The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-24
Igr,cultirai Department.

rnE SUCCESSFUL PRINCIPLES or SMALL
TARNISG on \ LARGE SCALE.
Ifyou & itivate on small scale, you are
apt to meet with success. This, with a
small garden, Il few grape vines, some bcr-
Nv bushes, several ornamental and fruit
trees, or L small farm single COW il
usually better than whole (average) dairy.
4 few sheep are better than whole flock;
and 80 on We ncd not ask why this is
80. 1t i, known well enough that greater
care is taken. There is less work, and
hence the work is apt to be done, and done
better With this fact staring us in the
face. and with the attendant increase Of
profit. the wonder il that the lesson is not
n,>.rc needed. Or are we incredulous? AL
lowance must be made that a man will do
his own work better than hired hand.
This is not always the case, but generally.
The point is that the work is well done, al
ter having been properly planned, and this
needs nothing new VI unheard of-only the
common well-known principle, praciced
by the good agrculturists. They lay out
work. hired and otherwise. They know
enough to get good honest workers, if they
are to be had, and they generally are, aided
by apprenticeship and wise humane in
structor, either in the proprietor or his
chief man. Where there is Il will there is
a wav Of course, if every farmer sought
for good hands, they could not b, supplied,
showing the lack of education in this mat
ter. But this is not the case. Work jul
dciously expended can he made profitable
This is not the case with fancy or amateur
farming, or mere book farming, though
there are worthy exceptions in the former /;
seldom in the latter, showing that the prac-
teal is the main, the Indispensable thing.
The man must occupy his subject, be in
terested and make it one with him. Then
let him branch out if he wishes, ami apply
the care and labor of a little more, ard in
crease, gradually, and as he sees himself
safe, keeping what he does in hand, con-
trolling it thoroughly, so as to get the pro-
uortional profit of the small scale on The
large.
This simply is good farming, and can be
acquired on the farm, beginning with lit.
tie. at least comparatively, and branching
out. Scores of farmers do we know that
have done this, adding acre TO acre, farm
to farm, realizing fortunes. And how many
happy. well-ordered homes do we find, OF
rural gentlemen, in the enjoyment of health
honor and contentment. This is what is
wanted. This is the aim of every true
farmer who contemplates passing his days
amid rural scenes. Let us then make the
much in our business as we do the little
and not branch out at hap-hazard, which i;
pretty certain to be loss if not ruin. IF
g., " in Utica Herald.
SURGERY AS APPLIED TO SQUASH VINES
In August of 1872. noticed, when walk
ing through the field where my squash vine
were growing that some of them were with
erng and others quite dead. Wishing t.
learn the cause of this, examined tn
vines closely to detect, if possible, the poin
where the mischief began to work. Ju>
where the vine in branching from the roo
makes an angle, l found slight knot o
protuberance. With my pocket knife
cut the vine longitudinaly for couple @
inches above and below this knot, and gent
ly turned the vine at this opening near
inside out, and found at once the cause G
the mischief borer with black hea
and about three-quarters of an inch Ion
dropped from the opening upon the ground
Gently closing the vine together, wrappe
bit of muslin about the cut, tied it up wit
awoolen thread, killed the borer, and sat
sfed that this little creature was at til
root of the growing mischief, went care
full over all my vines, applying the knit
and bandage to every vine on which the lii
amined my squashes again and found thi
many of the vines that had begun to withc
were fully restored, and the wounds mad
had healed. In the fall harvested larg
number of fully ripe squashes, having
larger yield from that field than usual III
past season my vines were entirely fire.
from the ravages of this noXious insect
find this borer described in ''IIarris on II
sects," page 33l. 1t seems "that after Dc
vouring the interior of the stem the worl
enters the soil, forms cocoon of gumnl
substance covered with particles of cart
changes to a chrysalis, and comes forth Il
next summer a winged insect This is col
spicuous for its orange. colored body, spo
ted with black, and its hind legs fringe
with long orange-colored and black hair
: The hind wings only are transparent, al
the fore wings expand from one inch to OF
inch and half 1t deposits its eggs {
the vine close to the roots, and may be see
flying about the plants from the 10th of Ju
till the middle of August" The name
this insect is A'geria Cueur5itn, and it q
tacks other curcurbitaceous vines than Il
squash. In the hope that this bit Of exp
rience in rural surgery may be of profit
your readers, have devoted part OF til
rainy day in writing it for you. r"L !
l. ;" in New York Tribune.
TO DESTROY INSECTS
The Johrnal Of Chemistry publishes
recipe for the destruction Of insects, whic
if it be half as cillcacious as it is clail
ed to be, will prove invaluable. Hot alu
water is a recent suggestion as an inse-
eide. 1t will destroy red and black an
cocliroachcs, spiders, chinch bugs and
the crawling pests which infest our home
Take two pounds Of n UNI and dissolve
in three or four quarts of boiling waite
let it stand on the fire till the alum disa
pears; then apply it with n brush VIII
nearly boiling hot, to every joint and ere
ice in your closets, bedsteads, pantry shelly
and the like. Brush the crevices in {
floor of the skirting or mop boards, if y
suspect that they harbor vermin.
whitewashing a ceiling, plenty of alum
added to the lime, it will also serve to Ike
insects at distance. Cockroaches will fl
the paint which has been washed in CT
alum water. Sugar barrels and boxes c
be freed from ants by drawing chalk ma
lust around the edge of the top of the
The mark must be unbroken, or they "
creep over it, but continuous chalk ma
half an inch in width will set their dep
dations at naught. Powdered alum or
rax will keep the chinch bugs at a respe
full distance and travellers should alwG
GARRY n nackape in their hand bags, to &C