Show STA STARVE R VE 0 OUT U T THE HESSIAN N EL FLY Y till the lie hessian lly fly being in tile flaxseed ll stage in wheat stubble and in wheat front from june till Septen september iber or even october in the south can call be destroyed by carrying out the following nieth methods of control 1 burn where possible and safe all stubble and ruined wheat 2 disk all stubble and ruined wheat i immediately in 1 I e after harvest where burning is im able 3 plow ilow under do deeply aply till nil stubble and ruined ridged wheat fields before august 15 barruw tile the ground and roll if necessary harrow disk pasture or otherwise effectually destroy all volunteer wheat 5 As a iii measure ensure preparatory to sowing plow as early and deeply as existing conditions will pern permit lit dik di k harrow li arrow and roll until it a thoroughly pulverized coni compact pact seed bed is obtained 6 do not sow wheat until utter after lly fly free date 7 rotate your crops if possible FIGHT HESSIAN FLIES lie loss in ill the 1915 wheat crop front from tile the ages of tile hessian lly fly in ill some sections will be the greatest in several years from rune june to to october 1914 the department issued repeated warnings und and advisory statements telling if f the impending danger of a serious outbreak of the pest during tile the year 1915 it is too late to do anything any thin toward lessening the devastations devastation of the hessian lly fly in ill this years crop nv new is the time however to begin the work of saving front from the lly fly tile millions of a res of wheat which will be planted on oil the present infested area within tile next f few OW months in order to understand the situation fully it is is necessary to know what the lly fly is like lim w it is iq capable of causing t such enor enormous losses and ajo liow it transforms front from the egg to the fully developed insect comparatively few far farmers tire are able to recognize this post pest excepting in ill what is known as the flaxseed stage which even then is often for the egg there are two generations of the ll hessian essian fly each year one in the fall und and one in ill the following spring tho latter being the chil children drou of tile former therefore if there were no hies flies to lay eggs in ill the alie fall it stands to reason that could be none to lay illy eggs in ill baring in ill the course of its development the insect passes through four different stages s the adult is a small long legged dark colored lly fly very much resembling a mosquito tile egg is very small long slender and of a shining roddi sli color anil and is placed by tin the female uy fly in the grooves groove on oil the alio upper tipper surface of tile the wheat leaves both in spring and fall the maggot hatches froin tile the ct egg ag makes its way down dowil tile leaf and itself between tile leaf sheath and tile the stalk of alio plant where in some eases a doarn bozon or more may bo be found pa partly artly overlapping one another when it beronies bc bec onies full grown its skin hardens burdens changing to brown and front from its form and color it il is theia commonly known its as tile flaxseed which is tile or resting stage of oatlie the insect beginning about abolia april I 1 flies emerge front from alio I 1 flaxseed that llave passed th alio 0 winter in ill tint fit tall I 1 wheat whether early sown or vol volunteer these flies deposit their eggs on oil tile leaves of tile plants the eggs hatch into from 4 1 to 8 days and the maggots become grown in about 20 to TO days and alien change to flax seeds tin s constitutes tile spring generation after harvest lie ol 01 this can call le ile found in ill the stubble just above the ground or often higher up tip where tile the straw lias has broken brokell over while as a stated tho alio hessian fly ei emerges nerges from froin the hie flaxseed stage throughout an all extend concluded on oil page G FIGHT HESSIAN FLIES concluded from froin page 3 ed period of time dine within tile entire area of its distribution in ill imy ally given locality this enier gel gonce ice of the adults in destructive I 1 occupies but blit it a tow few days the life of tile female after she makes lier her way way wicy forth fl tile flaxseed probable proba blu does nut not extend beyond a period of alv live e or six duys days thus it is eliat a delay in ill wheat sow BO alig in n the full fall after tile 11 blics i have appeared ind and largely laren larg fly ly disappeared be becomes coines of such vital lice alm ill ilm likht hies flies of the second or fall generation begin to issue from froin tile eeds about the il middle liddle of august and continue to to issue issue until about tim last of october ac according corling tu to latitude the maxi occur ing during alie last two weeks of september Sep tein ber or tile the first weela in ill october depending dep anding on oil tile locality tin this second generation infests anft ats volunteer wl wheat 1 cat az and 1 d at all I 1 sow sown beauro tile lly ily free date to the Ilax nax seeds of tile te collot gu generation iteration remain on oil the plants of if fall sown wheat till april of tile next year when adults issue from froin then their i and begin begill another soja geanon soll |