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BORERS OM PEACH TREES,
Rest T.m < and Bcthi-d For <■ Ming
Itid of 1 li.s Pent.
Question —When is the best time to
take borers from peach trees? Can vott
suggest a wash that will prevent them?
Answer—T he borer is a well known
snerny to the peach tree, and it has
long since been given up that the best
remedy is to get down on your knees
and dig it out with a knife or wire.
This work should be done in the fall of
the year as soon as the tree is ripened
up for the winter, and repeated iu the
spring by the time vegetation sets iu.
Sufficient earth should be removed from
the base of the tree to allow one to get
well down and reach all of the borers.
Au ordinary heavy pocketknifn is a
good instrument for this work, The
base of the tree down to the roots
should be well scooped with a trowel,
that every tunnel of the borers may bo
discovered. These tunnels should be
followed untii tiie larvae are found and
killed.
The spring going-over is to got the
borers that may have escaped the fail
treatment. On warm days during
spring and winter, these worms are ac¬
tive. and as a result, gum is exuded
from the tree, which serves to detect
their presence, After the work has
been finished in the spring, it is a good
practice to bank the earth up around
the trunk of the tree to the height of
about 10 or 12 inches, to be left until
fall.
Very few if any washes applied to
the tree have given very satisfactory
results. Various solutions and mixtures
have been tried, in spite of all of which
the borers find their way into the trees
to a considerable extent. Conclusive
results have been obtained, however,
showing that some preparations will
prevent a Largo per cent of these insects
from gaining entrance to the trees.
Below is given the formula for about
the best preparation for this purpose.
P. J, Berckmaus’ company of Augusta
have used it with gratifying results.
WASH TO PREVENT BOltEUS.
Potash (caustic) ........ .. 2 pounds
Crude carl) die acid 1 gallon
Whale oil snap (dissolved
in liot water.).......... .. 9 pounds
Lime...................... N bushel
Water added to make 50 gallons of
mixture.
To give the mixture the proper con¬
sistency, aud to color it, two pounds of
finely ground tobacco dust should be
added and well stirred in. The tobacco,
however, is not absolutely necessary.
Remove a little of the earth from the
base of the tree and apply the mixture
to the trunk from the limbs down well
arouud the collar with a paint brush or
cloth mop. The first application should
be made April 1, aud if it does not stick
well, a second application should be
made the middle of Juno. This mix¬
ture is not only a protection against i
borers but is a remedy for scale insects.
—State Entomologist.
HOW TO AVOID POOR LIGHTS.
Oil Not Alwiiyn to IS I >i in i— Directions
1 or Cure of L.unin.
Many of o .r people are strongly of
the opinion that au oil that falls below
the limits prescribed by law is a poor
oil, in the sense that it will not give a
good light. This is incorrect; an unsafe
oil need not necessarily be a poor iliu
iiiiuant, aud generally is not. Many
have a poor light because of lack of care
and attention to their lamps and wicks.
The following points should be care
fuly heeded by those who would get
the best results from their lamps:
1. Use a good wick, the open woven
wick, known as the “American wick,”
is excellent. Do not use too long a
wick; cut it only a few inches longer
than is necessary to reach tho bottom
of the lamp. Do not have a great coil
of wick in the lamp.
2. In adjusting a now wick, fit it to
the burner, soak the wick in oil, light
the wick, let the lamp burn a few min¬
utes, then blow it out and trim your
wick by moving the finger over the
charred part evenly and smoothly in
one direction onlif. Repeat until the
surface feels smooth aud even; this is
always the best plan to pursue in trim
iniug the wick. Do not use the shears,
uuless perhaps to cut off long aud un
even threads at the start. Al\\a>s trim
the wick in this way aftor each night’s
use.
3. Remember that dirt will get into
the oil, little particles that perhaps you
cau not see, aud this floating dirt will
gradually accumulate iu the wick which
acts as a Alter to hold back the dirt as
the oil ascends the wick. After a time
this dirt chokes up the pores or inter
stices in the wick, and partially de
stroys its power of capillarity. Then
lioht to fail because the oil
on wicks; they are much cheaper than
eyesight. Put in a new one when
needed. Don’t pin or sew a piece of
cloth, stocking or red flannel on the end
of your wick to eke out its existence.
und at the same time expect to get good
light.
