The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-24
AGRICULTURAL.
VINE AT TIE SOUTH.

IF the report we read as to the success
met with in growing grapes at the south
are correct, a source of industry is open
TO the people which may almost rival
cotton-growing, being less expensive to
continue, and requiring less capital at
the outset. Vines near Mobile, six years
old, are said to produce three bushels of
grapes each, making good wine. 1t is
notorious that almost worthless soil is
the best adapted for wine-making grapes.
Worn-out plantations may yet be made
profitable. Let the western crooked
whisky men emigrate, and try making
wine on the square.-Eorest and Stream.
DESTROYING ROACIIEs.=s -7se
Take dry red lead mix with thin mo-
lasses to consistency of thin cream;
then take pieces of glass and broken
plates, ETC., spread it ON about as thick
as thin window glass. Where reaches
are very numerous, give them plenty Of
the mixture, as they eat very greedily of
it. / think the general failure with
roach poisons is this: The poison is so
quick in sickcning the reaches that they
will not eat enough of it to kill them,
for they are slow eaters. The red lead
being slow in its effect on them, they will
get good quantity into them before il
will sicken them. l have noticed when
any of them would happen to be tram
pied upon it would appear that they
were entirely filed with the rel lead,
Place the lead where the reaches can get
at it most conveniently. If the lead
should become too dry and hard, mix a
little more lead and molasses with the
old to freshen it up again, and place it in
other places.-Our Home Journal.
| A REMEDY FOR CHEAT AND COOKIE.
Some years ago my wheat was very
much "turned" to cheat and cookie.
AS had just as much faith in wheat
turning to one'as the other, Iresolved to
sow no more ofstheseeds efSeither, and
took a screen off an old fan, put rim
around it, and sat down by my heap OF
seed wheat, cookie and cheat or chess.
and sieved it SO long as any cheat, cookie
Tor small grains OF wheat would 60
through.s Isowed only what would not
pas through. The result was, scarcely
stalk Of any thing but wheat could be
found in fortv-ives acres the next haf.
vest, and what ew stalks appeared pre-.
Mme nd been in the rnanuresI treated
my eed the ame sway the mex. fall
1.-THE following -spring,zin. sewing grass
SEED OVER City aeres,9I found but one
4 seelk q cookie, and in harvesting not &
A haadful of chest and no cookie wa.
j 6and, notwithstanding the wheat had
A been rua on, tramped snd catensby the
lambs md chickens very mucti
Farmers Friend. T-xSs y %ygfA
DEsrRoYING TIE C4TEKrILLARs.
Don't let the caterpillars live in you
orchard. Their nests are an eyesore, and
seriously Hnjure the trees they infest
just at the time when the tree needs it,
foliage to promote its health, growth ane
life, the worms come forth and generally
strip it. Then nature tries to repair thu
injury by clothing it in new dress bu
time is required to accomplish this, and
in the meantime the ordinary anc
natural process of storing up material t
preserve its vigor has been interfereo
with 1t is an. evidence of shiltlessnes
to permit this sort of thing TO go on, and
it is inexcusable.g The worms hibernate
and goYthrough their transformations
coming forth perfect insectsEimagos Oh
butterflies each female laying hun
ldreds of eggs, and thus increasing
enormously in numbers the following
year. ,.
The nests Of these caterpillars may be
easily seen and the whole of them de
stroyed. This is done by fixing a swab
dipped in gas tar aud fastened to the END
of q pole long enough TO reach the nests
Gas tar is IAN .,efectua, remedy. 1t kill.
1 every Nerms it touches. Be sure and
touch every wofm.ZRestcrn RtrsIs
| lGREEN CROPS SFOIs aI4NURE. ,
At meeting of the western New YerE
farmer's club president Quinby said he
had plowed under good clover crops, and
generally gotgcod wheat crops following
+ but had come to the conclusion that it i.
better TO cut the clover and feed te
stock, and pillow under the roots. by re
!. turning manure made by stock to the
land, and turning under the roots, hi
generally got as good crops as when ht
turned under the whole plant. Once
had a twelve-acre piece of sandy, grayelly
loam, which he sowed to wheat, and only
reaped seven bushels to the acre. The
land was full of red root. The mex
spring he plosved the field and sowed il
to corn, about two and a half bushels O
seed to the acre. When the corn wa
four to five feet high, and about to tassel
he turned it under and sowed to vhea
again. The crop yielded twenty -fou
bushels to the acre. The corn seemed t.
renovate the soil, and that field Dor,
good crops thereafter Has plowed unde
buckwheat and has found mechanical eff
fects good, on stiff soil, but did not thinl
it afforded much manure. At the sam,
meeting, Mr.. Allis said that failure from
the use of corn and buckwheat resulted
from not blowing under long enough be
forehand for the green crops to rot. The,
should be plowed under several week
before seeding. Buckwheat is oftel
turned in when killed by frost, and doe
little good. A neighbor sowed CORE
plowed it under, and sowed wheat i'm
mediately, and the wheat was failure
Several members said that clover as