Show G jern GrmaN Bi allies Alks 1 6 iv acan da hessian fly cinch bug and armyworm army worm ready for offensive a u is ravages of anch buy bagh plant at left not attacked rlph plant at right ROBERT H MOUL MOULTON by TONa HAT the U united cited states 1 I Is alread not mat b by 1 1 i germans it 1 la 1 but f by their effs effective etiva allies 1111 11 1 date wp rim rim emar du amba and that a great host beat of ging log back sit ff the these are am lot in ID Y 1 the he grain fields I 1 li on an II as written bertlon hard to alle believe nt it first but it t p e true fees tor far the blurb bug buff 1 is pro G german I 1 I 1 in our mar present war our tit the hes hessian I 1 fly 1 ts still 11 im and ad I 1 the Is army worm woon Is 1 in all ally of the gir german army our duty of if helping to feed our or fighting frknk being Plon flim tit that of pro t teching e itna and ad defending ta I 1 I 1 food 8 sup plies piles we produce hice Is a aa I 1 essen tm as thedr production AS a matter of fact incurring the ex err P pause of producing crops and then ibm let ting log ison fall a prey to our eur insect in act en rum 1 is vorse as than flaw not at producing them at nil and the he official calculate eu agishe of the different are being in bil ive it for far ape chat service in crup crop protect protection n these me men are am but a hard hand ful however not c enough it tor far an rill omit patrol and so BO they are calling upon spur the people for such each nil stance as a can caa f easily fl give by keeping watch abc atc f for r I 1 the e common enemy and re IS ithac peril porting g t the a first traces ot of his appear ante a to in 0 bumbera sufficient to threat bread idies i aren dalous S injury amt these ad field hamo insects are capable of I 1 in the I 1 na of cro crop 1 1 la fairly well 11 known suit and what hat the tann tam ir er may do far in the pater that ol at him hia c ran can best beat fi be In or rusted trusted to the hands of larvous state star entomologists whose home burnesa bui bulf fiess nesa it la Is by bomb gas and ad other means to ull kill these all ot it the foe a consider combine two fields field of at car corn both bolli ly lug log next t to heavily infested fields field of wint 0 one 1 fa protected by a circle ot of oil I 1 built about its borders the other IB he unprotected the trip unprotected elected corn car 1 Is entered fo bv tile the too insects m without hind bind ranee rance as aa the ripen ripening ing of the wheat them of food and ad a large part of the corn is d destroyed cut roy it as a shown by the part or of tile hie field laid here bare next neset to then the wheat beat in the other field not a hill of corn Is hurt hort the road oil poured up upon a tile the ground I 1 in n line ime between and it and the iho bif osted cheat anthe callies the bugs bugl which sek k to pass pas millions t lost tart in small all area by a somewhat I 1 s hat general use of such methods I 1 end and similar materials material I 1 in twenty five southwestern counties counti unit is of a middle western state where here during cinch bug uprising last mom summer muce an more ore than 1500 miles of 0 barrier were ware aid tit down dean be between tares men corn rod and fief infested ted wh wheat ent worth of I 1 corn waa cavid it fr from destie dest me jarlli a bt a dottl total cost to the ones of less tile stion and ad of some same 10 OW to the state ta te on oa tue the othor hand wheat beat 0 oats at a and do corn 1 worth it at hnit more were lost last it during ring th the a same pe period tied tor tar 1 lack ek of all lienti 91 suit and thoroughgoing action lulng to a 4 consequent quent scarcity elty ot of f feed ed mat ganv f farmers were unable to k keep coal up their stock and in four our in tested led counties i it select lil d as a emaid bamble district for far study I 1 in comparison with another of counties not at Infest td the ibe number be b of dairy awo fell oft mr in four years 74 per cent beef cuttle attle per cent hogs hoga 15 per cent and hats borscs v 27 per cent the total fowl sum sam of if this reduction 1 in numbers of if the five fork of 0 the four sample counties it due solely to in fl alie pressure presence of the cinch it be ang was 1 I Z trade IS bl 11 1 education pr professional