The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 5, 1924 
958 
Questions About Insects 
Answered by Prof. Glenn W. Herrick 
Tobacco and Tomato Worm 
I have ibefore me a scientific article 
picturing a tomato worm, and referring 
to it as “Our old friend the tomato or to¬ 
bacco worm.” This is contrary to my 
teaching. When I was a boy the tobacco 
worm was larger than the tomato worm, 
fully as green, covered with a sort of 
coarse hair or bristle-like spines, and I 
don’t think it had a horn. Xet me know 
if the tomato worm is or ie not the same 
as the tobacco worm. J. P. 
Cold Spring on Hudson, N. Y. 
There are two large green “worms” 
from three to four inches long, each with 
# slender fleshy appendage on the end of 
4the body which sticks out at an angle of 
about 40 degrees, and resembles a small 
destroying lice on the celery would be 
nicotine sulphate, a teaspoonful to a gal¬ 
lon of water, with a piece of soap about 
as large as a hen’s egg dissolved and add¬ 
ed to the solution. Nicotine sulphate ie 
a tobacco concoction containing 40 per 
cent nicotine and, of course, is poisonous 
to human beings. Celery sprayed with 
this material should be thoroughly washed 
before it is eaten. The solution may be 
sprayed on to the celery by one of the 
small hand sprayers holding a quart, 
which can be purchased at most hardware 
stores. 
If one does not want to use nicotine 
sulphate ' for spraying the plants, or- 
Thc Tomato or Tobacco Worm 
horn. These caterpillars are known as 
“hornworms” because of this appendage, 
and both of them feed on tomatoes, po¬ 
tatoes, eggplants, tobacco and some other 
closely related plants. One of these 
“hornworms” is more common and abun¬ 
dant in the Northern States, and one of 
them is more common in the Southern 
States. The Northern hornworm is a 
darker green, and bears along each side of 
the body eight whitish V-shaped marks, 
while the Southern one bears on each side 
of the body seven oblique whitish lines. 
The Northern hornworm is the more com¬ 
mon species in New York State, but both 
species occur here, and both have the 
horn, and both are green, and resemble 
each other closely, but differ as we have 
indicated in the shape of the white mark¬ 
ings on the body. glenn w. herrick. 
Insect Pests on Apple Trees 
I planted some young apple and peach 
trees this Spring. I notice a small green 
caterpillar about % to % in. long which 
curls the leaf up. When I open leaf 
there is a cotton-like substance on the 
leaf. There is also >a black worm or cat¬ 
erpillar that ’has legs both front and 
back ; when you touch the leaf it humps 
itself up in the middle. This is an apple 
tree. I notice the leaf buds dry on ends 
before opening. I notice the leaf of apple 
has 'a rusty or black color. Is this from 
the caterpillar? Peach leaves are eaten 
full of holes also; cannot find anything 
on peach but ants. On one peach tree out 
of 60 I found green caterpillar, but could 
not find any lice. What are these pests, 
and what is the proper spray or dust? 
York town Heights, N. Y. R. n. 
There are over 400 different kinds oi* 
species of insects that are found feeding 
on apple trees. Some of them feed only 
temporarily on the tree or fruit, while 
others feed habitually and permanently 
on this plant. It is easy to see, therefore, 
that one can only guess at the particular 
caterpillars mentioned by R. D. The re¬ 
cently introduced apple and thorn slcele- 
tonizer is now particularly abundant and 
injurious in the lower Hudson River Val¬ 
ley and in Connecticut, and it may well 
be this insect which is causing the trouble. 
The caterpillars can be killed by thor¬ 
ough spraying with arsenate of lead. 2Va 
lbs. of the dry powder to 100 gallons of 
water. If one desires to use it in smaller 
quantities, one ounce to one gallon of 
water will be about right. It is some¬ 
what late to spray for this insect, but it 
can probably be checked if the cater¬ 
pillars are still eating. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Lice on Stored Celery 
What will keep little green lice off cel¬ 
ery after it is in the cellar in Winter? 
The celery looks perfect when we put in 
a tub with earth on the roots, and water 
it regularly. Before the Winter is half 
gone it is so full of little green lice. We 
have a heater in the cellar, but we have 
the outside door open through the day, 
and a window open all the time. 
Germantown, N. Y. MRS. F. J. C. 
The most satisfactory material for 
dinary laundry soap at. the rate of 1 lb. to 
four or five gallons of water will kill the 
lice and probably control them. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Night-walkers 
■Our lawn is highly infested by these 
night-walkers. We have been told that 
picking them off was the only way of 
gfetting rid of the worms. Is there any 
other way? A. G. 
Liberty, N. Y. 
The so-called “night-walkers” are, of 
course, common earthworms or angle- 
worms that come out of their burrows at 
night when it is cool and moist. Earth¬ 
worms are not, as a rule, particularly in¬ 
jurious except, at times, on lawns, where 
they injure the grass and bring up little 
mounds of dirt and debris which they pile 
on the lawn at the mouths of their bur¬ 
rows. 
The only suggestion the writer has to 
offer for the control of these worms is to 
dissolve an ounce of bichloride of mercury 
in 30 gallons of water and to spray the 
lawn or ground where the worms are with 
this solution. One must remember that 
the bichloride of mercury is very poison¬ 
ous, and great care must be taken to label 
it plainly and to keep the solution where 
animals and children cannot get it. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Apple Maggot 
I have seen repeated queries about the 
apple maggot for the last few weeks. 
