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Seeds, we have given critical attention to the varieties, 
selecting only those which have been tried and proven of 
excellent merit under widely different conditions of soil 
and climate. This Collection, if purchased separately 
from our catalogue, would cost $1.65. 
One Packet Each of 
Beans— Bountiful 
Beans—.Vex; Hardy Wax 
Beans —Fordhoak Hush Lima, 
B eel— Detroit Dark Red 
Carrot— Selected Chantenay 
Corn —Golden Bantam 
Cucumber— White Spine 
Lettuce — Black Seeded Simpson 
Lettuce— May King 
the Following for $1.00 
Onion — White Portugal 
Parsley— Double Curled 
Peas— McLean's Little Gem 
Radish— Scarlet Globe 
Radish— Long White Icicle 
Spinach— New Zealand 
Swiss Chard—Giant Lucullus 
Tomato— Selected Stone 
Turnip— White Globe 
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Earlier than you ever had befor* 
. THE WORLD’S DEMAND 
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PROTECT EARLY CABBAGE 
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For 8 years growers have been raising larKcr, 
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62 South Water St. Rochester, N. Y. 
IVE are prepared to furnish truck growers and 
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common-sense basis. Europeans have 
always taken kindly to rabbits as food, 
but Americans have not until within a 
short time felt that tame rabbits are to 
be classed with chickens as food. The 
war has driven them to it, and many of 
them find the rabbit the most economical 
machine for turning vegetable wastes into 
concentrated food. We now see men 
wandering through this city with wagon 
loads of rabbits—sold direct to consum¬ 
ers. So there seems little doubt that the 
rabbit has come to the front as a meat 
producer. There is a good business in 
breeding and raising him. 
The Seventeen-year Locust in 1919 
Part I. 
Nor A True Locust. —Without a doubt 
the most interesting insect in America, 
and certain the most notorious one, is 
the so-called “Seventeen-year locust.” It 
is interesting because of its remarkable 
life history and habits, and notorious be¬ 
cause of its wide distribution, and be¬ 
cause of the great swarms that suddenly 
but regularly and apparently mysteriously 
appear in various parts of the country. 
Perhaps more false ideas and supersti¬ 
tious notions have arisen concerning this 
insect than regarding any other insect in 
this country. A locust year is said to he 
a disastrous year, and yet nearly every 
year is a locust year, because this insect 
appears somewhere in the United States 
nearly, if not quite, every season. In the 
first place, it is not a “locust," for a locust 
is a grasshopper that has acquired the 
habit of migrating long distances in great 
swarms and devouring everything in its 
path. The 17-year locust does not mi¬ 
grate. but remains until it dies in the 
vicinity in which it appears. Neither does 
it devour vegetation, for all of the indi¬ 
viduals have sucking mouth parts and 
partake very sparingly or not at all of 
the sap of plants. Little or no. injury is 
caused by what the 17-year-locust eats. 
Moreover, it is not even closely related to 
grasshoppers, but belongs to the family of 
cicadas and is more properly known as the 
“periodical cicada. Hut, after all, 
“what’s in a name”? The term, locust, 
has been so long associated with this in¬ 
sect that there is no use in trying to 
change it now. 
Two Races of this Insect. —There 
are two distinct races of this cicada; one 
of which appears every 17 years, and is 
confined mostly to northern territory, 
and another which appears every 13 years, 
and is confined mostly to the Southern 
United States. Moreover, since there are 
several broods of each race, there appears 
somewhere in the country probably every 
year au outbreak of this insect. r i hese 
appearances of the cicada, are absolutely 
regular, and entomologists are now able 
to foretell when and where the insects 
will appear, as astronomers can predict 
an eclipse of the moon. For example, we 
Shall have in New York State a faiily 
heavy appearance of tlie^jjicada on Long 
Island in 1923, a light outbreak in the 
Hudson Itiver Valley in 1924, and other 
swarms, mostly light ones, in various 
parts of the State iu 1928, 1932, 1933, 
1934, 1936 and every 17 years after these 
dates. 
