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The Zoological Press Bulletin
of the Division of Zoology, Penn
sylvania Department of Agricul
ture. Timely Topics of Plants and
Pests Discussed Weekly. By II. A.
Surface, State Zoologist.
APPRECIATION Ol' IJtU.l'TlNS.
Prof. II. A. Surface, the State
Zoologist, is in receipt of many let
ters of approbation concerning the
bulletins of the Division of Zoology
of the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture. The following words
of encouragement from Mr. George
H. Eisenhart, a successful farmer
of Skippack, Mcntgotnery county,
Pa., are greatly appreciated:
"Your Bulletin for June on 'Plant
Pest Treatment' is at hand. I wish
to say that it is the best bulletin
that I have received from you. It
treats of every plant on the farm,
and in a concise manner, so that it
takes but a few moments to find
out the remedy for any pest, in
stead of being compelled to wade
through a mass of literature.
"I am more pleased with this
number than with any of the previ
ous ones, although I received much
instruction frow the others. I trust
it will be received with enthusiasm
by all the farmers of the State, as
it is an encyclopedia condensed."
THK jiki.on Arms.
The Melon Aphis is one of the
many species of plant lice concern
ing which State Zoologist Surface,
at Harrisburg, has received an un
usual number ol inquiries this year.
It is a little dark green insect, suck
ing the sap from the under sides of
the leaves of the melons, especially
cantaloupes, and stunting the
growth of the vines so that the
crop is destroyed. The insects mul
tiply with such remarkable rapidi
ty that when one has started on a
plant it will soon produce enough
offspring to cover all the leaves of
an infested plant or vine.
They start in a' colony or group,
and sometimes it is a good plan to
cut off and destroy the infested
leaves or vines. One of the best
practical measures to get rid of
them is to turn the vines over with
a fork, so that the leaves lie upside
down, and then spray with a good
nozzle and high pressure, applying
Whale Oil Soap in solution, in the
proportion of one poun.i of this ma
terial to five or six gallons of wa
ter. A "Knapsack Sprayer" or a
"Compressed Air Sprayer" is very
good for this work, and it can be
carried among the vines without
damage to them. In some cases
;he operator can succeed very well
jy using a short extension rod that
.vill permit him to reach the ground
without stooping, and carrying an
jp-turned nozzle, In order to throw
:he spray liquid up under the leaves
o strike the pests. Thorough
spraying in this work is essential.
vVhere the leaves are so curled as
o effectively protect the aphids,
.hese should at once be picked off
ind destroyed, either by burning or
y crushing under foot.
Some persons have succeeded in
umigating for melon aphids by
lrawing the vines together on a hill
ind turning a washtub over them,
ust after pouring a half teacuptul
if carbon bisulfide on the ground
iround the plants within an area
;hat will be covered by the wash
:ub. To make it air-tight, earth
an be thrown around the lower
;dge of the inverted tub. Let the
umigation continue for at least
me-half hour. While this is a slow
irocess and can not, therefore, be
ecotnmended on an extensive or
:omtnercial scale, it will be found
o be a good meansjof protecting a
ew vines of melons or cucumbers
vhich may be grown in the home
garden.
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THK CARBAGR APHIS OR PLANT
LOUSI5.
At this time of year State Zoolo
gist Surface, at Harrisburg, is re
ceiving an unusual number of in
quiries concerning a destructive
pest of cabbage, which appears to
be working in practically all parts
of Pennsylvania and makes itself
manifest by curling the leaves,
stunting the growth of the plants,
and causing them to look as though
covered by mildew. A close ex
amination of the infested plants
shows lhat they arc covered by
hundreds of little gray plant lice or
tphids, which especially crowd close
together in the curled parts of the
leaves and live by injecting a poison
into the leaf and sucking out the
modified sap.
They are true sticking insects,
and can not be killed by the pois
ons such rs Paris green and arsen
ate of lead, which can safely be ap
plied for the common green cabbage
worm. They are the cabbage aphids
or plant lice, and are killed, ei
ther by fumigation with some gas
like the fumes of carbon bisulfide
in a vessel turned over the plants;
or, far better, by spraying with a
contact insecticide such as one
pound of whale oil soap in five gal
lons of water, or ten per cent, ker
osene emulsion, or strong solutions
of soft soap, or very strong tobacco
decoctions.
