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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, JULY 16, 1882. Scotch snuff to the green worm without the slightest effect upon the little vandals. The only remedies we have found effectual are salt and hand-picking. A solution of cobalt will destroy them, but we do not like to re commend poison of any kind to be used on plants that are used as human food. Py- rethrum is said to be perfectly innoxious to human beings, but we would rather use it on cotton than cabbage. It is proper that we should state that the saltor brine must be used with the greatest care to prevent injury to the plants. The first time we used salt we destroyed almost as many cabbages as the worms, by too heavy an application. Hot water will kill the worms, but it is a nice question to know ex actly the temperature that will kill the worm without destroying the cabbage. We have, after resorting to all sorts of remedies for the worm, come to the deliberate con clusion that band-picking is really the only reliable remedy, for either the worm, or the Harlequin, Lincoln, or terrapin bug. If our inquirer has a fish pond containing perch or brim, and is blessed with small children, the latter will derive endless amusement from catching the worms to feed the fish. The down which envelops the worms causes them to float on the surface from which the fish take them, to the infinite amusement of the children. If the Harlequin bugs are caught when they first appear and destroyed, they can be managed. We have always succeeded In managing the Harlequin by destroying the first crop that makes its appearance in the spring. If this crop is allowed to mature and propagate its species, they soon become so numerous as to be uncontrollable. J. S. N. ^tack §fje#nrtment. t Camp's Creamery. The fame of the Scrub Dairy Farm at Col orado Kanch, near Covington, Gu., is at tracting general attention to the subject of the improvement of our common" scrub cat tle. The editor of the Southern World not long since paid a visit to the ranch and in spected the cows and farm. At the outset we were struck with the practical economy of Mr. Camp and wife, in the management of the farm. He and his family do all the work, and every thing is done in a system atic manner—there is no waste. Mr. Camp uses no meats in his family, and a healthier family we have never seen. Mr. Camp has about fifty acres in his farm, lying on both sides of Dried Indian Creek. The bottom land is rich, and put in clover, (as it will be this fall), will yield him an enormous quantity of hay. He grazes his cattle alternately on three meadows, and makes all the hay on his place. He feeds them liberally in winter, but not so much in summer. He manages, with the aid of improved machinery, to do a great deal of work, and do it thoroughly. Mr. Camp has ten cows. One is part Brah min and one a half Jersey—the balance are common scrubs. The highest price he paid was for the half Jersey cow, “Spot,” $25; he has been offered $200 for her and refused it. A scrub that he paid $15 for, gives three gal lons of milk per day; the half Jersey four gallons per day. The cows average six quarts per day as a whole. He obtains sixteen gallons per day, which is placed in a creamer inside his dwelling. The creamer resembles a common refrigera tor in appearance. Two large cans are filled with the milk and let stand in the top of the creanier from twenty-four to thirty-six hours. The cans are immersed in wuter, which is changed twice per day. The water is close at hand, the well on the outside of the house being connected with a pump on the inside, which forces the water into the creamer. Pipes at the bottom of the cans let off the water when needed, and other pipes allow the milk to be drawn off leaving the cream intact in the cans. The cream is kept cool and soft, and when ready, is placed In one of Stoddard’s barrel churns of forty-five gallon capacity. It is claimed that this is the only churn that will give granulated bntter. One thing can be said of it, and that is, that it does its work well. A dog-power connects the churn with a tread-mill, which is operated by the “Duke of Ingomar,” a Jersey bull calf three months old. At first he don’t take much to the work, but when he gets down to it he does his work well. The churn revolves on pivots end over end, without dasher or ped dle. In less than one hour twenty gallons of cream isconverted into twenty-five pounds of crystaliced golden globules of sweet and pure butter. The milk is drawn off out of the churn, the salt added, and a few vibra tions of the churn thoroughly incorporates the salt with the butter. It is now taken up and let stand in