The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-07-14

The second time he put a little
-four in the water, which had the
effect OF making it adhere better
to the leaves, and he thinks was
better. The two applications
completely cleared out the bugs. |
He saw many persons using COM
mon sprinklers, and he believes
they were successful.
Mr.. Strouse had three and a
half acres, and had to put the
poison en- but once. The rows
were thirty rods long, and the po-
tatoes planted IN drills eighteen
inches in the rows, so it required
q considerable sprinkling to go
through a row. He put the poi
son in water, which was supplied
by a cask at each end and one in
the middle of the field. Three
men did the sprinkling in half a
day, and q boy carried the water
to supply the casks. He bought
two pounds of the poison and
there was a quarter of a pound
left. The field gave 3 good crop,
with DO further trouble from the
bugs after the sprinkling was
done. Joseph Hoffman stated
that wheat shorts is better than
the -four TO mix with, as it will
not work into Jumps so readily.
SO is buckwheat -four. 1itl .t<s5
GREEN soILING STOCK y
The following advantages of
soiling stock (keeping animals in
yards or barns and feeding them
on green feedD are from a work
published some years ago by JOSH
ali Quincy, Dr., of Mass:
All the European writer's main
tanned that six distinct advanta-
ges were to be obtained by the
practice of 'soiling' over that of
pasturing cattle in the summer
season. 1st., it saves land; I'd, it
saves fences; 3d., it economies
food; 4th, it keeps cattle in better
condition and greater comfort; 9th,
it produced more milk; 9th, it in
creased the quality and quantity
of manure.
Satisfied in my own mind of the
beneficial effects of the practice,
l adopted it. keeping some fifteen
or twenty head of milch cows,
with some other stock, and with
entirely satisfactory results. Siuce
then 1 have kept from thI:ty-five
to fifty COWS in this way; so that,
in my mind, my experience is
conclusive on the subject. Corn
may be sown for solling as late as
the first week in July.
THE APPLE WORM.
The question how TO destroy
the codling apple worms, lately
came before the New York Farm
er's Club, and notwithstanding
that its members are not the men
that the writer would go to for
sound agricultural information.
yet, occasionally an outsider has
something to say of some impor-
lance. At a late meeting Mr..
Sylvester, of Lyons, N. Y, said
that he recommended encircling
the trunks of the apple trees with
bands of twisted hay, and they
had proved a success. But as
this method requires considerable
hay, and is a slow operation in
twisting the bands, a better way
is to fold straw paper, and with
Irvine to arruound the trunk
of the tree at q height
that will admit of easy axamina-
ton once in ten days or two
weeks, to destroy 1.-THE worms nm
der the bands. This is in con-
frmation Of what 1 have previ-
ously said on this subject. He
said: "The paper bands were
tried by the whole community in
small district in Michigan, and
found to be very effectual. 1t has
been a very common belief that
the worms cause the apples to fall,
and fall with them, and if hogs
enough to consume all the fallen
fruit are placedln the orchard the
worms will all be destroyed. II is
admitted that hogs are most ex-
cellent tenants of the orchards
and are very valuable as worm
eaters, yet they do not have &C
cess to a large portion. of the
wormy apples, and hence cannot
destroy all Of them.