It is necessarjin applying the
spray that a side-turned nozzle be
used on the end of a short exten
sion rod, and that the liquid be ap
plied with considerable pressure, 111
order to throw itwell in among the
curie leaves, striking the bodies of
all the pests. Those which are not
touched by the spray liquid at tie
time of spraying will not be injur
ed and will increase in multiplica
tion at an alarming rate. The leaves
that are so badly curled as to pro
tect the plant lice effectively from
contact with the spray liquid sbould
be cut or pulled and and at once
destroyed, either by burning or by
stamping under toot.
If the spraying is effective the
results can be seen within twenty
four hours, and if there should re
main any pests alive at the end of
that time, it is advisable to repeat
the operation with a little stronger
material. It is important that all
hopelessly stunted, sickly or feeble
plants should be gathered and burn
ed by throwing them onto a hot fire:
or fed to stock at once, in order to
get nd of the pests which they con
tain. To Be Remembered,
There is one fact that every
Democratic voter, and particularly
every Democratic Register or tax
Assessor should remember, and
that is, that young men who voted on
age last fall MCJS7 be Registered or
they can not vote under any circum
stances. Others who have paid a
State or County tax within two
years may be able to swear in their
votes, if they are not upon the
Registry, but the voter who cast
his first ballot in 1908 has no possi
ble chance to do this. He is not
upon any duplicate, has no tax
assessed against him, and conse
quently cannot qualify to having
paid a tax, as is necessary where
voters are left off the Registry. By
failing to register he practically
and effectually disfranchises him
self. There is no way by which he
can vote, and Democrats should
remember and see that every young
Democrat who voted on age in
1908, is upon the polling list of
1909. And this must be seen to
before the evening of September
hrst. Don t forget this.
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Woman's Home Companion for Sep
tember. A big section of the unrsually
big nnniher is devoted to fashions.
Experts in Paris and famous tailors
and milliners in the United States
have, with Grace Margaret Gould's
knowledge of the American wom
an's tastes, made the issue one that
women will preserve for many
months. Not only gowns, coats,
hats and waists, but the important
little things, shoes, hosiery, fab
rics, trimmings, coiffures all are
exhaustively handled.
There are plenty of good stories
in the issue for these last hot days
stories by Octave Thanet, Mrs.
John Van Vorst, Katharine Hol
land Brown, Mary Heaton Vorse,
and others, illustrated by such ar
tists as James Montgomery Flagg
and Alice Barber Stephens. Kate
Douglas Wiggiu's serial story of
the Shakers, "Susanna and Sue,"
is also in this issue. For the theatre-goer,
Valter Prichard Eaton's
article, "The Decent Stage," will
prove a splendid guide, giving a
list of the good, clean, successful
plays that will appear outside of
New York this fall.
In "Reluctant Parentage" Dr.
Woods Hutchinson startles us with
new ideas about the "Race Suicide"
question. He shows all the aspects
of this big problem and eventually
proves that it isn't really a prob
lem at all.
Marion llarland, in her pilgrim
age through Europe, has met "Lit
tle Boy Blue," and tells his sad lit
tle story.
William II. McElroy contributes
a number of stories about Edward
Everett Hale that have the charm,
humor and sweetness that pervade
everything connected with Doctor
Hale.
We hear constantly the cry that
our daughters are being taken from
home, but seldom a practical plan
to bring them back. Katharine
Eggleston's article in this issue
suggests a plan and a good one.
There are a number of articles
that should be cut out and pasted
in set ap books: "The Successful
Aquarium," "How to Make Candle-Shades,"
"Furniture Made at
Home," "Small Fruits."
The children's department is
even bigger than usual. There are
many pages devoted to embroidery
and other hand work. Fannie
Merritt Farmer's cooking pages are
full of new ideas, and all the other
regular departments are as good as
they always are.
Free Scholarship.
Any young man or woman who
is a bonafide patron of this paper
may secure free instruction in Mu
sic or Elocution.
