Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-23

garden plants, none, probably, are more
effective than is prescribed in the following
extract, which we clip from the May num-
Der of Vicks Magazine:
Chow disagreeable it is to be covered with
SCOT. and what quantity of the filthy stuff
is yearly dumped into out of the way cor
ners and holes. The writer has spent four
tifths of his life in and about gardens. Dur
ing those years he has been compelled to
tight insects-many of them very small, and
others large-and this ''nasty soot' has been
zone of his best aids in overcoming the my
riad5 of insects that attack plants in a state
OF cultivation. He once lived on place
that lay on the edge of marsh, or large
tract of bog land, and such location is al
ways favorable for insects. Nothing in the
way of cabbages could be grown there sue
cessfully, without the aid of soot--no dense
ly crowded heads Of snowywhte caulihow-
ers would have graced the owners table if
SCOT had not been freely used. All the STIR
ring of the soil and manuring that could be
done, would not avail to produce a fair crop.
SCOT was first sprinl1led over the ground be-
fore the seeds were sbwn, then worked into
the soil and after the seedlings had made
their second or proper leaves, advantage
was taken of a dewy morning to cover them
with light sprinkling Of soot Then, when
the young plants We're transplanted, they
were dipped into paint composed Of equal
parts OF SCOT and soil, mixed up with water,
or what is better still, soap-suds, until the
whole was like thin paint. Into this hands
ful of plants were placed so that they We're
covered up'to their first leaves, and even
partly covering them. After doing this
there was little or no trouble in producing,
Cabbages, Caulifiowers, or any Of tllei,3
brothers-such as Savoys, Brussels Sprouts.
or the Curled Kale of Aberdeen--fit for any
piece Of humanity, troma prince TO a beg
gar.
s.Soot is one of the best friends that gar
dener or farmer has, and if he permits an
ounce of it to be thrown away, he is casting
away his own wealth. twill not kill the
wire-worm Or annihiate troublesome insects,
but it will make it very annoying for them
to be compelled to eat through it before
they can get at the nice, succulent vegeta-
bles. If SCOT is first sown pretty thickly
over the soil where Onions, carrots and 9th
er root crops are to be grown, and then
| worked in.so as not to come in contact with
the seed when it is sown, there is no fear Of
losing crop by the ravages of naggots,
Wire-Worms and other pests Here in west
ern America we complain cf insects, while
we throw away that which would drive
them to seek their food in some other place
The roller fly or moth comes regularly ey-
cry May 10 disfgure our rose bushes, often
making them appear as if they had been
burned by hot sun; when. If the bushes
had been daiaped and SCOT put on them IN
the first weeks in May, say once week, tile
roller fly would have been missing, Should
any leaves have missed a coat Of SCOT, look
over them about five or six in the evening,
and this insect may be easily seen on tie
top of the leaf where it has gone to feal
during the night while in the day time It
lays quietly underneath to shade itself from
the sun. h
''rhe farmers Of England are great scot
users. and it is nonncommon thing to seea
whole train of SCOT leaving the towns for lie
farms ana gardens at a distance The tlr-
nip crop of England would be failure ead1
wear were it not for SCOT, and this is yey
important crop in many districts. Alter
they get into the second leaf the SCOT oegns
TO fiv. or if not a small fly takes. possession
of the young tender leaves, and leaves tie