4 Remember that occasonallv. sav
once in 10 days, or whenever needed,
the dirty, dreggy oil in the bottom
should be thrown out. It may be saved.
if desired, by filtering it through a fine
piece of cortou cloth, Then rinse out
the ]. inip wull some c i ear bright oil.
Dcm > t c ; 0an inside of your lamp
with water; if you do your lamp will
p ro hably give a poor light when you
next use it, sputter aud give you
trouble.
5. Occasionally, say once in 10 days,
or when you see it is needed, give tne
burner a thorough cleaning. Boil it
with hot water aud soda so as to get
out all greasy dirt, and open up the air
passages. Then dry it thoroughly in
the sun or over the stove before using.
G. Don’t buy red oil; it never gives as
good a light as the same quantity of oil
wlth()ut the red eolorillg mat ter.
If you attend carefully to all these
rules and still get poor light, you may
abuse the oil companies, but not before.
In all the cases of poor light and bad
oil 1 have so far investigated the trouble
must have been due to neglect of some
of the above simple precautions, which
ought to be adopted in every well regu¬
lated household. Remember that the
state will see to it that no unsafe oil is
furnished you, and because a lamp
gives a poor light it is no evidence that
the oil is unsafe. In the recent oil in¬
vestigation I examined some oils which
were undoubtedly unsafe and below the
law, but yet when I burned them day
after day in a properly cared for lamp,
no fault could bo found with the light
they gave. John M. McOanoless,
State Chemist.
PLANT OATS NEXT SEASON,
Injury to (d>i-n l>y Drouth MakfS This
Step Advisable.
The necessity of small grain for feed
crop constrains me to urge the farmers
to plant oats for another season, as the
drouth has cut off our corn crop consid¬
erably this year. Our severe winters
have killed most of the oat crop for the
last three years, but this is largely on
account of late fall planting and poor
preparation of lands sown in this cereal.
Experience has taught that oats sown
tho last of August and until the last of
September not only yield a heavier
grain but also give the plants a better
growth and its roots extend longer and
become sturdier in the ground, which
of course make the plant hardier and
less liable to bo killed by freezes.
My plan is to sow oats on corn land
as soon as the corn can be gathered.
After the fodd&r is pulled aud the shuck
ripens theu cut the cornstalks down
with ear on Btalks and shock it. The
corn ripens in these shocks nicely and
can be polled off stalks at some future
time and the stalks are theu ready
shreader.
Thoroughly break tins land with turn¬
ing ploigs, and after this plowing, sow
broadcast 30 or 40 bushels of cottonseed
j Wr acr0i or if you have not enough cot
ton seed then sow broadcast 300 to 400
pounds of acid phosphate with potash
per acr0 , the formulas being 8 per cent
Q f phosphoric acid and 4 per cent of
potash. Then sow two to three bushels
0 f p 3r a c*e (according to the fertil
jt y 0 f the laatd) aud harrow them in
thoroughly with a good disc harrow, or
plowing with scooter or ripper plows so
aa no t to plow in the manure or the
gralu too deep. Then roll land so as to
level the land vntk a 3-horse roller and
continue to roll the grain crop when the
freezes come during the winter so as to
pac k the ground wound the roots aud
protect the grain from the heavy spew
inj? Evory f aruwr should have a roller,
(aud they i can be easily and cheaply
) know of no implement that
gives more value in return for the
mouey thail a roller properly used
on a gram crop. Try it ami you will be
pleased with results.
Under this connection it might be
well to add that ^ gniall gralIl should
not ^ put in the ground too deep,
neither should the manurial elements,
as the roots follow the manure and
when the freeze comes it breaks the
deeper root8 aad the grain is injured.
W hat we desire is to procure the largest
amount of lateral roots which helps
hold the upper surface of the laud to
gather and thus protect the grain from
the spews.—State Agricultural Depart
ineut.
t.-uri»»g 1-envine rt«y.
Question — Please give mo your
method of curing peavine hay.
Answer 1 lie \ines shou.d be cu, as
SGGn the pods begin to ripen and al
lowed to remain over from two to six
ta.ve no-« your nay folk ana put r- jour vine*
into cocks about three leet high; the
vines should bo allowed to remain, if
possible. through the second day. Then
use your hay folk aud place the vines
oil stacks 12 or 14 feet high, or just high
enough tor the fork to reach the top or
the po.e. The no.e shou.d be sharpened
and the hay should be stacked about 10
feet high. Abetter plan would be to
have ho es bored into the stack^polei
aud drive pms in, so the air would have
tree access However, the hav would
cure very nice.}' iu dry weather with¬
out this t recaurion. After the hay
has cured about five or six days, ac¬
cording to the state ol* the weather,
your hay will be ready for the barn.
