TITE SUNDAY OREGONTAX, PORTLAND. JUNE i. 1920
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ROBINS AND OTHER BIRDS FRIENDLY
"PESTS" TO GARDENER, SAYS SCIENTIST
But for Feathered Insect-eaters Garden Losses Yearly Would Be Increased by Millions "Protect Crop, but
Save Birds," Suggested as .Slogan Particular Service Rendered by Number of Species.
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THR truck gardeners of the United
States are losing- J60.000.000 a
year as a result of the ravages
of pestiferous insects. This amount,
were it not for the birds, would le
augmented by six million more dol
lars. Nearly everybody these days has
at least a home garden in which he
not only takes a wholesome pride
but also derives considerable satis
faction and some profit. How would
it seem, I wonder, to get up some
morning and find his promising to
mato plants laid low" by the treach
erous cutworm? Such a thing is lia
ble to happen at any time, but the
danger is not nearly as great if a
russet-back thrush, or a robin, or
even a meadowlark Is nesting near
thus back yard. for these- birds are.
especially fond of the - greasy cut
worm. They do not limit themselves, how
ever, to this particular form of in
sect. The thrush, for example, en
joys good digestion, since he habit
ually feeds on several varieties of
hard-shelled beetles, including wee
vils and snout -beetles, ants, wild bees,
wasps and caterpillars, tree hoppers,
sting bugs, scales and leaf-rollers.
He does not go much on vegetable
foods, since his food for the year
averages 62 per cent animal matter.
Itobin Friendly lFt.
The rohin, although not so consist
ently an insect feeder as the thrush,
consumes vast quantities of garden
pests. The late Professor Beal of the
bureau of biological survey makes the
statement that, upon examination of
robin stomachs collected from
different regions of the country, 42
per cent of the contents consisted of
animal remains. Only 8 per cent of
the vegetable matter could be classed
as fruit of the cultivated varieties.
In June and July only do the .robins
make inroads on the garden fruit
but on this account I have heard peo
ple say the robins are a pest. They
ate up half of the cherries on my
trees last year. And if they come
around again this year, I'm going to
shoot 'em."
Better use blank cartridges, say I.
bhoo them off. It will pay in the end
Before me I have the record of the
contents of five robins' stomachs
taken in October and January. One
of them contained 65 leather-back
- grubs, another 165, and a third 210.
T hese grubs or "worms are pests to
grain, grass and root crops as well
as to some of the garden vegetables
"Protect the crop, but save the bird."
Let that be our slogan.
Other nird Helpful.
Among the other birds that slip into
our gardens, with the first dawn
long before you and I are awake
are the bluebird, the chippy, the house
wren, the liff and violet-green swal
lows, the downy woodpecker, the red
shafted flicker and several more birds
besides. The rusty song sparrow, al
though not strictly an insectivorous
bird, you may observe at any time of
the day poking around in the beans
or peas snapping tip a flea-beetle here
or a pea-weevil there.'
It may be interesting to note in par
ticular how certain members of the
bird patrol guard the interests of the
home gardenef.
According to circular 91 of the Ore
gon Agricultural college some 22 dif
ferent garden pests are described.
Kight of these attack at large all
garden truck. Among them may be
mentioned the greasy cutworm, grass
hoppers, blister-beetles and wire
worms. Two especially are reported
on potatoes and 'tomatoes, a flea!
beetle and a tuber moth. Maggots,
aphids and cabbage worms are de
structive to cabbages, radishes and
Hied plants. Two species of beetles
are found on cucumbers, cantaloupes
and squashes, and a species of thrips
is aaid to prey on onions, a number
.r other vegetables and some orna
mental ;lants.
bluebird Kind Brctlca.
ttonny bluebird 'is especially fond
Of beetles, bugs, grasshoppers and
caterpillars. So is little wren. One
half of wren's food consists of beetles
fcua Mopper, but she does not hesi
tate at cutworms, weevils, ticks,
aphids or vpiders whenever they come
her way. xt times the chippy is aa
keen on beetles and caterpillars as
are the wrens and bluebirds, but she
sometimes draws the line on large
grasshoppers. One chipping sparrow
has been reported with 30 weevils in
her craw. And I have orten watched
the chippies prowling amid the
branches of an apple tree and have
seen them turn the head to one side
and deftly extract a leaf-roller from
Its silken couch .in the fold of a leaf.
"One hundred per cent efficiency"
tti the motto of the swallows. They
t only Insect. One hundred anil
?oi?j- jfjzs- Ssyyi? syisr a? jccfrs-.
