibly cut down. At the nresent time, it is sald that there are sitions of power. for life, not by the votes of the people but by not more than 20,000 pati, unspectal- tzed “bneks” in the rauks of the TUnited States army. Thgze;m ounly 47,837 men in all branche: the_foo! regiments while there we! ofe than 53,000 enlisted meni-iin the Infantry when the war startelin AprH, 1917, Tmpending additional legucllons In the size of “the' army will; dhow a turther drop in_the nuniber of pri- vates, officers say, and 18a¥e. the in- fantry only & “framework of > highly trained ‘specialists ‘with j\lst a few humble bhayonet-wielding hucu here and there to-give, etchy su;,gus!lon of a wartlipé foreé. " This framework of specialists will be maintained, the War department declares, that ln an emergency the army may be able’ to qulekly exps and, filling, in the_ vacant ranks with raw recrults wlhio, wlth B few Mg will ‘mgke” oufi-*flgfi uguy tratied wachfi — More Than Two Wesk: The Russian ‘caléndar, thirti days behind ours, rather annoyed' some Amerleatt business men who'tried’ to place orders in south"Russin: dhridg | the renctionary regime of General Denikin. Ohe of’tiem In pafticiar was slow to grasp, for instance, why our Jurie 14 $hould bé the Russiah Juue 1. At length, when' tlte idea had)) finally penetrated him, he. still shook his ' head’ incredulously, remarking— “No, siree! Yqu can't make:me be- lleve, that. these “péople are o mfore than, thirteen daye bebind the rest of the world. - s hindfeds-and years, [ at that."—Rdbert Dunii” {n the New York World. . Something “Similar. “Are scientists still trying to, learn the monkey lunguage?” asked Mr. Glipping., “I don’t know,” said Mr. Dubwaite, “hut if they want to. hear a pretty falr substitute they ought fo listen to my youngest daughter talking to ope. of her rah-rah friends over the telephone.” k ‘flfllllllllllllllllllllllllIIllllIIIIIII|IIIIIIIII||l|mi||mmll| Shoulder Veal, per ?b Veal Stew, per 1b Sunbrite Cleanser, 5 SATURDAY WE OFFER SPECIAL Fancy Spring Chickernis' and Hens, per Ib Egg Plant—Pickling Onions—Jumbo Celery % Head Lettuce—Hubbard Squash—Canteloupe Michigan Concord Grapes, extra good, per bskt... Jello, any flavor .............. 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Mis' NiX returning from a down téwn trip found -the | house filled ‘with smoke: which’ prov- ‘ed to-be back.of the fireplace. it vas extinguished with chemical We have be;q too busy to get our. rg[u]ar a 'reudy for press time today, but will have some unusual speelxh for Saturday— CALL AND SEE US SAVE MONEY 9! the Meat Market FOR SATURDAY Beef Pot Roast, lb. .. .. i ‘Boiling Beef, b ....... 7c Rouqd Steak, Ib ........ 20¢ Sirloin Steak, Ib - ... ' Silver. Leaf, Lard, 1b. Picnic. Hams, lh Bacon, 1b EDD BROS, —Phane 86—, \ + Coder, n Mason fruit jars, 2 lbs for. " Pot Roast, per Ib SPECIALS THIS WEEK 5 At Clifford’s Canning Pears nnd Grape: This Week FOR FRIDAY & SATURDAY Celery, 3 bunches for Honey, in pint Mason fruit jars Honey, in quart Mason jars Macaroni, in '10-1b box ... Egg Noodles, 3 pkgs for .. Krispy:Crackers, in 4:1b box . Douglas Gloss Starch, 5-1b pkg Bacon; in squares, per lb Toilet Soap,'in large bars, 6 for. 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