Insect Life, Volume 2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890
Devoted to the economy and life-habits of insects, especially in their relations to agriculture.
 

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Page 319 - A judgment that the defendant pay a fine may also direct that he be imprisoned until the fine be satisfied. But the judgment must specify the extent of the imprisonment, which must not exceed one day for every dollar of the fine...
Page 78 - ... shall require such person or persons to disinfect or destroy the same within a certain time, to be specified. If within such specified time such disinfection or destruction has not been accomplished, the said person or persons shall be required to make application of such treatment for the purpose of destroy ing them as said Commissioners may prescribe.
Page 77 - ... moth, or other insects that are destructive to trees, and praying that a commission be appointed by them whose duty it shall be to supervise their destruction...
Page 155 - About the year 1675. appear'd three prodigies in that country, which from th' attending disasters were look'd upon as ominous presages. The one was a large comet every evening for a week, or more at South-west ; thirty-five degrees high streaming like a horse taile Westwards, untill it reach'd (almost) the horrison, and setting towards the Northwest.
Page 78 - State board of horticulture may issue commissions as quarantine guardians to the members of said county board of horticultural commissioners and to the local inspectors thereof. The said quarantine guardians, local inspectors, or members of said county boards of horticultural commissioners shall have...
Page 108 - November 1," but the work has gone on with such amazing speed and thoroughness that I am to-day confident that •the pest will have been exterminated from my trees by the middle of August. People are coming here daily, and by placing infested branches upon the ground beneath my trees for two hours can secure colonies of thousands of the Vedalia, which are there in countless numbers seeking food. Over fifty thousand have been taken away to other orchards during the...
Page 417 - INSECT LIFE. Devoted to the economy and life-habits of insects, especially in their relations to agriculture.
Page 259 - Folk-lore," published in a recent number of Scribner's Magazine) as current among the Mexicans: "To Get Rid of Cockroaches. — Catch three and put them in a bottle, and so carry them to where two roads cross. Here hold the bottle upside down, and as they fall out repeat aloud three credos. Then all the cockroaches in the house from which these three came will go away.
Page 180 - ... spread in all directions, although, to begin with, they followed the direction of the wind most readily. From those four trees they have multiplied so rapidly that in my orchard of three thousand trees it is seldom that we can now find a Fluted Scale. I find a few of them on some weeds in spots, but I can also find the beetles there. The trees have put on a new growth and look altogether different: even the black fungus on the old leaves has loosened its hold and begins to fall to the ground....
Page 70 - Icerya-iut'ested trees in the open air proved successful. The orange and other trees — about seventy-five in number — and also the shrubs and plants growing in Mr. Wolfskill's yard, have been practically cleared of Iceryas by these Lady-birds, and the latter have of their own accord spread to the adjoining trees to a distance of fully three-fourths of a mile from the original tree.

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