Show IS destructive pest ranks next to hessian fly I 1 in begs extern terr states small grub lives in stems of wheat sucking juices of plant may blay bo be controlled by plowing stubble deeply by tits the united states depart t ment of 0 tho the most destructive enemy of wheat next to tho the kly illy in ili tho the blunt states vust of 0 the 1110 mississippi eivor anti in parts llouel astha hant wheat atas it is n very small gru feruba b which lives in the estelus of sucking tho the juices of tilt plant ond causing a in ohp stein although tins this insect la is isain c more s earlous than the lly fly occasionally causing complete destruction vey little la Is done at present to control Is ha depre depredations dillons the insect lins fills a number of natural one viles but dicso these should not be relied relle dupon upon for Ill linn lattAy the attacks ohly heat which fact suggests suggest one of the most reliable control tent of substituting crops in tile southern port part of tho ilia hastern eastern wheat belt tile insect way may bo be controlled by plowing stubble deeply tiffey after hiir vest when this alita does docs not Int interfered erferd with the ilia growing of red clover and araas i S tho the ogg egg from roin ahiel I 1 tha ahn fras hatches 13 laid in the stoin stein liy by nn an insect resembling a small blacic ant with wings when it wheat plant becomes infected do D outward sign roay may appear the presence of tho the can bo be detected when the II plant ifantis antIs as nearly mature by examining tho the of 0 the stem stein usually just above the second seconder rr third joint froin the the rant of Is very cable there being wart like swellings on the stem very good indication lg tile presence lit in tho fjeld lumber of fallen or lodged plants the larvae of remain in the old bubblo until november or december cip ber lhnn about HO L 0 per cent of them hem change to the pupa stage in 1 ihla fils form largo large numbers ore winter killed hilled in n flo ali northern states but revere wea tiek also kills their eneal enemies e without Willi out tile the assistance of parasitic one of the th e jol wheat growing in the eastern Easter lit states oi 0 i necessity would lilyn been abandoned or the growers forced to adopt control measures say 1 fall plowing Is practiced the stubble containing tile the pot Is if burled ijler deeply deply uius thus preventing the insect froin prillIp cm Ing the following this method Is adopted the hadly badly infested wheat should be cui cui high so that the greater of taij joint worms will bo be loft left on oil tile the ilela 11 in tile old stubble anti and ill fiina a y be turned burnot under and destroyed in southern kentucky virginia tennessee and other southern rn and so southeastern U tit ea 8 t e rn states where double cropping systems tiro tire in general use ise it is possible e tal 14 plow under tho stubble wit without holit interim intent foring forlai for lii with tile the cropping eystein ahem this his ls Is l s not as Is sometimes tile case lit in the more norah corti ern eia states substitute crops such as tye barley hr ir buckwheat should bc grown grou on heavily infested areas r |