The RURAL. NEW.YORKER 
5i9 
The Seventeen-year Locust in 1919 
Part II. 
Injuby Usually Overestimated.— 
The injury caused by the cicada is due to 
the effect produced by depositing its oggs 
in the young twigs of trees, especially of 
pear, peach and apple. When a twig is 
tilled with masses of eggs, as shown last 
week, Fig. 131, the branch is so weakened 
that a heavy wind may easily break it off. 
On the other hand, if the branch remains 
on the tree it will usually became knotty 
and ascarred from the healed-over egg 
punctures. Fortunately, the insects deposit 
most of their eggs in the branches of for¬ 
est trees, particularly oak and hickories, 
if these are available ; but young orchards, 
especially those ill the vicinity of forests 
or groves or on newly cleared land, are 
sometimes subject to considerable injury. 
In 1910 the writer saw a 10-acre orchard 
Don’t let inferior oil 
Ordinary oil Veedol after 
after use use 
Showing sediment formed 
after 500 milea of running 
of Rome Beauty trees set the previous 
year in Ontario County. N. Y., prac¬ 
tically ruined by this insect. The young 
branches were so weakened by the punc¬ 
tures made in depositing the eggs that the 
high winds broke them off and left only 
the slender trunks. On the other hand, 
the injury that the 17-year locust may do 
is usually overestimated, and is feared 
much more than the facts warrant. The 
number of insects that appear is so great 
that one can hardly see how serious dam¬ 
age can fail to result from the egg-laying. 
Yet the fact remains that from all the 
outbreaks of this insect in the United 
States during past years no very wide¬ 
spread or serious injury has ever been 
recorded. It is certainly true that no per¬ 
manent or extended injury seems to be 
done to forest trees or to mature fruit 
trees of any kind. 
Shall Fruit Trees Be Set this 
Spring? —As has already been pointed 
out, old, mature fruit trees are rarely per¬ 
manently or seriously injured by the 17- 
year locust. It is only young trees two or 
three years old, or those newly set in the 
Spring, that are particularly liable to in¬ 
jury. In New York State, with the ex¬ 
ception of parts of Monroe. Niagara, 
Queens and Suffolk counties, there is no 
risk run in planting orchards this Spring. 
The same is true of practically all of 
each of the New England States. In 
those isolated regions and iu the parts of 
those States where swarms are scheduled 
to appear it. is quite likely that young 
trees may be affected, especially if they 
are planted near a woodland or on newly 
cleared ground. It must be remembered, 
however, that settlement of a region and 
subsequent cultivation of the soil tend to 
stop your tractor 
Give special care to 
your truck 
The (arm truck makes money 
(or the (armer just so long as it 
runs at minimum cost (orrcpairs 
and layups. Geared low,the truck 
engine develops heat less only 
than that o( the tractor. 
Inferior oil that breaks down 
under heat and iorms sediment 
is responsible (or almost every 
difficulty with the truck engine. 
Veedol, the lubricant that re¬ 
sists heat, reduces sediment 
(ormed by 86%. 
Because it resists heat. Veedol 
reduces evaporation 25% to 50%. 
This means great economy per 
mile and per gallon as well as 
protection against ordinary en¬ 
gine troubles. 
N INETY per cent of the en¬ 
gine troubles of a tractor are 
preventable. With proper 
care and attention there need be no 
stops or layups for repairs during the 
months when your tractor is in con¬ 
tinuous service. 
At harvest or ploughing time 
your machine may be worth several 
hundred dollars a day. If it stops, 
you not only lose its service but pay 
repair bills in addition. 
Inferior oil is the cause of 90% of 
tractor engine trouble. Excessive 
dilution of the oil supply by fuel; 
loose bearings; overheating; excess¬ 
ive carbon deposits; knocking—all 
are directly traceable to poor oil. 
Solving tractor problems 
The special problem of tractor 
lubrication arises from the fact that 
a tractor runs at full engine speed 
for hours at a time. Tremendous 
heat is developed. 
_ Under this intense heat ordinary 
oil breaks down very rapidly, form¬ 
ing large quantities of sediment 
which has no lubricating value. 
How Veedol, the lubricant that 
resists heat, prevents the formation 
of sediment is shown by the two 
bottles illustrated above. 
Veedol is used and approved and 
recommended by leading tractor 
manufacturers, and carried in stock 
and sold by their agents throughout 
the United States and Canada. In 
the official tests at the tractor dem¬ 
onstration at Salina, July 23rd and 
24th, 1918, Veedol Special Heavy 
was used by all the leading tractor 
manufacturers. It was proven that 
Veedol Special Heavy was superior 
to other oils for the automobile type 
of tractor, as on examination it was 
found that the crankcase contained 
a lower percentage of kerosene con¬ 
tamination. Its kerosene content 
was 25% less than the average tests 
of the other makes of ordinary trac¬ 
tor oil. 
Veedol Special Heavy is recom¬ 
mended particularly by Fordson and 
International Harvester Company 
dealers. 
Buy Veedol today 
Tour dealer has Veedol in stock or ccui 
get it for you. If he cannot supply you. 
\r Tl *4 ,b s *, or **1? name of the nearest 
Veedol dealer. Enclose 10c for a copy of 
the 100-page Veedol book describing in¬ 
ter"* 1 combustion engines. This book 
will save you many dollars and help 
you keep your gasoline engines running 
at minimum cost. 
TIDE WATER OIL COMPANY 
Veedol Department 
538 Bowling Green Building. New York 
Branchea or diatributora in all principal 
cities of the United States and Canada 
Veedol 
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break up and scatter the swarms of ci¬ 
cadas. Consequently in some localities 
where the insects appeared 17 years ago 
comparatively few may appear this year. 
Individuals contemplating the planting of 
fruit trees should consult their own State 
entomologist and find out from him if 
records are available to show whether the 
cicadas are expected to appear in that 
particular locality. Moreover, the old in¬ 
habitants should be consulted regarding 
the former appearance of the insect. If 
it can be determined that the cicadas are 
going to appear, it would probably be ad¬ 
visable to postpone planting until Fall or 
until the next. Spring if possible. Prun¬ 
ing of young orchards should also be de¬ 
ferred so that more twig surface will be 
offered to distribute the damage over the 
tree. 
Can Injury be Prevented? —The 
young cicadas can be killed if they are 
attacked soon after they emerge from the 
ground. It is said that a 15 per cent so¬ 
lution of acetic acid sprayed directly on 
them will kill them. Considerable success 
may be had with a 15 per cent kerosene 
emulsion if applied while the insects are 
young and soft. Those methods, however, 
are only applicable to small areas. There 
does not seem to be any way by which the 
females can bo prevented from laying 
their eggs in the branches. Coating the 
1 rees with whitewash has been recom¬ 
mended- Bordeaux mixture has also been 
tried, but without satisfactory results. 
Upon the whole, probably the method 
that will give the best protection is to 
collect the cicadas by hand. Bushels of 
them may he gathered from small trees 
in the early morning and evening when 
they are sluggish, and in this way young 
orchards may he protected from serious 
ip jury GLENN \\\ HERRICK. 
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