The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 18, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
THE AXT AS A DAIKVMW.
Industrious insert .Not Only Work?
But Keeps l ows to Work for Him.
The home gardener who lias oul)
time t'o dig and plant and cultivate
and spray for bugs and blights m' >e.:
much of the pleasure o: gardening
for there is as much to interest the
naturalist, floral or animal, in the
home garden as anywhere else or
earth. One need not seek a foreign
land or a forest for his nature study,
for a backyard garden will give full
opportunity. The growing habits ot
his common vegetables and the insects
that attack them will, with a little
observation, provide pleasing amazement.
And no insects are more interesting
than the tiny plant-lice or
aphids, which grow in a large number
of forms and suck the juice from various
kinds of plants.
The most remarkable thing about
some of the aphids is their partnership
with other insects. .Many forms
of the aphids are fostered and protected
from the beginning to the end of
their little lives by the industrious
ants. The partnership seems to have
?v- reached a most perfect form in the
case of the corn root-aphis and the
cornfield ant, and it is usually found
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that where there are aphids there are
ants.
The partnership of ant and aphis?
the corn ant and the corn root-aphis
?operates in nearly every section
, where corn is grown east of the Rocky
Mountains. The workings of the
partnership have been compared to a
subteanean dairy, with the aphis as
the ant's "cow. me am unccuug mo
enterprise, the aphis doing the work,
and the ant getting the profits. The
ant is* not directly harmful to the corn,
but the aphis is. Without the ant,
however, the firm wculd have to go
out of business, and that is why the
department of agriculture tells farm:
ers who want to get^rid of the corn
root-aphis &o get rid of the ant. The
same advice applies in the case of
certain* other forms of root-aphis.
This is how the subteranean dairy
works:
In the fall the ants carry the eggs
of the aphis to their nests and care
for them as they do their for own
young. In the spring, when the eggs
hatch, the ants tunnel along weed
roots and place The helpless aphids
on the roots. Soon the aphids begin
. to-give off "honey-dew," made from
the juice of the plants on which the
aphids are resting. The ants dearly
love "honeydew," and they tenderly
watch over and care for their "cows."
!
The aphids are wholly dependent
throughout their life on the ants.
The first two or three generations
of the aphids live entirely on the
roots of weeds, but as soon as the
newly planted corn sprouts the ants
/ transfer the aphis to the more succulent
corn roots. After two or three
successive generations, many of the
aphids may be winged, and some es
cape from the ground through the ant
tunnels and fly away to a new field.
L If they chance to alight near an ant
hill they are seized immediately by
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the watchful ants, carried into their
burrows, placed on roots, and honeydew
production starts again.
Wfcen cold weather is approaching
and the ant carries the aphids' eggs
and the young ants deeper into the
soil, the ant goes at least eight inches
, under the soil and eight inches is
deeper than the ordinary plow furrow,
r The particular aphis that attacks
corn is called the corn root aphis because
of its preference for that plant.
In" gardens it is very common on asters
and related plants. There are
many other varieties of aphids, however,
and for many of them ants have
a tender feeling. For instance, there,
are the aphids that attack orange
trees in California. The ants sur
round these aphids, attack other insects
that attempt to reath them, and
induce the aphids to excrete honeydew
by stroking their bodies with the
. * antennae, or feelers. Unfortunately
for the orange aphids, however, they
are attacked by winged parasites
which "sting" and lay eggs in them,
and these "arasites are so small and
active that tl.'? ants cannot successfully
defend-their charges.
The corn root-aphids in fields are
controlled by rotating with crops upon
which the aphids can not live by
plowing and disking, breaking up the
ant and aphid colonies and by the use
of certain pungent substances, mixed
with a chemical fertilizer and distributed
by means of a fertilizer attachment
to the corn planter. These substances
tend to drive away the ants
and prevent them from placing aphids
on the corn roots.
To home gardeners whose plants
are attacked by aphids, such as the
melon aphid, spinach aphid, potato
aphid, and the turnip and cabbage
aphids, which live above ground, the
specialists in agriculture recommend
spraying with 40 per cent, nicotine
sulphate at the rate of one teaspoonful
of the sulphate to 1 gallon of water,
in which has been dissolved a oneinch
cube of laundry soap.
Killing the ants, of course, by destroying
their colonies, will help in .the
control of the corn root-aphid in gardens,
and this is about the only way
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j "CHKK AMI'S" WAi: llECOUD.
>i How Soldier S'igoon Saved the Lost
llattni-or.
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The story of Che.r Ami. the soldier
i pigeon which saved "the iosi battal>
ion" and is the only bird in the Amer.
I ican armv which wears the distinI
! guished service cross, having lost its.
; left leg and tlie plumage from its
l breast in action, is told by Don C.
l Seiz in the June St. Nicholas.
