Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1881 — A Serious Warning to Our Farmers [ARTICLE]

A Serious Warning to Our Farmers

NewYorkSan, f/ , t . The foHcwlugdetter relates to a subject of extraordinary importance: v «Tb tbe fed 1 tor of thte Hhn—Sttr: PUwufc ihfortt\ What the tnclohed liisfect* Ai¥T.V|fo Worms t found lusoknfe oJd Wheat; anti tbe d lea Krodpd the Mdte 6f the granary?. YwSy begin to fly aboqt fl o’clock -lu the svenrag, ana.then Settle UoWn By the shleaof tlie Bln; Aye they sh“ anyway connected T And will u» regret that the Writer hr the atove.qkhltted his Post Offlfea ad tress itthiS note,' because -it II quite itnportaut Khaki out readers hod Id' from whit part of the country noxious insect's are received, that. they may be" on the lookout for the aside species. .. The small,' Silky moths, of which our 'Correspondent sends Us specimens, are the parents of the worms found.ln the wheat; and, furthermore, they are among the most destructive insects beLngmo other than tpe doted Angoumoto grain meth (Qelechia cercalelta), so named because first disco vered in the- ■pf-ovjttoe of Angoumois, France, about 160 years ago,, i ■

This Insect .has already caused the destruction of thousands of bushels of bdrtt, wheat, and athtof kinds of grain In this country, and from present appearances it will soon make the keep-' ing bf grain over winter a very- dim-cqlt-pmtter in. tbe Urited States, because the moths deposit their eggs oh ihegraln'ln the fall eoowafttirill|s her'thd summer, when stored in bios and' the hfogrem or«Ug msecs by eipending $5,003,000 attbto time,;it woidd be’ tbe best Tniestmcht ever hdade by our pfeople. We haY&Jteep watchlngjfte progress of the pest for tbe pafet ten years, Utad' And that -it has become pretty well distributed over nemty all ..the graingrowing regiqns In both the Northern r and Southern. Btatee: dAs eArly as 173* this same grain moU destructive in some parts orFrance as to near* ly cause a famine amdog tie. people, ibis eoontry, as no effort to being made to check the ravages trfiWsaudmvwar other imported grararaea|Yoylng in-

w theti thoroughly fumigate 'ybur< graupotany grtiin in the-bins this season, w&PSßn&g&is poison#- or-starVefl odl Wfota* tbO same building wHF-be-a safe depository, for •ny Mud of grata Again.; 7r iU 1 * “ ,( Furtbarmose, your.. neighbors must do dbe-same, nr tbs moths will come from theie barns-- 40* youfs. j Until .rigorous measures are, adopted, the spread and ta rages of such - peats cap/tiotvbe prevent fid. Laws must ..be dnaeledhjr tb«u general Government for. *heir suppression* and ttvewenfopood to .die very Uu«o < As-soou •M-Europefin' trie#*find tbntuwe s «n sending them infested grain, .Ahey wjU. want, a«<* mar* of It. atony pciee;aud by mat 1 time our farmers w*U -, learn what U, .euetß to,harbor thekoaomies. ?■»: *