The reply is, “Spray with arsenate of lead 
about. July 1.” That is all right, but if 
trees are badly infested they will need 
several extra sprayings. In June 14 
issue Prof. Herrick speaks of two sprays 
about, two weeks apart.. It "will be well 
to put on three sprays when trees are 
badly infested. It may take several years 
of thorough spraying to get the pest un¬ 
der thorough control. For years we had 
a great deal of trouble with our Smoke¬ 
house apples. They were so badly in¬ 
fested each year as to be worth little if 
any more than cider prices. Due to the 
thorough treatment given them by Dr. 
Bennett Porter of the United States De¬ 
partment of Entomology, we gained al¬ 
most complete control of the maggot, so 
that we now dread it no more than the 
potato beetle. As your readers probably 
know, we must poison the fly as soon as 
it emerges and before it lays its eggs. As 
H. C. C. says, it is difficult to pick up all 
the infested fruit. frank n. platt. 
Connecticut. 
Thunberg’s Day Lily; 
Yellow Roses 
1. I have a large clump of very beauti¬ 
ful lilies which emit a smell like bush 
honeysuckle, and which bloom usually 
about the latter part of May or first of 
June. They are yellow in color. They 
are not the ordinary yellow day lily, but 
have the form and grace of the Easter 
white lily. I do not know their name, but 
they came from bulbs. 2. I am going to 
start a yellow rose garden this Fall and 
would like to know the names of the har¬ 
diest yellow roses which would do well in 
my vicinity. I presume the Fall would be 
the best time to plant them. 3. What is 
the best time of the year, and what is the 
best way to slip or perpetuate Rambler 
roses? Same as to bush roses? h. f. g. 
Fanwood, N. J. 
1. The _ lilies described are probably 
Thunberg’s day lily, botanically Hemero- 
callis Thunbergii, which is very fragrant, 
graceful in form, and clear lemon yellow 
in color. They may be transplanted in 
Spring or Fall, according to convenience. 
They divide easily, and suffer little from 
being moved. In rather moist soil they 
soon form big crowded clumps, the roots 
so matted in the middle that bloom is les¬ 
sened, and it is wise to lift and divide 
about every fourth year. Small plants 
will bloom the first year from division. 
This lily does well in partial shade, and 
is extremely hardy. 
2. The following yellow roses are excel¬ 
lent, and will be found hardy in your dis¬ 
trict : Mrs. Aaron Ward, Mme. Ravary, 
Mrs. S. Iv. Rindge, Souvenir de Claudius 
Pernet, Duchess of Wellington, Constance, 
Lady Mary Ward, Lady Pirrie, Sunburst, 
Etoile de Lyon. The last named is not 
always hardy, or seems to find our cli¬ 
mate uncongenial, but it is extremely 
beautiful. Among the roses named, Sou¬ 
venir de Claudius Pernet is new, and we 
have not tested it personally, but it is 
recommended for the garden among other 
roses of its class. It has extraordinary 
purity of color, and is large and beautiful 
of form. Austrian Copper and Harrison’s 
Yellow are single roses of great beauty, 
which should be treated as shrubs, as they 
would be out of place among Hybrid Teas. 
They are extremely hardy. Fall planting 
of dormant roses is desirable. 
3. It is quite an easy matter to propa¬ 
gate cuttings of the Rambler roses. As 
soon as the plants have flowered select 
some of the firm, ripe wood—shoots that 
have flowered are very good for this pur¬ 
pose. Cut them from 6 to 8 in. long, trim¬ 
ming the foliage and cutting the lower 
end at a slant just below a bud. Set 
these in well-drained light soil so that 
two buds project above the ground. They 
should be put in a rather sheltered place, 
but we have put such cuttings right 
against the fence where they were expect¬ 
ed to grow and had them do very well. If 
the season is dry, it is an advantage to 
invert a glass fruit jar over the cutting, 
but if it is damp it is quite likely to cause 
mildew, and we have had entire success 
without protecting with the fruit jar. Give 
these cuttings clean cultivation and treat 
them as you would an ordinary plant. In 
the Fall cover them with a mulch or some 
little protection, and you will find by 
next Spring that practically all of them 
have taken root. You will also find that 
you can root many of the Ramblers by 
layers. That is, bend down a ripe shoor 
and peg it to the ground a few inches 
from the tip, first cutting a little slit or 
heel in the bark on the under side, just 
through the outer bark. Then put a bit 
of earth over the space where the shoot is 
pegged down. By next Spring you will 
find a good tuft of roots at this place and 
the tip may then be cut from the parent 
plant with its roots and set as an indi¬ 
vidual plant. Most of the bush roses may 
be propagated in the same way, but there 
are some sorts that do not root easily un¬ 
der garden conditions. 
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Sudan Grass After Peas. 957 
Hope Farm Notes. 962 
A Curious Farm Situation.. 965 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Meeting of the Dairymen’s League Co-oper¬ 
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Dairy Cows and Debt. 965 
Swine Feeding and Breeds. 968 
Improving Ration . 968 
Ailing Hogs . 970 
Staggering Cows; Preventing Milk Fever.... 970 
What About This Heifer?. 972 
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