Show Proper Sowing of Wheat Will Kill Hessian Fly Wheat Wheat sown too soon serves as fall pasture for the Hessian fly fi- fione one of ot the crops crop's worst enemies and enables the pest to live over and cut down the wheat crop of ot the following season On Ou the other hand band by delaying sowIng sowIng sow- sow sowing Ing until after atter the fly free freeh dates announced announced an nn- locally by county agricultural agriculture agents farmers can break the life Ufe cycle cy cy- cycle cle of ot Hessian fly and rid their wheat crop of or the pest the year following This Is because the fly has two life Ute lifecycles lifecycles cycles a year Each cycle If It completed completed completed com com- has hns four tour stages To cut Into the th succession at any point breaks up the whole business From eggs laid on the leaves maggots hatch These maggots feed on wheat stalks near the base of ot the leaves sucking juice that should go to make grain and damaging damaging damaging dam dam- aging the stalk so BO that It breaks and lodges casU easily This done the maggots go Into a or flaxseed form torm that lives on In the soil Thus by concerted late Inte sowing of ot this crop a county can con smash by starvation that fall brood of ot fly 11 And without a fall brood there can be no spring brood But one or two fields of ot seeded early wheat can infect a whole hole locality |