This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...to have reached Kansas. This report was published in 1877. In the Third Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 1881-82, Prof. E. A. Popenoe says: In the last few years it has been extending its range northward through Kansas, until now it appears to have spread over the greater part of the State. In ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...to have reached Kansas. This report was published in 1877. In the Third Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 1881-82, Prof. E. A. Popenoe says: In the last few years it has been extending its range northward through Kansas, until now it appears to have spread over the greater part of the State. In the Report of the Kansas State Horticultural Society for 1882, Mr. A. N. Godfrey reports that the pest appeared about the last week in July (1882) in Greenwood county in great numbers. It was found on cabbage, turnips, horse-radish, and mustard. He declares that it is generally considered a new insect among the farmers. In recent years it appears to have done little injury in the State. IMPORTED CABBAGE-WORM. (Pieris rapce Linn.; Order, Lepidoptera.) Diagnosis.--Infesting cabbage; a naked, green caterpillar about li inches long, with a yellowish stripe along the back and a row of yellow spots along each side, and dotted all over with black, feeding on the leaves. Description and Lije-history.--The adult insect is a common white butterfly, the female having two black spots on each fore wing, while the male has but one black spot on each fore wing. The wings expand about 11 inches. The eggs are laid singly or in groups of two or three each on the young cabbage leaves; the larvae, soon hatched, feed on the foliage and become fullgrown in about two weeks. Changing to chrysalids, they remain in this quiescent stage for about 10 days, when the butterflies emerge and lay eggs for another brood of worms. There are several generations each season. The insect passes the winter in the chrysalid stage. Remedies.--When the worms appear in great numbers they are often entirely swept away in a given region by the spread of a contagious bacterial disease. Pro...
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