the creamer for several hours, then placed in the butter-worker, where, after It is thoroughly worked it Is placed in glass jars holding two pounds. Mr. Camp is not an opponent of thorough bred cattle, but looks at matters in a practi cal manner. There are few able to pay the high prices demanded for blooded stock. The large majority must be content to hold their scrubs. Hence, he believes it to be the duty of the masses to give their scrubs the same treatment given to the blooded stock, and their reward will be rich returns on the investment. He holds that by this course, in a few years, the stock can be graded up throughout the State at lesss expense and with surer returns. Everybody cannot at once secure thoroughbred stock; the short est way is to introduce them gradually by grading up. In the meantime the better treatment of the scrubs, secures better na tive cows to grade on. His dairy nets him $80 per month. His ten cows cost him say $250. At this rate they pay for themselves in one year and give a large per centage of clear profit. Suppose he had purchased ten Jersey cows at an average of $100 each— $1,000. The returns in milk and butter would have paid for themselves and the profit would be in the prices paid for the calves. Suppose disease should seize upon the herd the loss will be four times greater in the last case than in the first Mr. Camp's idea is there is less risk of loss in the scrubs than with the thoroughbreds. Mr. Camp has two hundred mulberry trees growingon his place and intends going into silk culture. In addition to this he is projecting a wind-mill to supply water for his farm, and for a mill to grind feed for his stock. He is a man of untiring energy and goes at work with a “vim” that means suc cess. He is ably seconded by his wife, who manages the household with skill and consummate ability. His son Eugene, who is contesting for the prize offered to the boys under sixteen by the editor of the Southern World, is a "chip off the old block.” How Do You Mnnage Your Calves? Editor Southern World—This question is almost dally asked me, and in reply to all, will now, through the Southern World give a full, short and concise reply, that any one with reasonable intelligence, can see at a glance, that this way, os has been practiced for more than half a century by the most experienced dairymen in the North and all over civilized Europe, is the best. If a calf is worth raising at all, do it right, and you make a more valuable animal. The old way of allowing the calf to suck its mother, (say that the cow gives three gallons of milk pur day), the calf gets a third, or one gallon per day, and. that is the best or last of the milk. This three gallons would make one pound of butter that will sell for, say twenty-five cents. The calf gets one- third of the milk and the best or cream of the milk, and you only get one-half pound of butter per day. Say the cow gives this for ten months, and the calf gets twelve and a half cents worth of your butter dally for that time, he has cost you just $37.50, and is worth to the butcher, just $3.50, or a clear loss of $34 on the calf. Now, raise the calf by hand and give him nil the skimmed milk that he will drink for four months—say two gallons per day at five cents per gallon, or ten cents per day for 120 days is $12, after that it will live off of the grass, and is as large at four months, as the calf that sucked its mother at twelve months. If the twelve months calf was worth $3.50, the four months is worth $5, because it is v^al, loss of $7 upon this calf, but you made $37.50 more butter by raising of it upon skimmed milk, and a clear gain of $30.50 by the new way. Well how do you do it? When the cow drops the calf, allow it to stay with her from three to nine hours and fill its belly full from the cow one time. When perfectly dry and lull, drive the cow away, and then remove the calf to a dis tance, bo that neither cow or calf will hear each other; place the calf in a moderately dark room and let it remain for twenty-four hours, in this time it is huugry; then milk the cow and take the bucket of milk to the calf; have a place fixed, so that the bucket can be set in it and cannot be turned over; put the calf’s head between yonr knees, put two of your fingers in the milk, place them in the calf’s mouth and when he begins to suck, push its head down into the bucket with the other hand. At the third time of feeding wfthdraw your fingers from the mouth, and in five or six times feeding you will have the calf so that it will drink the milk from the bucket without any of your assistance. When the calf is a week old then take one tablespoonful of corn meal and add one quart of boiling