The Rochester Conservatory of
Music, with the desire to stimulate
the study of these arts, offers schol
arships to applicants from the State
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N. Y., before September 6, 1909.
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The Evolution of Clothe.
The! appearance of civilized man, his
hniulH and herd protruding from rylln
(!;'! of cloth, as a turtle's from be
rt;;lh Ills cr.rnnrire, lin'mes the sav
iiv.c liifJist with furiosity, envy and
fear. "You lived, sir, In the Victorian
i!.;" - 11 crlod eHueiitliilly cylindrical."
say.', n tailor to the hero of Mr. Wells'
"When the Sleeper Wakes." Neverthe
less, nil these unmeaning cylinders
iin.l rolls of superfluous cloth we car
ry upon our hacks once had some
meaning. For Instance, the two but
tons p.nd the rudimentary tails of the
imvnlng cont, and the vestlgal tails
of tlio sack cont, nre reminders of the
tlriitf when the long tails were looped
up to enable the wearer to ride with
out sitting upon his clothes. Similarly
the buttons upon the sleeves originat
ed with the time when the coat and
shirt formed one garment, whose
sleeves were tucked up when the
wearer "got busy." Men's clothing
burtons over from left to right;
women's from right to left.
Hard Working French Schoolboys.
French children nre often on their
way to school a little after seven
o'clock In the morning. If they huve
concluded their lessons by nine o'clock
in the evening It Is only by dint of
great application.
Voting men studying lor the higher
piofe.snkms have appointments at live
o'clock In the morning In summer
lime; otherwise they cannot accom
plish the mountain of work that lies
before them. In nil branches of art
the labor of the tyro Is Immense At
the Conservatoire the strenuous life
la carried to a point which provokes
the astonishment even of laborious
German Btudcnts.
Overwork.
Overwork seldom kills anybody but
farmers' wives. The few men in the
world who drive themselves Into over
work thrive on It and write their
names ou the roll of fame because
of It. When the world says that a
man has broken down from overwork
It tells a polite falsehood, usually.
People break down from overworry,
overhurry, overdrinking, oversmoking,
overeating and overfoolishness of
many other kinds, but seldom from
overworking. The energy needed to
do an ordinary man's dally work is In
significant 'alongside the energy he
devotes to secondary things. Newark
(N. J.) Hews.
NOTICE IN PARTITION.
In the Orphan' Court of Columbia County.
In the matter of the partition of the
real estate of Abraham Stine, late of the
Town of Bloomsburg.
To the heirs, Mary Stine, Bloomsburg,
Pa,, Sarah S. Billnian, Liverpool, Perry
County, Pa., Isabella Mourey, Mount
Carmel. Northumberland County, Pa
Edward Stine, 36 North 8th Street,
Reading, Pa., Jane Chrisman, Blooms
burg, Pa., Hattie Yeager, Bloomsburg,
Pa., Mary Jones, .Sagan, Northumber
land County, Pa., Jessie E. Stine,
Bloomsburg, Pa,
Description of the premises in question
is as follows : All that certain house and
lot situated in the Town of Bloomsburg,
Pa., beginning at the northwest corner
of West First street, and Murry Alley,
thence westwardly along said First street
eighty-six feet to a corner, and land of
J. II. Geiger, thence northwest along
the said land, one hundred feet to the
eastern bank of Fishing Creek, thence
eastwardly along said creek one hundred
feet, to the place of beginning, whereon
are erected a Double Frame House and
out-buildings.
Take notice, that in pursuance of an
order of the Orphans Court of the Coun
ty of Columbia, aforesaid, a writ of par
tition has issued from said Court to the
Sheriff of the said county, returnable on
the 4th Monday of September Term of
the said Court, being September 27th,
loot), and that the inquest will meet for
the purpose of making partition of the
real estate of the said decedent on Fri
day, September 17th, 1909, at 10 o'clocK
in the forenoon of said day, upon the
premises, at which time and place you
are requested to be present, if you see
proper.
CHARLES B. ENT.
Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office,
Bloomsburg, Pa., Aug. 16, 1909.
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