In his bill, held fast, was
ten stomachs of the northern violet-. male.
green swallow, collected between Ari-T
jiona and Alaska, were examined by
a federal expert and were found to
contain the following percentages of
insect remains: Leaf bugs. 35.96 per
cent; wasps and bees (no honeybees).
17.48 per cent; beetles, 10.5 per cent;
ants, 9.42 per cent; flies. "9.36 per
cent. In the spring the proportion of
flies increases to 50 per cent.
Swallows 4et (inatH.
Almost all of these insects were
taken on the wing. Watch some eve
ning, as the twilight is gathering,
and you will see the swallows dart
ing hither and yon. Downward they
will swoop to scoop up a gnat. Or
they may dodge, now this way, now
that, to snap a midge or a wandering
bug.
Practically all of the birds visiting
the home garden, whether insectivor
ous or seed-eaters, feed their young
ones on soft-bodied insects or larvae.
Only last week a pair of Knglish spar
rows, notorious seed-eaters, began
making regular trips from the garden
and fruit trees to a nook under the
eaves of my house. For several days
past they bad been interfering with
the nest-building efforts of a pair of
violet-green swallows, so I shot the
green green-appie worm.
The following is reported ' of the
chippy at brooding time: "A nest of
four young of this species was
watched at different hours on four
days- In the seven hours of observa
tion 119 feedings were-made; an av
erage of 17 feedings an hour, or four
and one-half feedings an hour to each
nestling.
The -story is told of one young robin
which consumed 165 cutworms in one
day. Before feeding he weighed three
ounces. The weight of the worms
was one and six tenths times as great.
The wrens nest more than once a
summer, some of' thetn rearing as
many as 16 offspring. What hungry
little fellows they are, and what de
liciously horrid little morsels go into
their gaping mouths.' ' '
If you wish to see for yourself, or
if you are a boy and must find some
thing to do to keep out, of mischief,
get a large-sized umbrella and tack
on to the rim of it some dark green
cambric. Set this blind up near a
nest of fledgings, not too "near, and
after the birds have' become accus
tomed to it, sneak in under a flap or
the blind and peek through. Take
along your kodak next time and get'
a roll of pictures. .
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12AR FRIENDS: It was not my
pose to unite both insect
es and diseases of plants.
as we have recently had a fine series
of articles on this subject, but Pro
fessor Lovett of Oregon Agricultural
college who wrote the articles, called
ni attention to the fact that he only
wrote of the insect enemies of plants
and. not at all of the diseases to which
plants are subject, and these plant
diseases should be discussed.
The garden spray calendar, which I
give you today, is also well worth
your consideration, as it collects and
presents in systematic form Professor
lyovett's advice, with others, making
it much easier for reference.
If this garden spray calendar is cut
out, mounted on pasteboard and kept
in a place where it will be convenient
for common use, you will usually
know at once what is the trouble with
any plant that is not doing well. I
will also give the formulae for the
spray solutions and other prepara
Vtions mentioned in the calendar, a:
some of you may not have Professor
Lovett's work or may like to have
these recipes all combined.
AVe Must Have a Spray l'nmD.
Before we can use these various
remedies for insects and plant dis
eases we must have a spray pump
with which to apply them. This spray
pump should be a good-sized, sub
stantial pump having power enough
to throw the liquid strongly and made
of material that will not corrode
when acids are used in it. For a tiny
garden or a hedge of roses we may
perhaps get along with a spray pump
that holds a quart or two of liquid
and costs from id cents up. For
good-sized family garden some kind
of a portable sprayer that holds three
or four gallons will be needed. Be
sure to buy. one that has a brass con
tainer even though It costs more, for
the brass will not corrode by the ac
tion of the acids used in spraying,
which soon rot out tin or other kinds
These sprayers with brass contain
er, holding three gallons, can be pur
chased -at seed stores, hardware
stores and other places. The price va
ries so much that it pays to look
around a little before purchasing, and
touched by the spray makes a sure
refuge for the bugs, where. they can
breed and multiply again and soon
cover your plant. '
Fruit growers always notice the
wind and spray from the side where 1
the wind will carry the spray onto
the plant. By watching you can often
catch the wind In various quarters
and spray different sides of a large
plant, brush or tree with the wind
from each direction.
The under side of all the leaves
must be very carefully wet with the
spray, as well as the upper side, as it
is often the under side where the in
sects congregate; also the Inside of
curled-up leaves' must be reached.
Vegetables Have Many Dlseaaea.
