. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . es of application of this poison) the beetles would eatthe sprayed leafage and be killed. Kerosine emulsion or soft-soap washwith parafiin mixed in it, or gas-lime applied as a dry dressing, wouldnot act so certainly, because, although any of them might very likelyprotect the Clover plants on which they were thrown, they would haveno effect in preventing the Apions taking flight from the stack in whichthey were developed. The Apion apricans have very powerful wings
. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . es of application of this poison) the beetles would eatthe sprayed leafage and be killed. Kerosine emulsion or soft-soap washwith parafiin mixed in it, or gas-lime applied as a dry dressing, wouldnot act so certainly, because, although any of them might very likelyprotect the Clover plants on which they were thrown, they would haveno effect in preventing the Apions taking flight from the stack in whichthey were developed. The Apion apricans have very powerful wings. * See Extrait des M^moires de la Soc. Eoy. et Centrale dAgric annde This treatment of course is not applicable where the Clover is being grownfor seed, 26 CORN AND GRASS. [1899 More observations of the above kinds of Clover flower-head attacks,with notes of measures found serviceable for their prevention, wouldbe very acceptable for general farm use. CORN AND GRASS. Cabbage Daddy Longlegs. Tiptila olfracra, Linn. Spotted or Yellow Daddy Longlegs. Tipula maculosa, Hoffm. Paclii/rhin<( vmoilosa, Hofifm. and Tipula oleracea. -Fly, larva, aud pupa standing upright in the groundas before escape of fly. The Leather Jacket grubs, from which are produced the swarmsof large, somewhat gnat-like, two-winged, aud long-legged flies, com-monly known as Daddy Longlegs, or Crane Flies, are only toowell known by reason of tlie mischief which they cause every year atthe roots of grass, of corn, aud of many other kinds, both of field andgarden crops, by gnawing them just below the surface of the ground,and thus more or less injuring the attacked plants, or destroying themthem totally, as the case may be. * In the following notes some of the observations refer to the presence ofTipuhe larvfe in pasture land, others to presence at Strawberry roots ; but as theycould not conveniently be separated, and as one of the observations refers theirpresence at both crops, I have inserted
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