. Agriculture for southern schools. Photiijjruph by R. S. Mafkintosh Fig. 170. — Jarring Peach Trees to catchcurculios on the screen below 262 AGRICULTUKE possible to have the corn silking and in condition to attractthe moths when they are most abundant in July andAugust. The cotton is left almost uninjured. This prac-tice is in addition to that of plowing the ground early in the winter tobreak up the cellsin which thepupae are passingthe winter. The cotton worm.— A number ofyears ago this wasthe most seriousenemy of cotton,but more recentlyit has been lessinjurious. Thecaterpillars be-come ab
. Agriculture for southern schools. Photiijjruph by R. S. Mafkintosh Fig. 170. — Jarring Peach Trees to catchcurculios on the screen below 262 AGRICULTUKE possible to have the corn silking and in condition to attractthe moths when they are most abundant in July andAugust. The cotton is left almost uninjured. This prac-tice is in addition to that of plowing the ground early in the winter tobreak up the cellsin which thepupae are passingthe winter. The cotton worm.— A number ofyears ago this wasthe most seriousenemy of cotton,but more recentlyit has been lessinjurious. Thecaterpillars be-come abundantrather late in theseason and maystrip all of thefoliage from theplants. They may quite easily be reduced in numbersby dusting the cotton plants with Paris green mixed withflour. Strange as it may seem, this worm has recentlycome to be considered as beneficial to those sections ofthe cotton belt where the boll weevil occurs. It deprivesthe boll weevil of food by practically killing the Cuurtc;Ny U. S. Eur. Entomology Fig. 171. — Four Stages of the Worm, all enlarged INSECT ENEMIES OF THE FARMER 263 Exercise. — Ask the owners permission to examine the roots ofpeach trees for borers. In your notebook write a description of whatyou find. If specimens of the other insects mentioned in this sectioncan be found, place them in bottles and present them to the teacher forexamination by the class. Note to the Teacher. —Bulletins on each of these separate in-sects have been issued by the United States Department of Agricultureand by many of the experiment stations. You may render a greatservice in preventing the destruction of fruit trees by obtaining one ormore of these bulletins and, with its help, collecting twigs that seem tobe attacked by scale insects. Specimens forwarded to the entomologistat your state experiment station will generally be identified withoutcharge and detailed information will be furnished for the treatment ofthe insect fou
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