Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-06-05
Agricultural.

EDUCATION OF FARMERS wIvEs.-Farmer's
wives should study yeconomy-economy of money,
economy of time and economy OF mind. Nest
all OF us think we know how to save, but we do
not. 1t is not economy for farmers wives and
daughters to stand out in the snow ON butcher
ing day, and clean and wash hogs entrails, inst
to save what little fat there is on them for soap
grease L have known farmers wives and
daughters to do this when the whole amount
saved would not be worth TWENTY-FIVE cents and
their husbands and fathers at that time were
worth $50, 900.
know farmers wives who are so anxious to
make money that they never allow their children
to have any cream or good, rich milk to eat with
their mush. They give their little ones bIue
milk and sour yeast, seven days old (they saw IL
takes so much fresh bread for meal they opIv
bake once week and the consequence is the
children are made sick, the doctor is sent for and
his bills have to be paid. which are often as
much as all the butter will come to that the
mother VIII sell in six months. Now all such
methods as these are the very reverse Of econo-
my. When farmers wives are as INTELLIGENT "a
they should be, they consider the preservation or
their own health and the health of their families
as the greatest economy that can be practiced ON
the farm We must quit this stufing business
we must learn that neither good taste nor GOOD
sense requires us TO prepare fourteen ditferan,
dishes every time neighbor comes to visit ns
IL we would do less of this fixing and fussing,
preparing food that one dare eat if be hoped N
nave long life-and put our time in in reading
and thinkins-yes, it is absolutely necessary that
we have time to think. We must give onr
friends and our families plain, welI-cooked food
ana then devote some time each day to our own
imProvement.-PrarieF Farmer.
THE NEw PEACH EsEMr.-we briefly alluded,
last week, says the Denton (Md.) Union. to the
new enemy in our midst to the peach tree The
insect Is small black bug to be found on the
peaeh twlg, and near the bud, by the hundreds.
varying in size, when seen through magnifvino
glass, common garden pea. They are found
from the egg state, without apparent life. in an
stages of development up TO the full grown bue.
AMIDST every remedy has been resorted to by
MI o. w. herr, In an adjoining town, to save
his young peach stock, but so far without suc-
cess lie has resorted to coal oil, a strong solu-
ton OF tobacco, earbolie soap and various other
remedies. which are efectual in destroving the
bug but which also destroy the tender bud of
'he peach These remedies, although proving
enectual in destroying the bug and at the same
time killing the fruit, were abandoned last week
and force of workers dispatched to the nurse
res ior the collection of the bugs. The days
labor resulted in capturing one bushel of bugs.
the exact amount being ascertained by aetual
measurement, which were placed in n fire and
burned. The second day was spent in poino
over the same trees a second time, when another
half oushel of bugs were gathered and burned.
ouch is their power of reproduction Mr.. Kerr
thinks he had not gone over more than the one-
twentieth part of his nursery of Sc. 600 peach
Stock the largest portion of which he believes to
be entirely destroyed by their depredations
To DESTROY INsEcTs.-Hot alum water is a
recent suggestion as insectcide II will de-
stroy red and black ants, cocKIoaches, spiders.
ciiintz ougs, and all the crawling pests which
lnfest our houses. Take two pounds of alum
and dissolve it IN three four quarts of boiling
water; let il stand on the FIRE till the alnm AZ,
appears; then apply it with brush, while near
~ boiling hot, to every joint and erevice in your
closets, bedsteads, pantry shelves and the like
Brush the erevices in the floor of the skirting mr.
mop-boards, if you suspect that they barbor
vermln. If in whte-washing a ceiling plenty of
alum Is added to the lime, it will also serve to
Keep insects at a distance. Cockroaekes will
nee the paint which has been washed in cooI
alum water. Sugar barrels and boxes can be
freed from aunts by drawing wide chalk mark
Just around the edge of the top of them. The
marx must be unbroken or they will creep over
it, bura continuous chalk mark half IN inch in
width will set their depredations at naugbt.
Powdered alum or borax will keep the ehintz
bug at respectable distance, and travellers
should always carry a package of it in their
handbags to scatter over and under their pillows
in places where they have reason to suspect the
presence of such bedfellows.-Jo,nrual of Cas,ais
try.