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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1897)
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Question’.—-I intend putting up a nica barn. Am a young farmer just start ing out and would be glad if you would give me a few important points to bo looked after in order to secure a comfort able and convenient barn. Answer.—T he location of your barn is of the first importance. It is easy to make additions and add conveniences, but if the situation is bad the defect can never be remedied. Build on a hill side and you can so arrange as to have second story on a level with the wagon way, which is a great convenience in driving in and out, and in unloading and storing the crops. May also be ar ranged to have a level drive way, which adds greatly to the expedition and ease with which the feeding, the handling of the manure and other operations may be carried on. The situation should also bo selected with a view to conven ience; that is, within easy access from the fields and also the dwelling, without being too near the latter. While good drainage, to prevent dampness or stand ing water, is important, it is equally important to prevent washing. Two often we see the rich, dark streams from our barnyards borne off to the nearest watercourse, to be swept beyond our reach, when a little care and fore thought would enable us to preserve and add these wasted but precious ele ments to our hard run fields. If possi ble the barn should be protected from the cold north winds, although, at the south, this is not a matter of so much moment as in the colder regions of higher latitudes. Having determined on these main points, examine different plans and settle on that which suits you best, allowing for ample room, and also having an eye to an attractive and in viting appearance, to which a little whitewash adds a wonderful per cent.— State Agricultural Department. Worms Iu Reaches. Question. —I have four clear-stone peach trees; they were well fruited. The fruit should ripen from July 1 to 10. The peaches have all fallen off before ripening, and every peach has from one to four worms in it. What are they, and how can I prevent them? Answer. —The insect that has ruined your peaches is the “Curculio,” which is a small, brownish beetle, and attacks indiscriminately all the stone fruits. This beetle lays its eggs just under the skin of the peach, and in four to eight days the egg hatches out a soft, footless grub with a horny head, which com mences to eat its way at once to the center of the peach. It will remain from three to five weeks in the peach, when the injured fruit usually falls to the ground, and the grub then burrows from 4 to 6 inches in the earth, where, after remaining about three weeks, it becomes a beetle, and issues forth to again begin its destructive round. As a rule, the fruit containing this grub falls to the ground before maturity, though this is not always the case. It requires constant care to get rid of this pest. They have a habit, when alarmed, of folding their legs close to the body and dropping to the ground, there re maining motionless as though dead. By taking advantage of this habit many oan be destroyed by giving the tree a sudden blow and catching the beetles in a sheet spread for the purpose, then burning or mashing them to death. Re peat this frequently. Where possible it is also well to let hogs and poultry have the ruu of the orchard, as they de stroy most of the grubs before they bury themselves in the ground. Spraying is also recommended, with a very weak solution of Paris green, say 1 pound to 400 gallons of water, to which add sev eral gallons of lime water. The foliage of the peach is very easily injured, and I would suggest the other remedies us the surest and least dangerous.—State Agricultural Department. Muck For Cotton. Question,— Would it be a good plan to open a deep furrow, put muck and leaves in and cover it with another fur row, and then in the spring bed on it and plant cotton? What kind of ferti lizer shall I use for poor, sandy land where cotton fires badly? Answer. —It would not be advisable to use the muck as you suggest. For mentation of the muck is necessary to make its ingredients available us plant food. To get the best results you faust compost it with stable manure, which would result in a fermentation which would bring inert materials into avail able forms and improve the mechanical condition of both the muck and the stable manure. One load of manure t; three loads of muck, of good quality will make a compost which some »u thorities contend is as good, loa l f<> load, as manure. Now you can cithe use this compost as you would lot man ure, or if you wish a stronger fertilise add 500 pounds of acid phosphate uu 60 pounds of muriate of potash to eay- 1.450 poouds of the compost. 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