Wholly aside from the outside In
sects, which prey upon our plants
and about which we have heard so
much, they have diseases of their own
that afflict them. Of course plants
suffer, just as children do, from what
we call malnutrition lack of enough
food, or of a "properly-balanced ra
tion." We will consider this later un
der plant needs and fertilizers.
But plants also are afflicted some
times by minute vegetable parasites
that' fasten themselves upon them and
live off of them. These are called
fungi, and a spray that will destroy
them or prevent their growth Is called
a fungicide. Fungi produce diseases
known variously as rust, smut, mold, I
mildew, blight, rot, etc.. on vegetables
or fruit, and are really minute, thread
like plants that, growing on the sur
face of other plants. Just as those
plants grow in the ground, suck all
their' food from these plants and
weaken them so that the leaves may
fall off, the fruit become spotted and
decayed or the plant wilt and die.
These fungi are like mushrooms,
their seeds explode like powder, shoot-
ng the tiny seeds (too small to De
seen) in every direction. The wind
carries them for miles at a time, so
there are few localities where these
seed spores may not be found ready
to grow under favorable conditions.
These conditions are generally
moisture and heat combined. The
spores need actual water, like rain or
dew, to germinate, and this explains
why our roses and other plants are
so apt to mildew in wet weather, es
pecially If It is also too warm.
After the spores become rooted on
the foliage- of the plant they grow
by sucking up the Juices of the plant.
This robbing the plant of Its life
fluid causes an injury similar to rob-,
bing our body of blood.
We cannot control the weather, ex
cept in not watering our gardens too
much especially those plants subject
to mildew and other spore diseases
but we can strife ta have our plants
strong and vigorous to resist disease.
Here Is another place where plants
are just like people. It is the delicate,
weakly ones that become the prey, to
disease. The strong, well, sturdy ones
resist the attack of the enemy and
come' through safely. So we must
strive to keep our plants strong and
sturdy by good cultivation and also by
keeping them free from destructive
insects.
One Spray for Diseases and Insects.
As we have to spray some things
for blight and others for bugs (or
possibly will need both at once on the
same plant), why not cofnbine them
and spray with one material? It is
entirely possible to-do so, aa the -ingredients
mix readily and will . not
harm any plant, even if nothing at all
is the matter with it. Indeed it is ad
vised that we begin to .spray some
plants beans, for instance as soon
as they come through the ground as
a preventive of blight, and again as
they, come into bud for the same rea
son. This is. of course, most neces-
sary in sections where damage from
blight is to be expected.
But as the combined spray cannot
hurt our plants. it appeals particu
larly to the inexperienced gardener,
who may -not know Just what does ail
his plants, but will be glad to have
ready a "general cure-all," which by
the combination saves both time and
expense.
For bugs alone we usually use 'ar
senate -of lead as a spray a poison
which sticksto the leaves and does
not wash off by rain as parts green
does. For large quantities one pound
of the dry powder to about 33 gallons
of water is used, but for garden use
on truck crops three to four level
tablespoonfuls to one gallon of water
is the right proportion.
For blight alone we use bordeaux
mixture, which is a combination of
copper sulphate and lime. It can be
obtained, ready mixed, in a dry form
called "Fungi-Bordo," which is very
convenient. It is prepared by using
about seven gallons of water with one
pound of the powder. It should be
applied when the disease appears and
repeated every ten days or two weeks
as needed. Make only what you want
to use each time, as bortfeaux mix
ture cannot be "kept over" till an
other time.
For the combination spray which I
mentioned at first, our v local seed'
houses have a vey good preparation
called "Insecto" or "Insecto Bordeaux,"
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. How to V the. Spray Pump,
If you buy & spray pump that i
hung from your shoulder by a strap
It is easily handled, even though it
contains many pounds of liquid. A sin
gle pumping charges It vith com
pressed air, which will force out the
liquid for perhaps ten minutes, and
you can walk through the rows o
plants, applying the spraying material
as you go, and spray the entire gar
den In a short time.
Above ail things, when you do us
any of the sprays recommended, spra
thoroughly, Partial or weak spraying
is little bettor than none
See that -the whole plant, from roo
to top Is thoroughly saturated stem,
branches and leaves. One- spot ua
GARDEN SPRAY CALENDAR
CROP.
Beans.'
Cabbage,
Cauliflower
and related .crops.
Celery.
weet Cora.
Cucumbers,
Melons.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Eggplant.
Lettuce.
Radish, -
Teraatt, .
NAME OF PEST.
