Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1919 — BUG PLAGUES DUE TO VISIT HOOSIERLAND [ARTICLE]

BUG PLAGUES DUE TO VISIT HOOSIERLAND

Two bug plagues are due to visit Indiana this summer, according _to Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist. Every indication points to the belief that grass-hoppers wall be more-num-erous than last year, he says, and in addition the seventeen year locusts are scheduled to appear. Mr. Wallace urges fanners and gardeners to prepare to aid the natural enemies- of the grass-hoppers in annihilating them. The most common natural enemies, he said, are the black blister beetle or the old fashioned potato .bug, the young of which feeds on grass-hopper eggs, and a fungus growth that attacks the young and kills them. Neither of these forces, he sadd, has been prevalent in recent years. ■ / As an asd to these forces, Mr. Wallace suggests that farmers spread a prepared poison along the roadsides and in their fields early in the season. This preparation consists of 50 pounds of bran, one pound of paris green, the juice of half a dozen lemons ,and a gallon of old fashioned New Orleans molasses. The last two ingredients are said to be essential to the preparation which, if sprinkled in the evening, attracts the grasshoppers from anything upon which they are feeding.