Life History of the Insect. —The 
17-year locust has the most remarkable 
life history of any insect known to us, in 
that it spends nearly 17 years in attain¬ 
ing maturity, and nearly all of this long 
period is spent in the ground. In the lat¬ 
ter part of May the immature, wingless 
nymphs that have spent 17 years, lacking 
a few weeks, in the soil, crawl forth from 
the ground, climb up the trunks of trees 
and for the last time shed their skins. In 
June the leaves and branches of the trees 
will he covered with those cast skins, or 
“shells” from which the individuals have 
emerged fully grown, each with four 
transparent wings. The air is then full of 
the shrill, penetrating songs of the male 
cicadas, for only the males can sing. One 
of the old Greek poets has immortalized 
the muteness of the female cicadas by the 
oft-quoted couplet “Happy the cicadas’ 
lives, for they all have voiceless wives.” In 
June the females lay their eggs in great 
Eggs Deposited in a Branch. Fig. 131 
numbers in the twigs of trees, and after 
thus providing for the continuance’ of the 
race, succumb to the vicissitudes of their 
short life in the sunlight and Summer air 
and die. By the middle of July all of the 
individuals of this great host have disap¬ 
peared. Their bodies, torn and dismem¬ 
bered, carpet the ground beueath one’s 
feet where the swarms have emerged. In 
about six weeks the eggs hatch and the 
soft young cicadas deliberately fall to the 
ground, where they enter a crack and dis¬ 
appear beneath the surface. Here each 
one forms a sort of earthen chamber from 
one to two feet below the surface of the 
ground, and lives by sucking the sap from 
the root of a tree or other plant. During 
the following years the young cicada 
grows slowly and in the Spring of the 
seventeenth year reaches maturity, 
emerges from the soil, and transforms to 
the adult winged insect, thus completing 
the life cycle. 
The Outbreak of 1919.—A brood of 
each of the races will appear during the 
coming Summer—Brood No. 10 of the 17- 
year race and Brood No. 18 of the 13- 
year race. Brood No. 10 appears over 
the largest area in the United States of 
any of the broods of this race. A glance 
at the accompanying map will show where 
it is going to appear, and the size of the 
dots will indicate the heaviness of the 
swarms. Tn New York State the out¬ 
breaks in Monroe, Niagara and Ontario 
counties will certainly be light, while in 
Queens and Suffolk counties on Long 
Island the insect will occur in swarms. 
Indiana, Western Ohio, Eastern Penn¬ 
sylvania and all of New Jersey and Mary¬ 
land will witness heavy swarms. Brood 
No. 18 of the 13-year race is confined t<> 
Tennessee, North Carolina, South Caro¬ 
lina, Alabama and Georgia, and is a light 
scattering one. glenn W. HERRICK. 
Spray Early for Leaf Curl 
I hope you will impress upon the fruit 
growers the necessity of spraying peach 
tree's for leaf curl as early in the season 
as possible where lime-sulphur is used. 
In tin' orchard of M. A. Ring, who lias 
(>() acres of fruit, untintentioually a great 
lesson on this was shown. At beginning 
of early spraying one and one-third row 
of peaches was sprayed. Darkness pre¬ 
vented further work that day. For two 
weeks spraying was done when weather 
would permit on other parts of orchard. 
Finally the last third of this second row 
of peaches was sprayed, the center third 
was not sprayed at all. The same kind 
and strength of spray (viz., lime-sulphur 
1:7) was used both times. Leaf curl was 
very bad that year (two. years ago), hut 
the first one and one-third row sprayed 
scarcely showed a curled leaf. The third 
not sprayed was completely coverts! with 
leaf curb and the third sprayed at last <»t 
early spraying season was equally as hod, 
showing the later spraying did not control 
the curl. w * c - u * 
Ohio. 
