The Newtown bee., 1880-08-11
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
To Destroy Cabbage Worms.

FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
 To Destroy Cabbage Worms.
 From many experiments made we are inouced to discard the various applica- tions which soil or contaminate the leaves. When the plants are young, and when the worms first make their ap- pearance in comparatively few numbers, they are to be removed by hand. The plants may be cleared as rapidly as by the various applications used, counting in the time of preparing or procuring these applications As soon as the heads form, use hot water. If any i'm jury results from the heat. it will be only to the edges of the outer leaves. The body of the head cannot become heated. If the insects have become numerous, this will be found rapid mode for their extermination. We are often asked for the degree in tenpera- ture to which the water should be | heated. We cannot give the precise de- gree. The watering-pot in which 1t is carried will not reta n high heat long, | and the fine streams of water from the rose are partly cooled in their passage | through the air. It is supposed that a temperature of l20 degrees will kill the worms, but greater heatis better, pro- | vided the cabbage leaves are not 
 | do the work right, and the operator may experiment on few small heads, or else begin with warm water and | gradually increase the temperature. In little time he will learn to apply the water as it should be. Immediately after filling the watering-pot when the water is hot, he will give quick or in stantaneous dash. This will be suffi- cient to destroy all the worms; after the l lpd hn n CT will be continued longer. The great advantage of this treatment is that the cabbages are left perfectly clean.- Country Gentleman.
 A Word to Farmers' Sons.
 | Farmers sons are quite apt to suppose | that they can only attain t. any coveted position in life through an a-enue of some trade or profession. They look about and find the wealthy men nearly all belonging to these classes. They do not stop to consider that only the wealthy ones come to view; that for every one of those who has acquired wealth and distinction ninety nine others have failed and disappeared; or have never risen to notice at all. They act on the belief that they are the only persons that can be called into public life, ignoring the fact that it is in the training they get that constitutes the difference rather than the calling. A farmer of equal learning and culture with the lawyer would, we believe, find himself in just as good request, with perhaps many chances in his favor. Il the farmer allows the professional man
 to monopolize all the advantages at the start, he must expect to fad himself al disadvantage all the way through.
 Household Hints.
 The New York Tribune says: G. B
 writes Mrs. A. E. H. is informed that
 for many years I have kept roll butter
 per ectly sweet by placing the roll:
 closely but not crushed, either in stone
 or oaken vessel, the bottom of which il
 first covered with clean salt, then th'
 whole mass of butter is covered two ol
 more inches deep with brine as stronl
 as salt can make 1t, and the vessel !
 then covered tightly.
 H. M. B. secures perfect immunity
 from ants by using white hellebore This she puts around her sugar barre and under the papers on her shelves
 tant, so it is desirable to keep it iron children. 4 swing shelf keeps the dail,
 cooked food from being infested. 4 , neighbor of H. M. B. keeps a pan witt little sugar in it outside her close win6 ow, and while the supply lasts tn ants keep away from the closet.
 To discover whether bread is adulter , ated with alum, soak the bread in wate
 and to the water in which it has beel ? soaked add a little of the solution c I muriate of lime, upon which, if an l alum be present, the liquid will be per vaded with milkiness; but if the brea 8 be pure, the liquid will remain limpid
 Rationale-sulphuric acid has stronge e affinity for the lime than alumlna an
 potassium, with which it forms alum P it therefore quits those bodies to iorI | sulphate of lime with the lime of tf V test, which produces the mllklnesS. v Don't Crowd the Fruit Trees. :. In setting out fruit trees it is not un t common to see insufficient allowane }, made for their future growth; henc q | when the years have passed and u q little sapings have attained their flu 1 size, their spreading branches almost, y not quite, interlace, excluding neede
 sunlight and air from the lower branch' V and bringing the roots into too nes s neighborhood. It has been observe :" that the 10 yer branches of trees plante 1T in this way produce inferior fruit, whi r the upper branches-receiving abul
 dance of sun and air-give fruit of goo l, quality; also. that the outer rows
 taese trees have finer fruit than u
 inner rows. The facts teach a lesst
 likewise in pruning. Branches shou 1t not be allowed to grow so thickly as
 exclude a fair share of light and a i'd iron any part of the tree. The distan % apart the trees should be set must
 determined by the climate and by u a kind of tree; the size of even the san le variety of trees varies more or less wi Is the climate. Less complaint would ot .leard about non- -fruiting yea s if a ge
 erous belt of sunlight was allowed h ve tween the rows of tle trees, and the st of annually supplied sufficient food a material to restore that used in the pr 8 duction of large crops of fruit.-Ld if | oaofo.. / po \ Eoo.o,7pr