The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-12-16


Clear Spring, Washington county. Md |
AosembcI I4ah, ISL.
DEaR SIR:-in The last No. Of tire
Farmer, ] notice remedy for the blark
weesil, by Mr.. Jas. e. Alice, af Carroll
county. which is, 10 Z" wet the walls al the
building infested by weeyil with strong
brine"
This viii doubtless prevent The weeviI
where il already exists from going into /!
barn or garner thus washed with strong
brine bni II will not prevent the egg from
being Matched there.
| believe the egg is deposited in the
grain Of wheat while in the field. and
when hauled into the barn and there heat
cd 10 certain degree is Matched, first ap-
pearing like q small white worm, but soon
changes into the black weeyil.
This opinion is based on the following
faeis-lst. As soon as hauled in my
grain last harvest, thrashed out about
one hundred bushels of Mediterranean
wheat and put il in garner before il had
gone through 4 sweat. In eight or ten
days afterwards went in 10 examine il,
and found il looked well over the top, but
running NV arm dawn discovered il was
very warm, and when ! drew il out my
hand was covered with nour. This |
thought very singular, rs ] saw no weevil
about il. ! went into il and threw il up
with shovel, aud found il below. where
il was heated, TO be full OF small white
worms, some ont of the wheat, others just
with the point of their nose or snont, as
You may please 10 call it. sticking out, and
others | found upon close examination,
had not vet broken the bran. In the
course Of ten DAYS or Two weeks this wheat,
which now had no wcevil i'm il, was lite.
rally alive with them, and the worms had
oil disappeared. In the adjoining garner
there were eight or ten bushels Of The
same kind Of whea. put in near The same
time, but this did not heat on account Of
the smallness of the bulk; no worms APP
peared in this, and il remained uninjured
by the weeyil. &c.,.
Fact. 2d. A ncighbor of mine few
years since cut piece Of wheat very green,
and hanlcd il in before il had dried, but
not wishing to mix il with his other wheat,
he put il in shed attached to his barn.
This heated very much in the straw, and
the weevil destroyed almost the whole of
il. His other wheat which was put away
dry, was unimpaired. S.:
Third lart.--A gentleman but a few
days since stated in MY presence that he
took some wheat that had not weevil in
il, and put il in bag. and set it in his
house wheIe no weeyil could get 10 il, and
We, il filled with weevil.
When ! was hoy, the farmers would
never think of cutting wheat until il was
thoroughly ripe, and then there was very
: little complaint about weevil. Now il is
thought TO be more profitable TO cut il in
the dough state, and some aiming at this
state cut many portions of their fields in
the milk state, and this is frequently re-
. moved away before it is thoroughly dry,
and therefore heats sufficiently 10 hatch
.. the egg which ultimately produces the
weevil.
The remedy then is, never to cut yonl
: wheat until it is ripe: or if cut in the
dough, or milk state, when, of course. the
5 straw is quite green, do not haul it in until
it is thoroughly dry, and lapprehend there
will be no necessity for war OF "exter'
minaiion" against the weevil, for there
will be but few, if any. 10 exiermlnate.
! Preserving Butter.-'fhe farmers III
, the parish of Udney, in the county OF A.
tberdeen, Scotland, practise the following
method of curing their butter, which give:
it great superiority above that Of theil
= neighbors Take two parts of the bes
: common salt, one part of sugar, and one
part of saltpe,re head them up together
and blend the whole completely: take one
ounce of this composition for sixteen oun
) ces of butter; work it well into the mass
Il and close il up for use. The butter curet
e with this mixture appears of a rich AM
: marrowy conscience, and fine color, ant
!, never acquires a brittle hardness, no
tastes salty. DIR. Anderson says" hav,
ate butter cured with the above compost
v zion, that has been kept three years, ant
= it was as sweet as AT first" But it mus
be noted that butter thus cured, requires
!. to stand three weeks or a month before i
!, is begun to be used; if it be sooner open
5 ed, the salts are not sufficiently blondes
S with il; and sometimes the GOODNESS o
), the nitre will then be perceived, which to
tally disappears afterwards. The abov
is worthy the attention Of every dairy wo
man.