Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests ... with Methods of Prevention and RemedySimpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, 1878 - Beneficial insects |
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Page 44 - ... to. But I should be ungrateful and fail in proper thankfulness if I did not acknowledge that, for this benefit to British fruit-growers from the use of Paris green, we are indebted, I believe, primarily, to the exertions of our respected friend, now holding the distinguished office of Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture of the United States of America, and likewise to the careful working forward of the subject both in the United States of America and Canada, and for myself I am bound...
Page 10 - ... exceeding five shillings, in addition to the costs, unless such person shall prove that the said wild bird was either killed or taken or bought or received during the period in which such wild bird could be legally killed or taken, or from some person residing out of the United Kingdom. This section shall not apply to the owner or occupier of any land, or to any person authorised by the owner or occupier of any land, killing or taking any wild bird on such land not included in the schedule hereto...
Page 8 - Sparrows having been almost entirely absent from my place for years, if they took insects which other birds will not, such insects would increase, and the sparrows killed there would show this. Now it has been quite as unusual to find an insect in an old sparrow there as elsewhere. In fifty of all ages, from the time they first feed themselves, killed there one summer with food in their crops, this consisted of corn, milky, green, and ripe, and sometimes green peas ; only two small insects were found...
Page 96 - G), consists of a can, capable of holding about eight gallons of liquid, and so formed as to rest easy on the back, to which it is fastened, knapsack-fashion, by adjustable straps, which reach over the shoulders and fasten across the breast. To the lower part of the can are attached two rubber tubes, which are connected with two nozzles or sprinklers. The inside of the can has three shelves, which help to keep the mixture stirred. There is a convenient lever at the bottom which presses the tubes...
Page 8 - The question remains whether they do good enough in gardens to make up for such misdeeds there. For some years I carefully investigated the question of sparrows' food, examining that taken out of thousands, old and young, killed at all sorts of times and places. The general result was that the old ones contained little else but corn, rarely an insect. The young are fed with a great variety of food — corn, green and ripe, green peas, insects, &o.
Page 33 - ... the females lay their eggs, which begins, at least it did this year, with the month of June. Hence I suppose that each sex is disclosed from the pupa in the genial month of May. " Although these insects are so numerous in the evening, yet in the morning not a single one is to be seen upon the wing : they do not, however, then quit the field which is the scene of their employment; for, upon shaking the stalks of the wheat, or otherwise disturbing them, they will fly about near the ground in great...
Page 27 - If the lea is broken in the autumn, to have green crops in the following year, I have the land worked as much as possible, and apply 8 tons hot lime to the statute acre ; lime as hot as possible. I always sow the seed with a liberal dressing of farmyard dung, for such crops as Mangold, Turnip, Cabbage, Carrot and Parsnip, and I use the following dressing of artificial : — 2 cwt. best bone meal, 1 cwt. nitrate of soda, and 8 cwt.
Page 8 - Remedy: — Boil a handful of nettles in a gallon of small beer, then add half a pound of flour of sulphur, a quarter of a pound of pulverized aniseeds, three ounces of liquorice, and a quarter of a pound of elecampane. Give this liquid in milk, at six doses ; and keep the diseased animals on wholesome food.
Page 2 - Our camps will afford a refuge to the trading classes of Sinde, as would the district of Shikarpore (if a British possession) to the agricultural. And it appears to me, that the only method by which we can compel the Ameers to good government, without the direct interference, which is so much to be deprecated, is by the example of our own better government over the spots we secure in the heart of their country, and which, as giving refuge to Sinde subjects who are driven by tyranny to seek it, would...
Page 41 - About 3 inches in expanse ; fore-wings rich brown, varied and mottled with darker markings, crossing the wings in waved lines ; the hinder wings somewhat similarly marked, but of a dull pale brown. The caterpillar is flesh-coloured in its early stage, with a black head, and broad dull red stripe down the back ; the colouring- becomes more definitely red on the back and orange at the sides as the caterpillar gets towards full growth, when it is as much as 3 or 4 inches in length.