The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-15

everything to herself. She makes the
whole Sountxy, from California 10 New
York, and lrom Canada to New Or
leans, AihqtAry to her; so,that now for
lone to blAntl argely Of this vegetable
would Sc : venture, Is almost every
other new business is venture, and q
question whether the operator win or
will not nuke q success of it. But, If
I had the. land in the right place, I
should not hesitate to do something in
this line again.-C0r. Chicago Tribune.
The Canker Worm.
We will suppose that the various
remedies proposed to prevent the fe-
male moth from getting into the limbs
of the apple tree have not been success
full or have been omitted, and that the
eggs are Matching Just before the apple
blossoms unfold (Which is about the
time the red currant il in blossom),
what must we do to destroy the Larvae
or wormse As they grow to maturity
in about four weeks and feed rapidly,
it is important to destroy them when
they first begin to feed. There is at
present no known remedy for their de-
sruction equal to arsenic or Paris
green. Paris green when not adul-
terated, is composed of two parts of
arsenic and one part of verdigris or
acetate of copper. It is the copper
which gives the green color. As we
procure it for destroying the potato bug
it 10 mixed with various substances,
probably reduced one-half or more.
When we buy pound of Paris green,
instead of getting ten ounces Of arsenic
We get four or i've. Paris green has
been used in q large, bad1 y-infested
orchard with perfect success when
commenced early and applied two or
three times with force pump. The
mixture used was one-fourth of . pound
Of Paris green to q barrel of water, fire.
quently stirred. Some would add to
the water some whale-oil soap suds to
give the solution little more body to
prevent the green from washing off
readily. Whale-oil soap alone is a
failure. White hellebore has been
thoroughly tried without avail. Many
farmers who have used Paris green to
destroy potato bugs might prefer to
use the same on the canker worm. It
drug shops costs only about one shil-
ling q pound. Paris green thirty to
forty cents pound.
Mr.. E. w. fomeroy, of Lee Center,
ILL.,, who had 500 trees badly infested
last year, wrote to me that he used in
kerosene barrel of water one-fourth of
pound of Paris green thoroughly and
frequently stirred. The barrel of the
solution was placed in q wagon and a
force pump used. MIR. p. writes: eve
took the nOzzles which are on the end
of about five feet of one-inch rubber
hose, and had piece of sheet copper
soldered on around it, and about three
inches long and large enough at the
the outer end SO that we could make it
fat, so as to throw stream about one
half inch wide and about as thick as q
pen-knife blade. This kind of stream
will spread from one to two feet ON top
of the tree. Fasten your pump on the
with one-half of the top head taken
out, and hung on the other half like .
trap door, the pump set on the perma-
nent half of the head with q suction
pipe from the bottom of the pump
down to within an inch of the bottom
of the barrel. Then put q piece of
wire cloth around the bottom of the
suction-pipe to strain the water, and
with your hose on nozzle on upper end
you are ready for business. II you get
the solution of the green too strong it
will injure the leaves of itself. We be-
gan using our mixture as soon as the
worms began to hatch, which is just
before the trees come into blossom,
when the leaves are very small; as soon
as you can discern by close examine
ton that the worms begin to hatch, is
the time to begin to work at them. One
day then is worth four days after the
worms are half grown. Begin early.
This is very important. / showered
mine in part four times, and in q part
three times, some twice, and some only
once, and succeeded in killing the
worms, and saved the foliage so that
the trees continued to grow and look
green all the time. Perhaps arsenic
will do as we'll. Two men will use
fourteen to eighteen barrels in day
and shower from lao to $50 trees. Tell
your neighbors to begin early.''
Mr.. B. b. Odds, Of Clinton, Wis,
writes as follows, which have permits
sion to copy: lin reply to your in
quiries would say that some of our
orchards have been severely tried by
that great pest, the canker worm. A
neighbor's orchard, some eighty rods
from mine, was infested some three or
four years, and neglected and ruined
before mine was attacked. Another
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large or ,hard was attacked and COW
cred with them about the time they
first commenced on mine, fought them
with vigilance to head off the female
from ascending the tree by applying
tar bands around the tree. Although
they were caught by bushels he gave it
up as failure, peing completely dis
Outraged. The tar bands were only
two to three inches wide; they should
have been one foot or more. In the
meantime, as I discovered sprinkling
Of them on the side of my orchard next
the one first alluded to, saw in some
paper remedy by applying q solution
OF arsenic, one pound to fifty gallons
of water, to the foliage while the
worms are at work, which I tried at
once with perfect success. The next
year my neighbor adopted the same
plan with similar success, although we
found by experiment that weaker so
luton would answer, as this caused the
leaves to turn black. 1 think about
seventy to eighty gallons to the pound,
which is required to be dissolved in q
. nall portion of hot water and then
diluted. There may be danger in
pasturing, but think not after rain
storm. Arsenic is much cheaper than
Paris green. TO apply it place it in a
barrel on q wagon with a force-pump
or garden engine attached, and with
an assistant drive one side of = row,
then back on the other, which is quick
ly done when all is ready. Would rec
ommend making the application soon
after the worms commence working,
and repeat it necessary"
! am permitted by Mr.. J. c. Plumb,
OF Milton, Wis. to copy apart of his
letter relating to the canker-worm.
He writes: 1.-THE whole 0uestion If