The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-17
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
A Sound Agricultural Greed.

A Sound Agricultural Greed,
The agriculturists of Canada, in con-
vention assembled, lately adopted a
creed good enough to be subscribed to
by their brethren all over the continent.
Listen: We believe in small farms and
thorough cultivation; we believe that
the soil lives to eat, as well as the
owner, and ought therefore to be well
manured; we believe in going to the
bottom of things, and therefore deep
blowing, and enough oft, all the better
II it be subsoil plow; we believe in
large crops which leave the land better
than they found it, making both the
farm and the farmer rich at once; we
believe that every farm should own a
good farmer; we believe that the fer
tilizer of any soil is spirit of industry,
enterprise and intelligence; without
these, lime, gypsum and guano would
be OF little use; we believe in good
fences, good farmhouses, good orchards,
and good children enough to gather the
fruit; we believe in a clean kitchen,
neat wife in it, a clean cupboard, clean
dairy, and clear conscience; we believe
that to ask a mans advice is not stoop
ing, but of much benefit; we believe
that to keep place for everything, and
everything in it's place, saves many a
step, and is pretty sure to lead to good
tools and to keeping them in order; we
believe that kindness to stock, like good
shelter, is saving of fodder; we believe
that it is good thing to keep an eye on
experiments. and note all, good and
bad; we believe that it is good rule to
sell grain when it is ready; we believe
in producing the best butter and cheese,
and N marketing it when it is ready.
Carbolic Acid I'm the Garden.
The general employment of carbolic
acid for sanitary purposes induced
correspondent, who relates his expert
ences, to try whether it might not be
applied with equal advantage in some
of the many diseases to which vegeta-
bles, as well as flesh, are heirs. He
first experimental with a solution of
one part of the acid in twenty parts of
water, which was allowed to stand for
twenty -four hours before being used.
BY that time a layer of fat or oil had
appeared on the surface, the contact of
which with plants speedily destroyed
them. This was subsequently with
drawn by means Of pipette. and the
clear fluid below alone used. This
proved an equally dangerous applica-
ton, for some beds of savoys and rad
ishes, which were watered with it in
order to free them from ground feas
with which they were infested, were
totally destroyed by it. A weaker solu-
ton, consisting of one part of acid in
fifty Of water, proved scarcely less in
furious to vegetation. The application
was now tried in the still more diluted
form OF one part in a hundred, the
supernatant oil being carefully removed
before use. In these proportions it
answered admirably az an insecticide,
without causing the slightest injury to
even the tenderest plants. A single APP
plication effectually freed the beds from
ground lice and similar destructive YER
min. A very small quantity introduced
into an ant hill so disturbed its busy
occupants that, contrary to all the
habits of these insects, they abandoned
their pup9 in their hurried flight. A
cherry tree, whose ripe fruit afforded
favorite hunting ground for these ants,
was at once protected from their visits
by slight application of the solution
to its stem, though they returned to the
attack in tour or five days when the
pungent smell of the acid was lost.
Their further depredations were once
for all checked, however, by girdle of
cottonwood impregnated with the
strong acid being bound round the
trunk. Many other varieties of insects
were kept at bay or driven from their
haunts by the same means, which also
formed a most valuable protection
against mildew, with which the rose
and peach trees in the garden were
sadly troubled. In one instance, q rose
tree which had borne no flowers for five
previous years ia consequence of mil
dew attacking the young stems of the
buds Immediately they were formed,
was observed to bear magnificent crop
the first season that a timely appli-
cation of the solution was made.-Me
Farmer.