"The airmen, with their wonderful
1 exploits in the sky, who added new
" chapters to the tales of war in the
; great world conflict, will have a broths
er in the hall of fame who belongs to
the really and truly feathered tribe?
a blue-grey and white carrier pigeon,
named, lovingly Cher Ami?'dear
' friend by his comrades of the earth.
i 1113 lUHe messenger uame lu
New York, April iG, 1910, on the
transport Oliioan, under the tender
care of Capt. John L. Carney of Pigeon
company No. 1. Out of the 1,000
pigeons who were members of his
command, Cher Ami is the most famous,
and lie, alone of all, is to wear
the distinguished service cross. Gen.
i E. E. Russell, chief signal officer of
the American expeditionary force, has
so recommended, and Gen. John J.
Pershing, the commander in chief,
has indorsed the recommendation.
"By Gen Pershing's orders, Cher
Ami voyaged from France with all the
honors due him for his great services;
and these were great indeed, for
it was this undersized pigeon that
saved the famous 'Lost Battalion,'
surrounded and starving for days in
the Argonne Forrest, its whereabouts
completely unknown. The signal
sergeant in the battalion commanded
by Major?now Lieut. Col.?Charles
W. Whitlesy, carried with him on the
advance Cher Ami. who had beei^
carefully trained by Capt. Carney, an
old soldier with a liking for homing
pigeons, which he cultivated at Pittsburg
between wars, having served in
Cuba and the Phillipines and China.
He took over this important messenger
service in France, where, after
a little time spent in studying geography
Cher Ami went on'active duty.
"In the Argonne this was lively
enough. The rough, wooded tefritory
afforded many hiding places for German
sharp shooters, always,on the .,
lookout for carrier pigeons. So when
the beleaguered battalion found itself
cut off and without food, a message
was tied to the bird's left leg, close
up under the feathers, Cher Ami could
not escape the keen eyes of the sharp
shooters. He was often fired at. One
bullet burned the plumage from his
breast where there is a wide scar over
which the feathers still refuse to
grow. Another cut' off his leg above
the middle joint. But the valiant
'homer' came in, the message dangling
from the wounded joint, telling
the peril of his comrades. This-made
it easy for the airmen to drop food
and cartidges to Major Whittesey's
men so that they found their way oufr
and made another record in the long
list of deeds credited to American
valor.
.. "By Gei>r Pershing's orders, Cher
Ami was billeted to come back a firstclass
passenger on the Ohioan in
Capt. Carney's stateroom! But he
pined for his companions in the pigeon
coop, and was returned to their
society.
"He had for fellow voyagers 100
captured German birds, who are to be
given the benefit of free institutions.
Cher Ami is to spend the rest of his
days in comfort as "a member of Hie
signal service in Washington, where
he is to have the best of everything
and be an example to the squabs as
they grow up. What tales he will be
able to tell them?in pigeon-English,
perhaps."
All He Asked.
They were standing outside the
front door having the final chat after
his evening call.
He was leaning against the doorpost,
talking in low, dulcet tones. She
was listening and gazing up rapturously
in his eyes.
Suddenly she turned round. The
door has opened: and there, just inside,
stood her father clad in a dressing-gown.
"My dear father," she asked, "what
is the matter?"
Her dear father ignored her question.
"John," he said, addressing the
I ?? ?~ (An- T Nrrv
!^uuiig nia.li, j> v u i\nu>> l vc u^? vi >
complained about your staying late,
and I'm not going to complain now;
but, for goodness' sake, stop leaning
against the bell-push. Other people
want some sleep, even if you don't."
?London Tit-Bits.
it can be controlled, since, living underground,
it cannot be attacked by
sprays. Another method is to pour a
little carbon disulphid into the entrance
with earth in order to keep the
poisonous fumes in the burrow.
Spraying with ' nicotine sulphate,
however, is the standard remedy for
most garden aphids, and should not
be postponed or neglected when they
are found to be present, as they increase
very rapidly and unless checked
soon kill the plants.
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G. R. SIMMONS
LOST CERTIFICATE OF STOCK.
The undersigned will on the 25th
day of March, 1920, apply to Enterprise
Bank, Bamberg, S. C., for one
new certificate of stock of said bank
in lieu of stock certificate No. 35 for
one share, which certificate Las been
lost or destroyed.
3-1 Sn MRS. J. L. GRAHAM.
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"X bought a package of Dr. LeGoar's
icL: Powders from my local
dealer and after feeding it to my
Jersey Cow, sir? increased from 6
cparts to quarts of milk par
day, and after continuing the Powders
for SO days longer, she in- creased
in butter fat from 5 pounds
to 10 pounds per week, and at the
end of 5 months, she was making
12 pounds cf butter fa" per week."
?L. B. Weaver, Grand Rapids Mich.
Mr, Weaver followed the advice
of Dr. LeOesr, Graduate Veterinary
Surgeon of 27 years experience, and
is money ahea d. Here -is the Doctor's
off to yci: Get a package
of Dr. I-c Stars Stock Powders from
your dealer! feed it to your horses,
milk cows, steers, hogs and sheep as
per direction and after a thorough
trial, if results ere not satisfactory,
just return the empty carton to
your dealer and your money will be
cheerfully refunded.?Dr. L. D.
*>Qear Med. Co., St. T.ouis, Mo.
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