water—make a gruel as you would for a sick person, to this add enough skimmed milk to cool down to milk-warm, feed upon this till the calf is two months old, then add to the skimmed milk enough of hot water to make it milk- warm for the calf till four months old; give it all that it will drink twice a day, from the beginning to the end ; at a week old let it run in the pasture in day time, in summer and fall; in the winter and spring feed upon bran, cotton seed, cut hay, etc. Covington, Oa. W. J. Camp. Value of flood Butter Cows. In the excellent work, “ How to Select Cows: or tho Guenon System Simplified, Explained and Practically Applied,” by Willis P. Hazard, we find the following re marks upon the value of good butter cows. “An ordinary cow will make about 200 pounds of butter a year. The tables below are intended to show what the difference is in the value of different cows for producing butter, taking as a basis the payment of $30 for a cow that will make 200 pounds of but ter per annum, and for different amounts up to 000 pounds per annum, assuming that the cow will die at 12 years of age. The in terest upon the first cost of the cow, and on her product is compounded at the rate of six per cent, per annum up to the day it is assumed the cow will die, taking no account of the value of the stock bred from her. As long as every business is done upon the basis of interest on investments, we must treat the question of values as applied to cows on that basis. This is the only way to accurately prove the difference in value be tween one cow and another. TABLE A. It the cow costs $30, the keeping per annum $35 and tho butter sells (or 35 cents per pound, the profits on the cows will be as follows: I*aylng$l0(ora30U pd. cow, he'll get in 10 y’rs $170.00 “ 180.07 (or a 300 pd. cow, he'll get In 10 years $335.08 “ 348.86 (or a 400 pd. cow, he’ll get In 10 years $300.88 “ 501.39 (or a 500 pd. cow, he’ll get In 10 years $383.11 " H71.01 (or a 000 pil. cow, he’ll get In 10 years $138.30 TABLE B. Including Interest on all Items, a farmer will make ou each cow os follows, (made on a basis o( 35 cents a pound (or butter and $35 per year (or keeping), via Paying $30 for a 300 j>d. cow, he’ll get In 10 years $185.7: “ $135 (or a 300 pd. cow, he'll get In 10 years $313.18 *' $250 (or a 400 pd. cow, he'll get in 10years$374.15 “ $350 (or a 500 pd. cow, he'll get In 10 years $474.53 “ $450 (or a 800 pd. cow, he’ll get in 10 years $585.01 table c. Beckoning the annual cost of keeping at $35, and butter at 30 cents per pound, reckoning Interest on her cost and on all receipts from her, a farmer will make on euch cow ns follows: Paylng$30(ora3U0pd. cow, he'll get In 10 years $183.87 “ $135 (or a 300 pd. cow, he'll get In 10 years $354.78 " $250 (or a 400 pd. cow, he'll got In 10 years $183.48 " $350 (ora 500 pd. cow, he'll get In 10 years $654.17 " $150 for a 600 pd. cow, he’ll get In 10 years $811.50 table d. On an annual cost of keeping at $50, and price of butter at 35 cents per pound: Paying $30 (or a 200 pd. cow, he’ll get Id 10 years $06.78 “ $135 (or a 300 pd. cow, he'll get In 10 yean $318.38 “ $350 (or a 400 pd. cow, he’ll get In 10 yean $807.48 " $350 (or a 500 pd. cow, he'll get In 10 yean $744.20 " $150 (or a6U0 pd. cow, he’ll get In 10 yean $880.00 It is not claimed for any of these tables that they show absolutely the value of any cow to the farmer, but only that they are relatively correct. In corroboration of the estimated yleldi of butter in the table, the writer quota the following: Jersey Belle, of Scituate, of the Victor family, made 705 pounds of butter in 12 consecutive months; Eurota, of the Alpliia family, made 778 pounds of butter between; Nov. 12,1879 and October 15,1880, and dropped a heifer calf on Nov. 14,1880; Pansey, made 574 pounds in one year; Im ported Flora made 511 pounds of butter in SOweelu; Countess, when fourteen years old. mado on gross alone, 16 pounds of butter. table e. Value of Progeny 200 pound Butter herd 33 Onci, Heifers and their products 10 yean $15,354.04 Product of second generation. 4,567.54 Product ot third generation 1,066.92 Product of fourth generation 104.08 Product of fifth generation 24.00 Total $21,228.58 Value or progeny on each 200 p<l. cow $863.33, Value at Progeny impound Butter herd* 33 Ones. Heifers and their products In 10 years $63,138.73 Product ot second generation 18,036.34 Product ot third generation....- 5$38.58 Product ot fourth generation 1,206.10 Product of fifth generation - 186.00 Total.$70,984.63 Valueot progeny on each 300 pound cow, $2,406.77. Balrylag In (he South. Editor Southern World.