line in cornea wass and ad every kind of nt business tit civic later inter sat est naturally trad suffered final in atila ing btag goring gating III blow to the agriculture ot a Us region greatest damage to earn corn the cinch b bug ug doi do a greatest lost damage wc to corn 1 he adult or 1 full grown bug te IS slid aad about one eighth ot of an dell 1 in length and usually bears con mall white id is wings folded oer 1 its 1 1 bell back the young ones one anro at a ba it v red d and m angles the old bugs bug it live or er th alie s winter hidden among clumps ot of wild i id grasses espe especially cialli those these lee known af 1 the broom sedges which grow abundantly in uncultivated ted places thi ghi the greater I 1 P portion a of the bitet com main I 1 mb wheat t belt of the ll 11 united at it is the usual habit of the ankh amill bug fl firt nt to attack fields at 0 ahat wheat via re or barley and ad lu its press presence often I 1 ia un an noticed bieu because tile luculle inflicted upon don these crops are or of no apparent impact importance I 1 about harvest time the b bugs age irs leaie the small grains and ad craw real I 1 over at the surface of the ground to the nearest fields of corn where they begin at once to wreal wreak severe m 1 injury jury ccora car fields field may be protected an and if th the 0 migrating bugs trapped about the time of wheat harvest b bi plowing a deep furrow along the edge ede of the fled field running the lead land side aide of the plow flour tons toward tit tile the held to be protected 1 in they dry 0 weather im ther the side ot of the for furrow can a be made al so smooth mad and the BIL aldea so steep that the bugs will 0 III find it easier to W crawl along the halt bottom ow than to climb up the sides C circular lecul holes train from 30 to 40 feet fact apart made mi with it a pa post imil hole a tit IS the then may be quit aug in the bottom of the trench into these holes tile the bugs will mill tall fall in large num here berg and here they may be killed easily b by sprinkling kerosene oil all oe thy them 1 in wet at neather ther a 11 line e of liquid car air or ends crude petra petroleum leum which able h the bugs will not cross cros may be maintained at ut allied in tile the into or bottom hessian fly Is old foe another notorious looser insect whose h ama tow tion it to Is I 1 in a the ekr ot of nature to take bread out of our mouths is III the nt hessian 1 fl so cached tied b because a hessian soldiers hired from fro their sovereign by king george III were eve believed to have br brought alight it over fron from europe during the revolutionary war this pest gives its attention almost wholly to wheat upon which ld it levies an average g an nual mu of e approximately 10 per cent experts especto figure that sixty million bu bush 11 els 1 was mas the shortage in the 1917 wheat clap of the countley which millet mav be charged up to this loaner insect and its members increasing liter ling tear ier by see ear have deterred many farmers from sowing wheat the rapidly rising market prices th the hessian fly Is a minute mos qt tabLe fly by aich I 1 ais Ji its minate S eggs aloas upon raw the leaves leases of wheat these hatch batch into little doigg maggots to which crowl crawl down doo into th the a leaf sheaths the there they live hen up upon the plant s sap which they obtain by gnaw gnawing ing into the soft portions of tho the stem usually two but sometimes three these or more am general generations of the in aoi 1 during a sear after the hessian fly has once thor ther In infested fisted tile the crop cent of wheat there them is no kanom known U means of saving it and the only known kimn is means of preventing d t maige fro from the if fly Y Is to keep it nals of the wheat the remedies for the hessian fly are c therefore entirely preventive on one 1 Is to plow plan do donn the wheat beat stab all clr b 1 I 1 immediately after harvest bar 1 in 1 or d der 1 r to doli destroy tim the maggots which I 1 re torm in it this Is for the pr protection at U of it future furor crops another 1 Is t to p pay y great mi attention littlon to tile the preparation 0 of the arrIl bed for the wheat by plowing likening early and ad working mr ing and parking packing the soil th thoroughly