BUeht.
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Leaf Beetles.
llue or AphidBi '
SymphiJids.
Cutw-orms. .
Green Worms.
Root Maggot.
Lice or Aphids
Harlequin .Bugs.
Blight.
Ear Worm.
Dlabrotlca Beetle.
Striped Beetle.
Flea Beetle.
Lice or Aphids.
Dlabrotlca Beetle.
Bllg-ht. . . x
Flea Beetle, -
Blight and
Fruit Rot,
Drop or "Wilt.
Root Vaa-ffota.
Spring. y
Spring. -
Spring.
Spring.
Mid-peasou.
Just after trans
planting. Spring.
Summer.
Late summer.
When eara are
milk stage.
Just after germina
tion.
Thrips.
Liee or Aphids.
Beetle.
Flea
Colorado Potato t-.,
Beetle..
Blister Beetle,
Tipburaf
Early Blight,
Late Blight,
RoetrHaggot, '
Fruit Worm,
Blossom Bud Rot.
Leaf Blight. K
Cutworm., 1
TIME OF WORST
injury-
nature: OF INJURY.
Brown spots
leaves.
on podM and
Holes in leaves.
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Wilting of leaves and vinea.
Seeds fail to come up.
Young plants wilt and .die.
Plant cut Just above ground.
Large hales in leaves.
Stunted plants; injured sterna
Wilting and curling of leaves.
Stunting and wilting of plants.
Grayinh-brown patches on the
leaves ana stems.
Shocks and kernel of corn
eaten up .wormy cars.
Eat foliage; eat off all silk
iron ears.
CONTROL.
Spring.
Late spring or
summer. -
Summer.
Lgte summer.
Late summer.
Early spring.
Soon after planting.
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Mid-summer. '
Spring
Spring.1
I Ate spring and
early- sum roar.
Early summer. :
Burtmef, " ''
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Summer er early
fall. -
Soon after planting.
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All season.
Tite Hummer In
dry weather.
Summer.
Just after transplanting.
Leaves and
clean.
stems eaten off
Leaves riddled with shot holes.
8tunting and wilting of plant;
unusually oara color; sticky
honey dew on leaves.
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Eat foliage, mine the rind and
skin of fruit, giving a rough
ened, pimply appearance.
Brown patches on leaves.
Eat Irregular holes In foliage.
Brown and yellow spot on
leaves, brown rot of rindy .
Complete wilting and eollapse
Stunted plants and deformed
roots.
Straw-encored patches, v drying
Yellowing and wilting of vines.
Punetures of leaves.
Defoliation of stems.
Defoliation of stems.
Brewnlng and purling of the
eavee.
Round brown , or water-soaked
spots.
Stunted leaves and deformed
roots.
Punctures Hi fruit.
Black ret at tip end of fruit.
Browning and dropping of the
leaves.
Flaius cut Just abovo ground
Pick and burn. Spray thoroughly
and repeatedly with Bordeaux
mixture, with soap added.
Spray every ten days with arsen
ate -of lead. ' . , -
Sorav . with nicotine sulphate.
Blaeic Leaf 40 or kerosene
emulsion and repeat as neces
sary. - . .
Stir soil by frequent cultivation.
Sunlight kills them at once.
Protect by collar When setting
plants. Use poison bran mach.
DuHt with parls green and lime,
or spray with arsenate of lead
Place tar paper discs around each
plant. Four diluted carboliu
acid emulsion around each. Use
Carco or MuRitite. V
Spray both sides of leaves' with
nirotine solution or strong soup
suds.
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Hand picking. , .
Repeated and thorough- spraying
,vith Bordeaux mixture. .
Dust ears when silking with ar
senate of lead and lime.
Plant trap crops. Spray or dust
with an arsenical poison, re
peating as necessary.
Dust with any finematerlal or
spray with Bordeaux plus ar
senate of lead.
Spray, with Bordeaux plus arson
ate of lead.
Spraying with nicotine solution on
tinder sine oi leaves, mack jear
40 or kerosene emulsion ;
pCftting.
Use screens for small plants. Plant .
trap crops, spray or oust witn
an arsenical poison. '
Spray both pfdes of leaves with
nicotine solution. , ,
Spray under side of leaves with
Bordeaux: repeat every " two
weeks (
Spray with Bordeaux mixture. j
voiding
they are corrosive in their action on
the parts of your spray pump which
they touch. If you rinse out your
spray pump very carefully with clean
water after each spraying your pump
will last many times as Jong, so be
sure to do this.
