THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, May 24, 1940
Entomologist Barc's . . .
Survey reveals damp weather
fails to check chinch bug
. . . but federal aid on way
Federal air in Nebraska chinch
bug control work has just been
formally requested, it was an
nounced today.
The request was made jointly
by W. H. Brokaw, director of the
extension service: Lnuis Buchholz,
director of the state department of
agriculture and inspection; and
Prof. Myron H. Swenk, chairman
of the department of entomology,
in a letter addressed to Secretary
of Agriculture HencjcA. Wallace
and Lee A. Strong, chief of the
U. S. Bureau f Entomology and
Plant Quarantine.
Copies of the letter were sent
to all Nebraska congressmen.
The appeal for funds was based
on surveys indicating that chinch
bugs over-wintered in unusual
numbers in at least 16 southeast
ern Nebraska counties and that
the bugs are now widely dis
tributed in menacing numbers
throughtout small grain fields in
that area.
The cool damp weather of April
and early May apparently checked
the chinch bug threat but little
according to the survey completed
by Extension Entomologist O.
S. Bare of ag college and Dis
trict Supervisor Charles Keech of
the U. S. Bureau of Entomology
and Plant Quarantine. The results
wore released this week by
Frolessor M. H. Swenk, chairman
of the department of entomology.
The survey including Cage, Pavv
r.ee, Richai dson, Nemaha, Johnson,
Otoe, Cass. Sarpy, Douglas and the
eastern parts of Saunders and
Lancaster counties.
The cold, backward spring de
layed the emergence of chinch
bugs from the'r winter quart -rs
in b-ii'.t h r by at le--.;t Iv-..
or thro.' weeks, t,ut
did not result in any great mor
tality among the adult bugs, which
now are generally distributed thru
out the small grain fields. The
bugs are found in greatest num
bers in winter wheat and barley,
with an occasional field of oats
showing heavy Infestation. Heavy,
rank-growing stands of wheat
showed fewer chinch bugs than
stands that were thinner and les3
rank.
Heaviest infestations were found
in the southeastern counties, but
all Missouri River counties were in
general heavily infested, and scat
tered heavily infested spots were
found in all of the other counties
included in the survey. The infes
tations became gradually lighter
as the distance from the Missouri
and Platte Rivers increased.
Psychology class
to hear Earl May
Because his first address to Dr.
Walton's psychology class about
two weeks ago was so much ap
preciated, Earl E. May. midwest
em radio magnate and alumnus
of the university, has accepted a
second invitation to appear before
the class at 11 Monday morning,
in social science 201. Dr. Walton,
of the psychology department re
vealed today.
Radio personalities, especially
announcer personalities; audience
appeals; audience habits; memory
devices; and building up of a good
feeling tone will be discussed by
May, who is recognized as a
pioneer in his particular field of
radio. He has been called to Wash
ington several times to give the
FCC suggestions. According to Dr.
Walton, May's morning talk will
be open to all students who wish
to attend.
Alford says horse sickness
epidemic possible this year
Magazine offers
job in contest
For the best student article on
any subject Scribner's Commenta
tor magazine is offering a prize of
a job from June to October, in a
contest which closes June 1.
s Second prize in the contest,
which is open to any undergrad
uate student in an American col
lege is $206, third prize is $50,
and sixteen fourth prizes of $25
each are offered.
Rules of the contest are: the ar
ticle must not be over 3,000 words
in length, and must be of a type
suitable for publication in Scrib
ner's. All manuscripts will be
come the property of Scribner's
magazine.
Despite the drop in cases of
sleeping sickness in horses in Ne
braska from nearly 12,000 in 1938
down to 600 in 1939, an epidemic
of this sort is still entirely possible
again this year, according to Dr.
S. W. Alford, livestock sanitation
expert of ag college.
"The safest procedure would be
to have horses and mules vacci
nated against sleeping sickness be
fore June 1, because innnunitv
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v. ill enjoy ho..:e-pio iurod meat,
v, h'.ch was stored last winter, dur
ing tlii:-; ciop season, according to
Pi of, V. .1. I-oeffel of ag college.
established by last year's vaccina
tion cannot be depended upon to
protect horses this year, and there
is danger that early vaccination
may be neglected.
Protective vaccine.
''The chick embryo vaccine is
the only one that will afford pro
tection, and its price is much
lower than last year," Dr. Alford
tells farmers who write in for
advice.
In the United States there was
a decrease in number of cases
from lS5.(i(Hi in 1938 to S.000 in
1939. It is impossible to say
whether this drop is due to j.ie
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