Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-08-26
VOL. SO. 26.
IRON rnE AMERICAN rARanr.
wonK ron TnE MONTH.

Peach T'ecs.--Examine your peach trees
o few inches beneath the ground; wherever
you see a hole, stick the point Of our PEN
knife, peice Of wiFe or knitting needle,
therein. and either pick out tho worm or kill
him, Ell up the puncture with mixture Of
equal parts Of soft or hard soap. sulphur and
salt, return the earth and paint the body Of
the tree up TO the branches. with tho mix
ture. diluted, named above. Then SOW d
mixture Of 9 parts ashes. part salt, aud
part saltpeter, under the tree. Halt q gal,
lon Of this last mixture will answer for tree.
44pple Trees IF the bark on your ap-
PIE trees are scabby, rosy or messy. scrap0
eif the dead bark. and paint the bodies with
the soft soap mixture spoken Of for peach
trees iftho bark Is not scabby, stiH paint
tie trunks of your trees
CateYgilars-T These arc often troubles
some on apple aud other fruit trees. Exam
inc yourstrees, and take off all caterpillar
nests, aud burn them. A wire brush liked
at the end Of a long pole, will enable you to
disodge them. We have seen a mop fixed
on a long polo, dipped in spirits Of turpentine,
used for the purpose ofrcmoving the nests.
Orchards -As any decayed fruit may
fall IN your orchard, have them gathered and
given to the hogs. If you cook them they
win be much better
All decaycd or dead limbs should be care
fully sawed off close upto the body Of the
tree. the wound made smooth with drawing
knife, or any other suitable tool, and then
painted over with mixture Of equal parts Of
rosin, turTcafine and Jtesm0a, --or with 4
mixture Of parts fresh COW dung, part
lime part ashes, and ] part salt. The
first mixture to be put on warm.
Collection OF materials for composfs--
Upon every convenient occasion, collect all
proper substances on your farm capable Of
being converted into manure, from them iu-
to compost heaps don't let the size Of your
heaps alarm you the larger they lie. and dc
more Of them, so much the better let them
be as big {. as numerous as they may, your
various crops win tiud plants enough to eat
all Of them up.
There is ne labor on a farm SO well calcr-
lated 10 return usurious profits, as that an
proprated to the collection Of materials for
making manure. With respect to the 'ques-
tion--what win make manure it is very
readily answered--pc peat marsh mud. and
creek mud, ditch scrapings, road scrapings,
the earthfrom fence sides and corners. icares,
goods mould, weeds, grass, sea weeds, ali
animal refuse, rags. scraps of leather and
bones and it may be said that everything
that has had life, is capable through its own
decay. to reproduce life again. The greater
the medley forming the compost neap the mors
valuable will the product be.
The value of snch manure will be greatly
enhanced if the soap suds, urine pot-liquor,
ashes, and other slops, and offals, Of every
kind, either animal or vegetable. made abous
the house aud out houses were daily thrown
on the heaps. 50 as they would sink into the
body Of them Let your fish bones. crab
shells. egg shells, and all the scrapings a.
boat the premises, find the same common re-
ccptacle, and occasionally strew plaster over
the heap