Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-02-28
TO KILL WORMS AT THE ROOTS
OF TREES.

Take a small hoe, or other suitable
implement, and excavate the earth from
the roots of the tree to the depth that
the worms usually penetrate. Then
takea a pound of unslacked lime, broken
into small fragments, mix it with the
earth removed from the tree root, and
pack the mixture into the excavation
around the tree, then pour water upon
the mixture in sufficient quantity to slack
the lime. The heat evolved by this
means, together with the corrosive quail
ity Of theslime, will, within few min
utes, roy every worm, even when
they ma nave penetrated through the
bark; and this, too, without injuring the
tree. If half dozen good peaches
would not compensate for your labor,
you are no lover Of fruit
To prevent the frost from killing the
fruit buds in the spring, take half a
bushel Of unslacked lime; divide it into
four parts; put these parcels into an equal
number of boxes, capable of holding
about three times the bulk of lime. If
you fear sharp frost, place these boxes
in such positions under the tree as will
enable the heated moisture elevated from
the boxes, to diffuse itself through the
branches of the tree. Having things
thus prepared, between the hours of
twelve and two o'clock in the morning,
pour upon the lime in the boxes water
enough to slack the lime. By this
means, heat and moisture enough will be
elevated among the branches to prevent
the destruction of the fruit buds at that
time, and so on by repetition if neces-
sary, afterwards.
These devices for the preservation of
trees and fruit, may not be original, but
so far as [ know, both ideas originated
with myself. And what are they? Moth
ing but common sense, to every one who
knows that the Stacking of lime pro-
duces an intense heat-Ohio Farmer
Statistics of Headache, .........
The Medical Times and Gazette con-
tains some interesting medical data, OBJ
tained by inquiries made in the usual
course of professional experience, con-
cerning the causes of headache Of
ninety cases cited, seventy-six were fe-
mdleS"d nuuDer WHICH eSIaDllSneS
pretty strongly the fact testified to by
most of the old writer's, that females are
more frequent sufferers. Of the seventy
six females, forty were single. The
predisposition in the case of females is
believed to originate in the nervous sys-
tem-susceptibility of nervous disorder
being much oftener found in the female
than in the male subject. 1t is likely
to exist in organisms which evidences a
capability Of so much fneness and deli
cacy of perception, united with SO much
preneness to emotional excitement, and
in which the functions of organic life are
observed to be SO readily wrought by
passing states of thought, sensation and
emotion. OF the exciting causes, emo
tional disturbance has the highest num-
Der. Out of ninety cases, fifty three de-
clared this to be one of the causes Of
their attacks; forty eight also consid-
cred that atmospheric states were to be
blamed, and twenty-five specified thun-
der. In regard to inheritance of the Ii
ability, in nineteen cases the mother is
in nine, the father; and in
twelve, both parents. In all, forty gave
explicit evidence Of hereditary predispo
sition.