Next week we will discuss the
sprays and other preparations for
fighting insect enemies.
lour garden neighbor,
INEZ OAOK CHATEL.
RESORTS IN FULL SWING
California Offers Many Attractions
to Kastern Visitors.
SA.V FRANCISCO, June 12. Cali
fornia's famous resorts will be In full
swing of their summer season when
the national democratic convention
meets here late thta month.
Those who come here by the central
route will pass Lake Tahoe In the
Sierra Nevada mountains at the cen
ter of the state's eastern, border.
South of Tahoe about 100 miles is
Yosemite valley with Its great red
wood trees.
Only a few miles north of San Fran
cisco, across the Golden Gate, Is th
John Muir grove of redwoods at the
fo6t of Mount Tamalpais, and another
noteworthy grove is in California
Redwood Park, about 100 miles, south
'Along the coast are the seaside re
sorts of Del Monte, Santa Crus and
Santa Barbara, which range south
ward to the Los Angeles district,
where are located Santa Catalina
island and a half dozen beaches. On
San Dieso bay. not far from Tijuana
on the Mexican border, is Conmido.
Among the interesting points near
San Francisco is Stanford university,
30 miles south down the peninsula on
the tip of which this city is built
Twenty miles south of Stanford, San
Jose lies in the center of the Santa
Clara valley deciduous fruit district.
Across the bay eastward from San
Francisco is Berkeley, home of the
University of California, and adjoin
ing are the shipyard cities of Oak
land, with approximately 180,000 ln-
habltanta, and Alameda, with about
40.000.
The state capital, Sacramento, is
midway between San Francisco and
Lake Tahoe.
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WARSAW, June 12. A treaty was
signed In Warsaw, recently between
the free city of Dansig and the re
public of Poland, assuring Dansig of
liberal supply of . provisions until
the new harvest. In return Danxig
agreed to send to Poland 500 tons of
sugar, marmalade and fruits.
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Use volunt.er onions a traps: De--lay.
thinning and remove - In
. fested plants.
Spray with nlentlne solution plus
soapsuds or whale ell soap.
Spray with nicotine solution or
Black taf 0.
Spray with Bordeaux plus arsen
ate of lead
Spray with . arsenate f 1ad or
dust' with' pari sreon, and llmt.
Spray with arsenate oS .lead, doa
ble strength.
Spray 'with Bordeaux.' mulch or
Irrigate between rows.
Spray with Bordeaus) mixture.1
Carbolic acid solution,' Carco or
Maslllte 4Hured around each.
Dust hsavlly with equal parts of
arsenate- of. lead and lime.
Muietr plants with- straw ar Irri
gate between the rows.
Spray with Bordeaux mixture sev
eral timss during the summer.
Poinon worniB with bait: slip a
collar of stiff psper around each
plant when setting-
What Causes Falling Hair?
Sometimes it is dandruff, sometimes it is "Alopecia Pityrodes,"
and then again it may be some other of the many hair and
scalp ailments. ,
Prof. John H. Austin
(OF CHICAGO)
Years a Bacteriologist, Hair and
Scalp Specialist
Says that the only certain way of
determining hair and scalp troubles
is with a powerful microscope
and once the cause is known, it is
then a simple matter to rftop the
trouble.
Free Microscopic Examination of the Hair and Scalp.
Find out how to stop that falling hair before
baldness overtakes you.
(Women need not take down their hair)
Private Offices at the Owl Drug Co.
" Broadway and Washington
Weak Eyes
Lavoptik
There has never been anything in
Portland with the QUICK results of
simple witch haxel. camphor, .Hydras
tis, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik eye
wash. In one case of weak, inflamed
eyes a few days' -use of Lavoptik
brought surprising; results. In an
other case-TWO applications relieved
eye pains. The witch hazel and cam
phor Boothe anfl relieve the Inflamma
tion: the hydrastis and other ingre
dients have tonic and antiseptic prop
erties. We guarantee a small bottle
Lavoptik to. help ANY CASK weak,
strained or Inflamed eyes. Aluminum
eye cup FREB. Skldmore Drug O.
and all leading druggists Adv.
New, Positive Treatment
to Remove Hair or Fuzz
(Beauty Notes) '7.
Women are fast learning the value
of the use of delatone for removing
hair or fuss from the face, neck or
arms. A paste is made with some
powdered delatone and water and
spread on the hairy surface. In" 1 or 3
minutes it is rubbed off. the sRin
i washed and every bit of hair has dis
appeared. No failure will result if you
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