Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 12 · column 5 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
By MASON HUTCHESON
Virginia Extension Service
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
The Chinese chestnuts recently had a heavy bloom.
“Every year I say I’m going to start early to control the worms that get in the chestnuts near harvest time” is an often heard comment.
“It looks like the garden will fail due to dry weather, but maybe we can have some chestnuts. How can I keep those white worms from getting in them?” has been asked a few times during the past week.
Chestnut weevils are 3/16-inch long snout beetles that destroy the eating quality of chestnuts.
Females lay their eggs when nut “burrs” are about fully grown. They use their long snouts to make holes for the egss in the small nuts that are forming.
Egg laying occurs from August through September. The grub or larval (white worm) stage feeds in the nut for six to eight weeks.
Mature grubs left the nuts during harvest time last year and have entered the soil to pupate at a depth of 3 to 6 inches.
About 80 percent of the grubs pupate during the late summer, emerge from the soil as adult weevils in August and begin egg laying
94.9%