Weekly News Bulletin, 1915, Vol. 21 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Weekly News Bulletin, 1915, Vol. 21 Seventeen-year locusts will infest at least thirty-five Pennsylvania counties this year, J. Hansell French, Secretary of Agriculture, warned today following a survey by the Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. "Brood X of the periodical cicada" will make another visitation in May and June in Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Montour, Montgomery, Northampton, Perry, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, Snyder, Somerset, Union and York Counties. Other counties may be affected. "Brood X" is but one of thirty broods of seventeen-year locusts recognized in the United States, A. B. Champlain, entomologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, explained today in discussing the approaching visitation. All broods do not appear in the same year. Countless thousands of the locusts dressed in khaki colored pupal coats with mere rudiments of wings will come swarming out of the ground late in May and early in June. Leaving the ground literally riddled with round holes they will crawl up the most convenient object to effect the remarkable transformation to the adult stage. While the noisy males are shrilling their discordant notes or emitting a purring rattle with their air drums the females, noiseless and dumb, and probably deaf, will sip juices from tender plant tissues and jab slits in twigs and branches in which to deposit their eggs. Upon completion of the egg-laying activities by the middle of June the adult cicada dies. Later the young, upon hatching from their tree-top cradles, will fall to the ground and dig their way twelve to eighteen inches into the earth. There they will feed upon roots, change clothes periodically, grow and dig their way out seventeen years hence. The seventeen-year locust in the adult stage measures one and one-half inches long, has a dark colored body, an orange band on its abdomen, six reddish yellow legs and four transparent wings. If one´s imagination is strong the letter "W" may be seen on the fore wings. To this is attributed the legend that a locust visitation is a warning of war. Roger M. Baker, head entomologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, suggests that no young fruit trees be planted in infested areas this year as the cicada is capable of killing young trees. He suggests that grafting operations be postponed a year and that no young trees be pruned. Spraying young trees with white wash, bordeaux mixture, pyrethrum powder, kerosene emulsion or other contact insecticides is recommended. Fights For Pure Foods For the protection of Pennsylvania´s food supply the bureau of foods and chemistry, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, last year made 41,127 field inspections and investigations. Prosecutions were brought in 675 cases of alleged violations of the pure food laws. The bureau issued 13,350 licenses and permits and made 9,759 laboratory analyses of food samples. Dog Catcher Will Get You If You Don´t Watch Out That they may avoid fines fixed by law, J. Hansell French, Secretary of Agriculture, appealed today to the thousands of delinquent dog owners to obtain their 1936 licenses before the annual State-wide roundup of unlicensed dogs begins early this month. The 1936 dog licenses were due on January 15 and dog-law enforcement officers are required by law to prosecute where they find dogs without new tags. Payment of a fine and costs is compulsory in every case. Issuance of
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