The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-09-18
To Destroy Tobacco Worms.

The tobacco worm not only infeets
the plant which it's name is derived, but
is very destructive to the potato and to-
mato plants. The labor of ''worminp'
tobacco is best known by those who cnI-
tivate the plant, but our market gar
deners, and others who grow the tomato
extensively, seldom make it business
to kill the worms, but suffer them to
prey upon their plants and arrive at
maturity, and continue to propagate and
multiply their species an infnitum. We
have somewhere seen it stated that a
preparation of cobalt, a poisonous nine
raj often used TO destroy house flies.
may be employed to kill the large moth
or miller, the parent of the potato or
tobacco worm. One of these female
insects called "horn-blowers, will Law
several hundred eggs, each becoming a
destructive worm, and the whole of this
army of voracious and repulsive-looking
insects may be prevented by killing the
parent. These large millers are seen in
the dusk of the evening flying around
IN the sweet-scented honeysuckle, tho
jamestown weed, and any large honey
producing blossoms, gathering honey
just like the humming- which it
very much resembles while on the wing.
The cobalt is prepared as follows It
should be pulverized in a mortar very
fine, and three or four ounces of this
may be placed in pint bottle, to which
should be added n mixture of honey and
water; two or three drops of the liquid
is to be placed in the freshly opened
blossoms of the jamestown weed, as the
most convenient. This being repeated
occasionally in the afternoon, during
the season OF the moth, every one that
partakes of the substance readily dies.
The jamestown weed attracts the fly by
its large, bell-shaped flowers, and is a
plant the worm delights to feed on.
Fresh Eggs. Fresh Fish, Fresh Butter.
These three articles are only good
when they are as described, fresh. Then
they are royalty good, Yet seldom is
it that they are so obtained. An egg is
not fresh when it is two or three. days
old. Kept but a day in hot weather.
and there is a difference; already incu-
baton has commenced. An egg should
be eaten the day it is laid. It is much the
same with butter. A fish a few hours in
the sun is seriously hurt. An egg may be
impaired by bad food, by filthy air or
water. The different kinds of food have
an influence. Corn, with some other
clean food, win give good flavor, will
impart that peculiar sweetness which so
distinguishes a good egg from an ordi-
nary or poor one. Tainted food in all
cases should DO avoided This is our
experience, independent of what the
books say. a fresh egg, perfect in fla
vor and quality, cooked with butter
equally good, is tit-bit, is rarity.
Hence each family, if possible, should
havea few hens to ensure this dish forthe
table. It is not enough, though favor,
TO have access TO a hennery which fur.
nishes eggs for the market. They are
seldom all good or of the first quality.
Each family should furnish its own eggs.
as il can be made all the more profitable
where but a few hens are kept. From
half n dozen 20 a dozen will generally
do this, and it will do it winter and
summer if rightly managed. Country
Gentleman.