Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-07-31
a GRICULTURAL.
Work for the Month.


trees few inches beneath the ground !;
wherever you see hole, stick the pint OF
your pen-knifc. piece of wirc,or knitting
needle, therein, and either pick out the
worm or kill him, FIJI 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 the mixture, diluted named
above. Then sew mixture 6 parts ashes,
part salt, and part saltpctre, under the
tree. Half a gallon Of this last mixture
will answer for tree.
Apple Trees-Ifthe bark on your apple
trees are scabby, rossy or messy, scrape
off the dead bark, and paint the bodies with
the soft soap mixture spoken of for peach
trees; If the bark is not scabby, still paint
the trunks of your trees.
CatypiVays.-Thesc are often trouble
some on apple and other fruit trees. Elk
anime your ees,and take off all caterpillar
nests, and burn them. A wire brush, fixed
at the end of a long pole, will enable you
to dislodge them. We have seen a mop
fixed on long pole, dipped in spirits of
turpentinc, used for the purpose Of remov-
ing the nests.
Pear, Plum and Charytrees.-Whenever
you find blighted limb on either Of these,
cut it of into the sound wound, and burn
the part or parts cut off.
These trees, as well as apricots, may be
budded this month, after the goth.
Oychards-As any decayed fruit may
fall in your orchard, have them gathered
and given to the hogs. If you cook them,
shey will be much better.
All decayed or dead limbs should be
carefully sawed off close up to the body OF
the tree, the wound made smooth with a
drawing knife, or any other suitable tool,
and then painted over with a mixture of
equal parts Of rosia, tarpentine and bees
mar,-or with mixture OF parts fresh
cow-dung, par, lime, part ashes, and l
part salt. The first mixture to be put on
warm.
Collection Of materials for composts.-
Upon every convenient occasion, collect
all proper substances on your farm capa-
bic Of being converted into manure form
them into compost heaps,-don't let the
size of your heaps alarm you; the larger
they be, and the more Of them, so much
the better lei them be as big, as numer-
Gus as they may, your various crops will
find plants enough to eat all of them up.
There is no labor on farm so well cal
culated to return usurious profits, as that
appropriate TO the collection of materials
for making manure. With respect to the
ouestion-what will make manure ? ii i:
very readily answcred,-peat, marsk-mnd
;frcr and creek mad. ditch scrapiRgs, road
scrapings, the earth from. fence sides and
corners, ieares, teoods-moaid, weeds, grass
sca-wceds, all animal refuse, rags, scrap.
of leather and bones; and it may be said
iha, every thing that has had life, is capa
bic, through its own decay, to reproduce
hic again. The greater the medley forming
the compost heap, the more valuable vii
the product be.
The value ofsuch manure, will be great
" enhanced, if the soap suds, urine, pot.
liquor, ashes and other slops, and oflals, Of
every kind. either animal or vegetable
made about the house and out-houses, were
daily thrown on theheaps, so as they would
sink into the body ofthem. lie, your FISH
bones. crab-shells. eggshells, and all the
scrapings about the premiership the same
common receptacle, and occasionally strew
plaster over the heap.
Ueeds.-Search out and cut up all the
weeds upon your place, and make them
pay for the tax they have imposed upon
you, by contributing to swell the size,num-
Der, and value ofyour compost heaps. Re-
collect that every thing that one lived, will
rot, and that, in its rottcnness are the recu-
perative principles Of life.
Wet Lards.-lf you have any such lands
IN culture, dram them as speedily as may
be consistent with your other engagements
Wet lands, after being drained and allowed
time to carry off the water, become thor.
oughly changed in texturc,arc much ea.ier
worked, yield much more and better pro
duce, are more readily warmed.and there
fore earlier, sometimes to the extent oftwt
weeks and more, and withal, more healthy
after beng drained.
Deep Ploxghing.-As you will be sooI
breaking up your grounds for fall seeding
let US say to you,ihat if your land is sound
that is, not subject to be occasionally sur
charged with water, it will be benefited
by p1oughing deeper than usual,provided
heretofore, you have only turned up foul
or FIVE inches in depth. Letyour depth be
Whatsoever it may. increase 1t two inches
il that will not carry you deeper than s Oh
10inchss. In those two inches you may
find lime, potash. coda. p1ospAovse acid