—The produc tion of butter in the United States for last year was about 400,000,000 pounds, and the demand for the best grades five times as much as the supply. Now with the superior advantages of the South and especially of Georgia, there is no reason why the produc tion shall not be doubled in the next five years, or rather the production of butter for the year 1887 should be not 1,000,000,000 pounds. The states of Georgia. Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and the two Carolina’s in that time should produce 250,000,000 an nually after the first five years. Thorc are various reasons why the South will ulti mately be the greatest producer of extra fine butter. But the most important to my mind is the fact of onr climate. Scarcely one winter in five will we have to feed over three months in the twelve. With proper management with the grasses we can raise two tons of hay where they raise one at tho north, or in plain words, there is not an acre of land in the states mentioned above, but that will furnish two cuttings of hay annually, while it is a rare occurrence north of 36° 30’, that more than one crop can be harvested and their extreme cold winters deter them from dairying at that season; when in fact, the proper time and the most profitable season for dairying and butter making at the South, is from the first of Oc. tober till the first of June, (the better we feed the better the pay), and if we pay at tention to our stock and breed only at the season that we desire, we can make creamy butter fresh for the markets. When the summer’s product at the north will be in competition with us, reason shows us at a glance that the time for our dairy cows to be dry is in July, August and September, when our pastures are at their best; when the cow is the must restless, and the flies and insects are the most troublesome. Butter always commands higher prices from October till May than any other time. I have written this that now while the farmers (or should be) are laying plans for another season may arrange for the founda tion of their future dairying interest. We do not expect for every one, or even one in I en, of the agriculturists to engage in dai ry ing to any extent immediately—but, in less than ten years dairying will rank first in the South, while cotton will take a third or fourth rate. When the cotton planters go to grass and butter raising in true earnest, that year cot ton will enhance in value twenty per cent, over present prices. If one-half of the present cotton lands could be put into grasses for food crops for beef and butter making, the other half of the cotton acreage properly handled would make a two-third crop and the money value would be near the same as the present We of Georgia do not know our own cap abilities or the capabilities of our soil and climate. There has been enough experi ments made to show that ho who goes to raising mutton, beef and butter is not wan dering upon a trackless prairie, but has the paths blazed for him and that he will ulti mately drive his produce to a higher priced market where he need fear no competition, for we are capable of producing of the bent that will be upon the market. W». J. Camp. Covington, Ga. Near Raleigh, N. C., are Kittreli Vineyards of the North Carolina Wine Company, in the hands of Messrs. 8. R. Hunt & Co., with A. C. Cook as manager. The vineyard con tains 113 acres, 40 of which are planted With Scuppernong vines. The best of the wines made there are the sweet, white or red Scup- pernong, angelica, claret, sparkling Catawba, and light dry wines. The Kittreli Company are to extend their business, and are negoti ating with the Selby vineyards in Cleveland county, of 50 acres. The acuppernong is a delicious wine to those Who liko a sweet ar ticle, and as it is known to be perfectly pure and strengthening, is often prescribed by physicians. It commends itself strongly to ladies. With other American wines, par ticularly those of California, New Jersey, Virginia and the Cook wines of St, Louis, it is sold at the American stores in this city. —Durham Recorder. N. C. The general manager of the Richmond and Danville Railroad announces through a cir cular that a general illustrative exhibit of the resources ot the Piedmont section will be made at the New England Manufacturers’ and Mechanics’ Institute in Boston next September. All owners of mineral lands and mines, timber lands, manufacturing es tablishments and water powers in the re gion embraced in the Richmond and Dan ville system of railroads are invited to avail themselves of the benefit of this exhibit. All persons desiring information and to make contributions of materials and spec imens are requested to correspond with Capt. 0. C. McPhall, Boston, Mass. Men make laws, women make manners.