g yin in order to eliminate lumps lamps and canila thus producing a finely put pul zd compact and ad on moisture con serving bed for the h e seed care should also be laken that tile the sowing of wheat taken in 11 t the I 1 fall ll 11 I 1 I 1 Is dall delayed ald until 1111 I 1 the fi fly yell free hari tim dat date e r att r regarding g r 11 1 which icile h date I 1 CUB con he be obtained by applying to local applying county no ity agricultural I 1 a brents or beote at ex perm emal stations Blat lons finally a good rotation of crops should be practiced obe wherever rever possible nad mal tile the compera a pr 11 alon 1 of ili the entire lira unit v secured 1 in it lag these preventive ream meas or ures dally daily AM action 1 la N nry necessary ry the a armi rm n worm I 1 known as aa a pest peal of at he th the r tice goore early fly ril colonial limbel times time and the locusts lactate or grasshoppers often multiply y under favor ible his cloo conditions lidon to numbers sufficient clent to devour devoile great arms areas of if both grain and forage crops crop both may be killed easily it if attacked attached 1 in time by sowing solving broadcast among them a poisoned food which they p pre fer fee to the lie grain and sense grass plants on 04 which they naturally feed but this method ulris as aa a 1 rule I early notice of the impending cal calamity mally prompt organization ot of the communities concerned veried tor far self defense and general or ar runge ments emente for the quick supply ot of all the necessary c sy materials material 1 in wholesale quantities all measures fo tor r which watch careful preparation must be made in advance in case the worms are am not discover ed until they have begun to travel in a am liaa usually they can an be destroyed by fur run ollig owing or ditching diachin g c completely ow in lately around the infested are area T the h worms or will 11 fill lot into the ditches and can be killed easily by crushing crashing them with a log hitched to a horse home or mule alim ged back and forth through the ditch or furrow another method Is to dig shallow pos tindes in the bottom ot f aba ill ditch at intervals interval of bt 20 feet e e I 1 iu in 1 to halh the 1 crawling 1119 along oab the ditch bot bottoms terms will fall T they be can then be d imad ed by crushing I 1 or I 1 other means flatting fighting the cutworm the cutworm cummon injury which usually I 1 consists 1 in the cat cutting ling oft off the planta plans at or a little below the sor surface f ace of ili the ground almost invariably occurs tn in ta the spring beginning a as soon boon as the firel plants sprout and continuing until late june or early july by which time the I worms ins are am full fall alaun th the worms hed fled at iiii and ad rest during tile day beneath debris or in the soil from one halt half to one inch below the surface old and since in most ce caama they me resemble wo 1 the soil soft closely tn in color the cause of the injury a often it ten Is not apparent pat pois coca boned bam baits are am efat effective when cut worms arms are found to be abundant a on corn land but proper rotation of crops crep 1 is the best preventive pre e measure pa pas turing faring hogs upon lead land supposed to harbor cutworms cut worms Is a coat beneficial so deml tte tile as these nitrate animals root up and de volar toor insects of many linda including cutworms ent cut worms ron to in large numbers P farm ri poultry all allowed d to follow low the PI plow ow is also of great value A billion dollars a year on the average Is I 1 in se I 1 I 1 in it th the lowiell states according to careful computations b ind ral estimates made by the experts of the national department of agriculture it 1 Is a prie worth morth for far especially 1 in these times time of tari threatened d scarcity of food but bill guerrilla fighting to which this interest Int pret be has be been left 1 in the past u will ili no longer bullice I has er sut f need died 1 tn fact C carefully planned r cam piam by organized zid communities P par m in by everyone so situated I 1 it as to be available liable directed by and fl financed non I 1 sit mal BO fur for as nela necessary nel essaiy a y bv the state late or are th the only roeana a to tue suc irs |