The Unknown pea, the Clay pea and
the Black pea are probably the bast j
varieties. You can obtain any of these
varieties from a reliable wholesale mer¬
chant, either in Atlanta, Macon or Au¬
gusta. Mark W. Johnson of Atlanta
I am satisfied could furnish you.
From three pecks to one bushel and a
half of tho peas should be sown to tho
acre, according to the ferciiity of the
soil. The plan of broadcasting them in
your corn, when you lay by, is used by
many good farmers. If you do not get
much hay aud peas, your laud will be
greatly improved, which is one of the
chief advantages to be derived by sow¬
ing your land in peas. If you wish to i
enrich your soil, the Whippoorwill va¬
riety is probably the best for this use.
Three pecks to the acre will be suffi¬
cient to plant in your corn when you
lay by. Now, as to whether your
corn would be injured by the peas or ]
not, I do uot believe the injury would
be sufficient to overcome the great ben¬
efit the pea crop would be to the laud.
—State Agricultural Department.
Forage Plant.
Question —Please tell me what, in
your opinion, would be a good forage
plant tor spring pasturing and hay.
Answer—F or a good forage plant
and for spring pasturing and hay, I
would recommend the Hairy Vetch
(Vieia Villosa)
This plant is a native of Europe, but
has been grown as a forage crop in the
United States for a long time, aud has
proved very satisfactory. It is espe¬
cially adapted to the southern climate,
and is able to withstand the drouth and
extremely hot weather. It should be
sowed either broadcast or in drills from
Sept. 1 to Sept. 15, and if you have
a favorable season for about six
weeks, it will take a good start and
grow through the winter, famishing
winter and early spring pasture. It
should be cut for fodder when the pods
are about half matured. If properly |
cured, it makes good hay, and can be
handled like cow peas. The seed is
quite expensive, costing about $4 00 per ;
bushel. It is also similar to the cow
pea as a soil renovator.—State Agricult¬
ural Department.
Cornstalk Borers.
Question —Our corn crop is being
rained by a worm, samples of which I
semi you. What is it aud what is the
remedy?
Answer —Upon examining the stalks
I found several worms boring in them.
which proved to be the larger cornstalk
*orer {Diair x a saccharaltis). This in¬
sect is quite well distributed over the
southern states and sometimes becomes
quire troublesome, It also attacks
sugar cane, sorghum and gama grass.
There are two generations, and the last
one passes the winter in the old corn¬
stalks. No remedy can be applied to
the growing crop to step their ravages,
bus they cau be prevented from damag¬
ing: the crops in succeeding years. Af¬
ter the crop is gathered in the fall, all
the- old cornstalks should be dragged off,
collected aud burned to destroy the
ovw wintering brood. Also a system
of rotation of crops should be adapted.
Corn following corn on the sam- g >und
can reasonably be expected to dam¬
aged by these worms. If these prevent¬
ative measures are followed the farmers
aeed not suffer from this pest.—State
Entomologist, Agricultural Department.
THE TEXAS COTTON CROP.
Leading Hanker Brazos \ alii Says
It Will He Very Short.
Galveston. Aug. 29. — Ex-Congress
maM D G Giddings of Brenham was
here yesterday. He is one of the lead
iug hankers of the Brazos valley and is
j n a position to know as much about
cr0 p conditions in that section as per
haps any man in the state. When in
terrogated on the cotton prospects in
Washington county, Colonel Giddings
replied: “Conditions ^ bad Cot
are very now.
£ £ &
U pj a nd cotton is already dead, stalks
am i a ll I never before saw so much
dead cotton. We estimate that of. the
the drouth has killed 2d per cent more
of this upland cotton. The scour of tht
flood left the roots bare. At least one
?, p:aud cottoQ is lost be - voad
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Straw Hats at cost.
Shoes, 75 cents up.
Mackintoshes, $1.50.
Hats at and below cost. :
Gents’ Pants, 50 cents up. i
Good Standard Tobacco, 3 lbs, $L *
Good smoking Tobacco, 25c a lb.
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