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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1920)
fs Published each morning, except Monday, by the Publicity Department of the Agri- a and Mechanical College of Texas. Oficial Publication of the College. Dis- ~ 4ributed free to all students, instructors and Campus resiaents. Advertising rates fur- wished on application! as Office: L Wr ~~ Reom 113, first floor Academic Building —— WILLIAM BENNETT BIZZELL President of the College FRANK ©. MARTIN Secretary of Publicity , height it grows from the ground and ~~ the amount and kind of foliage. We have plenty of heat here with- in a given period to grow plants adapted to this climate, but we have other influences that greatly affect their growth, as drouth or = floods, which come frequently within the growing period. : Moisture We measure our precipitation in units of crop years. The amount of the rain-fall is of much less impor- tance than the distribution. In Western Texas we have two dry per- iods. One occurs in the middle of summer and the other in the middle of winter, consequently there is not enough rainfall distributed over a given period to insure crops west of San Antonio. governs agriculture. In concluding his lecture Mr. Leidigh said that climate depends on the following conditions; topography, an latitude, altitude, sunshine, fluctua- tion of weather and distance from body of water. A knowledge of cli- mate, and the conditions that control our plants for conditions here. The best that any seed grower claims for ~ his seed is what they will produce under the most favorable conditions. The Tachinidae or Parasitic Flies Mr. Reinhard took as his subject - the “Tachinidae or .Parasitic Flies.” " He divided his subject into five points as follows: The systematic position of the family Tachinidae, description, habits, life history and economic importance of the family. In a general way the family is one of the most specialized of the order Diptera. They are specialized from a structural standpoin: as well as from the standpoint of habit. The flies are classified with reference to the arrangement, number and size of the bristles on the body. The family may be described as rather small to rather large bristly flies, usually thick set. The first antennal joint is short, the second usually shorter than the third and the third joint more or less elongat- ed. The aristaa is bare, three joint- ed, the first joint is always short and often imperceptible, the second somewhat elongated. Simple eyes are always present. The abdomen is composed of four or five visible joints covered with erect spines. All veins of the wings are simple. As far as is known at the present time all species are parasitic on other living insects, among which are some of the most important crop pests. The eggs are usually deposit- ed upon the body of the host. The adult flies live on the nectar of flowers, and often times certain spec- ies which work certain kinds of flowers, become so abundant on these plants that they take such a consid- erable part of the nectar as to seri- ously interfere with the work of hon- ey bees working these same plants. it can be used by us in increasing That fact practically | | struction. | ENROLLMENT AT A. AND M. COLLEGE UP TO NOON YESTERDAY 1799 The eggs after being placed on the host, hatch in from four to six days and the maggot burrows into the host and lives upon the body juices. The vital organs of the host is not attacked until the parasitic larva is matured, at which time the host is killed, the parasite leaving the dead host and burrowing into the ground. There it changes into the pupa stage, and after remaining in that stage from five to eight days the adult fly emerges to carry on another life cycle. The family Tachinidae is by far the most beneficial of the order of the Diptera, judging from the stand- point of an agriculturalist. In one instance a great outbreak of army worms in Northern Alabama which was threatening to totally destroy crops, was frustrated by the Tach- inidae flies. Last year an infesta- tion of army worms in West Central and North West Texas was effective- ly checked by the work of these flies which are very abundant in this state. Some idea of the vast importance of this family of parasitic flies to Texas can be imagined from the fact that Mr. Reinhard has collected one hundred and twenty species around College Station, everyone of which as far as is known is a parasite of some species of insect. MEMBERS OF WAR | clothes, at LIU JOE JU JU IR JJ LAE 20 MA Mat 2a United States. 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