The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-07-06
VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS.

Cabbage WORMS can be easily killed
with hot water just below the point
of scalding the leaves. This is about
160 to 40 degrees according to the age
and condition OF the plants.
The following recipe, it is said, fur
nishes a mixture which kills potato
bugs and their eggs: Steep tobacco
stems or refuse tobacco, and to the
decoction add lye from wood ashes or
potash, and sprinkle the liquid upon
the vines with a common sprinkler.
TO KILL Bugs. "A correspondent of
the Germantown Telegraph writes:
'Melon and cucumber bugs like rddish
leaves better than any other kind.
SOW a few radish seeds in each hill,
and never lose a plant. Earth worms,
cut worms, white grubs, and, in fact.
all soft bodied worms are easily driven
out by salt sown broadcast. You can
do no harm with ten bushels TO the
acre, but half bushel is ample. Dry
Stacked lime is also effectual."
To PRESERVE FENCE PosTs. The
American Chemists says that western
farmer discovered, many years ago,
that wood could be made to last longer
than iron in the ground. Time an d
weather, lie says, seem to have no
effect Oh it. The posts can be pre-
pared for less than two cents apiec e.
This is the recipe: Take boiled lin
seed oil and stir it in pulverized char
coal to the consistency of paint. Put
coat of this over the timber, and, he
adds. there is not a man who will live
TO see it rot.
NostrnGs for the determination of
tpo'ato bugs are very plentiful, but all
of them involve the use of poisons
which had better not be meddled with
a great deal unless the most scrupuIous
care is exercised. \ friend of ours
has a potato patch upon which OILY
one Colorado beetle has been seen this
year, while his neighbors have been
fighting bugs for two or three
weeks past, aad almost daily applica-
ton of Paris green or constant hand
picking being necessary. Our friends s
secret lies in the Iact that he turns his
chickens among the potatoes, and they
make thorough work Of the bugs
AAJGny Journal.
CAMPHoR AS A REMEDY FOR GAPES.
The Poultry Bulletin says that it has
rather discredited the idea of any cure
for gapes in chickens, but now con
fesees, after examination, that it has
faith in caInphor. The camphor acts
upon the worms by vapor, the same as
in inhalation of carbolic acid fu nes,
and being a very strong verrnifuge,
il kills the WORMS. It is usual 10 give
the remedy in pills about the size of
an ordinary pea, and also diluted in
the water they drink. The chick will
smell of the carnphor for long time
after taking it, and the fumes cannot
fail to penetrate the windpipe and
lungs Naturalists use caInphor to
keep out mites and various museum
pests from their cabinets, and we see
no reason why its fumes should not be
destructive to the gapeworn.
THINNING FRUIT.-According to the
Scientific Farmer, thinning fruit on
pear, peach, and choice apple trees is
too little practiced. By removing the
small and gnarly specimens the forces
of the tree will be saved to perfect the
better ones, which will, hence, bring
a much higher price. This idea is past
the theoretical stage, having been
proved by extensive practice among
all the best growers. Summer prun.
ing, toe, is neglected art, except
with the leading fruit raiSers. Pinch.
ing the buds of young trees on those
branches where the development is ex.
cessive is far preferable to the cutting
of branches later. Grape vines es
pecialIy are best treated in this way.
In them thinning and pruning may be
combined, by selecting a few fruiting
shoots and reruOviny all tbp r, n nv
rinching of the ~uds and tender
shoots. A dozen punches to each