Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1910 — Purdue Expert Writes About Manner of Overcoming Hessian Fly. [ARTICLE]

Purdue Expert Writes About Manner of Overcoming Hessian Fly.

John E. Alter, of Union township, wrote to Prof. James Troop, of Purdue University, about the Hession fly, which seems to be doing much damage to wheat, and received the appended reply, which should prove valuable to all farmers in future wheat planting. The letter reads: “Yours of the 30th is at hand. The wheat which you enclosed is very badly infested with the Hessian fly. The life history of the fly is something like the following: The fly lays its eggs in the fall sown wheat, beginning about the first of September, if it can find wheat at that time, and continuing until September 20th to 25th. These eggs hatch and work on the wheat until cold weather when they are in the condition in which you see them at present. They pass the winter in this stage and the adult fly comes out again in the spring and lays another batch of eggs which works on the wheat until harvest time. What you should do next year would be to plow a strip around the field you wish to sow the latter part of August and sow one drill width around the field and then prepare the rest of the field for sowing and about September 25th, plow the trap strip under and sow the whole field. The flys will have practically laid all of their eggs on the strip which is plowed under.” New Flake and Cracked Hominy— UMne Grocery. Have you noticed the number o’ Weber wagons we have in this community? They are sold by Maines & Hamilton. ,* .. - You get your sale bills when YOU want them when ordered at T' e Republican office.