The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-07
rliE COTTON WORaI-TilE ELuBu A
PREVENTIVE.

We have received from subscriber in Beaufort
| All article from ihc Massachusetts Plovqtnan re-
iatinG to tho use Of the elder as preventive o
The attacks Of insects, which we publish below
Tho communication was forwarded TO Gov Bun,
| rocM, oi Massachusetts by tho widow Of the late
Cnnsu-Genornl 10 Egypt. Tho writer thinks Il
might DO usod successfully against the n,m5
worm-it would bo cheap experiment to try on
the caterpillar. which is non doing 60 much dam. &C
on oHr son Islands:
The elder is a most wonderful preventive
against all kinds of insects and worms that iniost
The vegetable kingdom and al tunes utterly dies.
troy the labor ot man."
~ was. like electricity, discovered by accident
anu think tho asriculturists will owe much Ia
tLis accident and to tho obseryatiSna a,ld cxucri.
mrnts of the inpnirng mind that discovered tl,r
intrinsic value and qualities of tho sanbucus."
manner
LIST; For fruit and other trees strong solution,
- 10 De nlatlc by putting quantity of the elder
| lhc water Incomes strongly impreEnntcd, with n
hand engine to sprinkle well every part of tho rcc
with tho solution, Which must DO twice week
before tho blossoms appear, though there il Iio
great risk of nnring either the blossoms fruit
II Tho samhucns tree was planted umong tho fruit
and other trees, 1t would hnyo tho snn,o effect, 10
That its branches might entwne themselves among
those OF tho truit tree, or lying u number of liz
DranehcS amouG thGso of the fruit and other trees
Ioar.
3D. For wheat crops and other cereals, but par.
ti;ninrly tic whcn,, which IL ofien attacked with
the ycliows or miltlew, occasioncd by small ycl-
low fly with blue wings, about the sizo OF q gnat,
which blows into IN ear of corn aud produces a
small woru almost Invisible to tho naked oye, but
when soon with microscope, II appears to DO a
large yellow aGgot, tho color Of amber; this fly ia
very prolific, lnying rs many as oight or ten cggs
crop. Tho method OF using tho elder in this in
stance IL for two men to supply themselves with
seSeral bushes OF the Older, aud 10 60 OH cacl,
side OF The ridges, nnd to lnoyo tho bushes from
enI to end, and so Oh back again, drawing them
well over the cars of corn, before they uro too fur
advanced. think ii would be preferable to apply
tho elder before the corn is formed, and whenever
thcse hcs or any other insects nro discovered to
have made thoir appearance, and they will in,-
mediatcly evncuatc.
ID. Crops Of tnrnps, cabbages, cauluwers,
potatoes, etc., arc frequently destroyed when
young by beng bitten by some kind Of insect
either flies or ileas, mud which may bo prevented
about the breadth Of a ridge, aud dawn once or
twico over tho beds, forward and backward. After
this operation these insccts disappear.
it'll. Tho cock chatter, or oak web, may thus he
expelled by whipping and passing tho elder bush
over tho parts they have assaulted US they seldom
leave any green thing untouched, but hold III ab-
horrcnce the cider tree. and will not approach it.
9th. The army worm, which is 30 destructive to
the cotton plant crops. think may bo expelled, il
se ms is hcroin directed ior tho wheat crops, and
ror to the planter, would very soon be compelled
to surrender. The dwarf cldor (Ebulus), / should
think with tho army worm would bc preferable, az
it ia much more powerful in its odor. Whom they
commence their march onward it would be adyis-
able to lay branches OF the sbuus their road of
march, rs they sccm to defy everything in their
destructive progrcaH, and it would br we'll to tako
observations how they would manage TO avoid the
elder, which think will destroy them. This ia a
suggestion OF my OWN. AS this preventive, tho
elder, has hccn thoroughly teatcd, and met with
the most wonderful success In all the other
herein cited, and accident has boon tho moanH,
through investigation, of doing much for the
benefit of man, am fully persuaded that The aRri-
cultuIst, of or country would do well to live This
preventive u thorough trial.
FRANCES A. McCAULEY,
Widow oil The late d. $. McCauity, United Stntcs
Consul General of Egypt.