Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1847-05-08


beng housed in the shuck or husk. /
have known ii TO be thus kept through the
third year, and much more free from injury
than shucked corn IN in August, and even
the July succeeding the gathering. But
this mode requires much more house room
and much additional labor, If adopted for
the whole crop, prior that portion designed
for sale stiIl, sill required for bread at
home, after the beginning Of summer, may
be well and ought 70 be kept In the shuck.
The reason Of exemption from the weevil
Is obvious. The few lava which may be
in the corn, when housed In autumn, perish,
because they are not able to escape from
the compact bulk and the same compact.
ness prevent the access If laying moths
approaching from other places. The grains
exposed by the opening Of the shuck, and
those only of cars Ut the outside Of the bulk,
are all that can be reached or suffer from
the weeyils at all.
Q. Il, instead Of keeping the corn in the
ear, and shucked, as usual, until wanted
for food or market, it were shelled in May,
or before the coming out Of the first sum.
mer broods Of weevils, and kept In bins,
or in bulk, there would be very little da.
mage from all the succeeding generations.
The first few moths would perish by con.
hnement, except those produced in grains
then ON the surface Of the bulk and nee
others could deposit otherwise than on the
surface Of the grains. II IL obvious TINT
every change Of the surface exposes TO
such injury a new layer or grain before d
touched; and, if left undisturbed, the sur.
face ~grainswill serve to shield all below
them. When the corn is about TO be sold.
the wseFil-eaten surface Of the bulk may
mostly be separated by strong tanning, or
a previous raking off ofall the surface corn,
which may be reserved for stock feeding.
3. Wheat ri soon as reaped, and per.
haps sooner, ID supplied from the granaries
with u greater or less number of parent
weevils 10 lay tho earliest brood and ifit
remain in the straw until September, and
when threshed, is left in small bulk, or Of.
ten stirred, nearly all the grains may be
weevil.eaten; but if wheat be threshed
and ~well-anned early in July, in this re
gion, there will be no weeyils worthy Of
notice. The eggs, previously layed, pro-
badly do not exist on the grains, but or
the chaf or shuck, in which they are en-.
closed, and in Matching, the maggots must
perish for want of food. Az in the case
with corn, the bulk of clean wheat is not
exposed to subsequent laying except on
the grains at the surface Of the bulk. Even
ifthe eggs had previously been attached to,
and had remained with, the grains instead
Of the chat, as infer to be the case, and
then Matched in the interior Of the bulk, the
weeyils could not escape from such close
confinement, but would die without in
crease.
Seed wheat Is usually kept spread out at
least ten inches thick, in order to avoid
any possible heating from remaining mois.
ture, and by some farmers is frequently STIR
red, both Of which conditions offer a grea-
ter opportunity for the d~epredations Of thsse
insects. Notwithstanding this it il rare
that they become numerous.
A. The bulking of early-threshed wheat,
without separating the chat, is also said to
be sufficient protection from the weeyiI.
OF this mode | have no experience. Its
efficacy must depend not on the removal Of
the eggs, but on the sitting Of the mag
gots, and the inability of either the maggots
or moths to move in so close a mass.
EDMUND RuFFIN.
Marlbourne, Va, November, 1916.
SWELLING or GRAIN BY BOILING
Ihe Edlnburg Journal OF Agriculture
gives, in the following table, the increase
ofbulk In different kinds Of grain boiled
for domestic animals to bursting:
4 measures ofoats increased to 4 measures.
4 " barley increased to 10 measures.
4 !" b~nckwheat increased to 1~4measures
4 " Indian corn " 10
4 wheat 10
4 !" rye Is
4 beans 81
A good farmer Of our acquaintance said
hat from long experience he considered
the value Of corn for hogs increased by
boiling in the ratio Of % to l0.-ABany
CuItiUator.
MAKING BuTrGR.-Mr. WIN. Merri-
field, Of Cumberland, who received q pre-
MUM for butter from the New York State
Agricultural Society, in 1872, adopts the
following mode for making butter: In
winter, the milk stands in the cellar twelve
hours; is then scalded over q slow fire 10