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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 1 
The Farmers' Club. 
( Continued .) 
Insects That Injure Evergreens. 
B. B., Dover, N. II .—Last spring the 
leader of a fine thrifty Norway spruce 
and some shoots of common pine on 
transplanted trees in the front garden, 
began to droop and upon examination 
were found to be infested with white 
grubs about three-eighths of an inch in 
length. The pests could not be seen un¬ 
til the green tender growth had been 
eaten into, and then they were found to 
be almost alive with the grubs or mag¬ 
gots. What are they and what can be 
done to prevent their ravages ? 
□ Ans. —The small white grubs found in¬ 
festing the terminal shoots of the Nor¬ 
way spruce and pine trees are probably 
the larvae of a small dark-brown weevil 
having a large white spot on each wing 
cover and which is known to entomolo¬ 
gists as Pi6sodes strobi. The beetles de¬ 
posit their eggs in the bark of the shoots 
in May, and the larvae which hatch there¬ 
from, mine in the wood and pith, caus¬ 
ing the shoots to droop and eventually 
die, thereby occasioning a crook or fork 
in the tree at the point. The full-grown 
grub passes the winter in the shoots. 
This brief summary of the life history of 
this insect shows that it is impracticable 
to prevent the depredations of the foe by 
the application of any insecticide, as the 
grubs are in the wood out of reach. 
Therefore the only method which seems 
advisable is to prevent any further dam¬ 
age by the pest by simply cutting out 
the infested shoots as soon as they are 
noticed, and burning them; the earlier 
in the season this is done the better. 
This effectually destroys all eggs or 
grubs then in the shoots and thus pre¬ 
vents any further increase of the pests. 
For further information on the habits 
and life history of this insect, see Dr. 
Fitch’s Fourth Report on New York In¬ 
sects, p. 732 (1857), or Packard’s Forest 
Insects, p. 734. m. v. slingkbland. 
Cornell Agricultural Exp. Station. 
Bran Not a Cheap Fertilizer. 
“ FarmerNew Brunswick, N. J .—What 
is the value of winter wheat bran as a 
fertilizer ? Can it be profitably used in 
a home-made fertilizer at $18 per ton, 
say for an oat or corn crop. 
Ans.—A ton of average bran will con¬ 
tain about 50 pounds of nitrogen, 29 
pounds of phosphoric acid and 55 pounds 
of potash, with a manurial value of about 
$12.50. It would be very poor economy 
to use it as a fertilizer at the price 
named. In fact, with one exception, no 
grain product that can be used to feed 
animals should ever be used as a fertil¬ 
izer. The one exception is cotton seed 
meal, which is produced in a section 
where by reason of bad roads, poor rail¬ 
road facilities and high freights ordinary 
fertilizers cost too much. Fertilizers 
are made of substances that cannot be 
used for any other purpose. The ideal 
plan for feeding animals is to give them 
only the mill products that naan cannot 
eat, and certainly no farmer in New 
Jersey can afford to feed plants on food 
that will sustain animals. 
Potatoes In Western Kansas. 
W. A. IP., Pratt, Kan —I have 40 acres 
of irrigable land on which no crop ha 
been half ss profitable as potatoes, which 
bring an average price of $1 per bushel. 
I have but little stable manure, and 
freight on commercial fertilizers would 
make them very expensive. Clover 
doesn’t do well. Would like to raise 
potatoes every year, on at least half the 
land, alternately, and still keep up the 
fertility required for the crop. “ Rugs ” 
don’t bother me. An average crop is 200 
bushels per acre. 1. Can it be done by 
turning under rye, May 15, for corn, sow¬ 
ing cow peas at the last working, har¬ 
vesting the corn, and turning under a 
crop of peas? 2. Would it be better to 
harvest the rye and sow buckwheat to be 
plowed under? 3. What crop, plowed 
under, would come nearest supplying the 
fertility taken by a potato crop, and what 
should be added? 
Ans.—O n comparatively new land that 
can be irrigated, we believe a good many 
crops of potatoes can be grown in succes¬ 
sion without manure or fertilizers, pro¬ 
vided a good green manuring crop is 
plowed in every other year. The time 
must come, however, when soluble potash 
and phosphoric acid must be applied or 
the farm will run out. This may not be 
in your day, particularly if you use plenty 
of irrigating water which will bring con¬ 
siderable plant-food to the soil. When 
you do need fertilizers we think you can 
buy cotton seed meal or cotton hull 
ashes cheaper than the prepared chemi¬ 
cals, as Texas oil mills must be reasona¬ 
bly near you. For a green manuring 
crop try the Soja bean. Prof. Georgeson 
of the Kansas Agricultural College (Man¬ 
hattan) praises this plant for sections 
where clover will not thrive. It gives a 
full crop in one season and has almost as 
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