The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-08-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
To Destroy Cabbage Worms.

To Destroy Cabbage Worms.
From many experiments made we are
induced to discard the various appIica-
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
III the time of preparing or procuring
these applications, AS soon as the
heads form, use hot water. If any in
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 a raRid
mode for their determination. We are
often asked for the degree in tempera-
ture to which the water should be
heated. We cannot give the precise de-
gree. The watering-pot in which it is
carried will not retain a high heat long,
and the fine streams of water from the
rose are partly cooled in their passage
through the air. 1t is supposed that a
temperature of 100 degrees will kill the
worms, but greater heat is better, pro-
vided the cabbage leaves are not
scOrched. Some practice is required TO
do the work right, and the operator
may experiment on a 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-po when the
water is hot, he will give quick or in
staEtaneous dash. This will be suffi-
cient to destroy all the worms; after the
water has partly cooled, the washing
will be continued longer. The great
advantage of this treatment is that the
cabbages are left perfectly clean
Country Gentleman.
Word to Farmers SONS.
Farmers sons are quite apt to suppose
that they can only attain to any coveted
position in life through an a7enue 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. If
the farmer allows the professional man
to monopolize all the advantages at the
start, he must expect to fad himself at
a disadvantage al the way through.
Household Hints.
The New York Tribune says: G. B.
writes: Mrs. A. E. II. is informed that
for many years have kept roll butter
per ectly sweet by placing the rolls
closely but not crushed, either in q stone
or oaken vessel, the bottom of which is
first covered with clean salt, then the
whole mass Of butter is covered two or
more inches deep with brine as strong
as 5sss5 can make IL, and the vessel is
then covered tightly.
III. M. B. secures perfect immunity
from ants by using white hellebore.
This she puts around her sugar barrel
and under the papers on her shelves.
Taken into the stomach it is an irri-
tant, so it is desirable to keep it from
children. A swing shelf keeps the daily
cooked food from being infested. A
neighbor of H. M. B. keeps a pan with
a little sugar in it outside her closet
window, and while the supply lasts the
ants keep away from the closet.
To discover whether bread is adulter-
ated with alum, soak the bread in water
and to the water in which it has been
soaked add little of the solution Of
muriate of lime, upon which, if any
alum be present, the liquid will be per-
vaded with milkiness; but if the bread
be pure, the liquid will remain limpid.
Rationale-sulphuric acid has a stronger
affinity for the lime than alumina and
potassium, with which it forms alum;
it therefore quits those bodies to form
sulphate of lime with the lime of the
test, which produces the milkiness.
Don't Crowd the Fruit Trees.
In setting out fruit trees it is not un-
common to see insufficient allowance
made for their future growth; hence,
when the years have passed and the
little saplings have attained their full
size, their spreading branches almost, if
not quite, interlace, excluding needed
sunlight and air from the lower branches
cbHu tAAC AOOuS tl1bO wv hCHA
neighborhood. It has been observed
that the 10 wer branches of trees planted
in this way produce inferior fruit, while
the upper branches-receiving abun.
dance of sun and air-give fruit ofgood
quality; also. that the outer rows of
t3ese trees have finer fruit than the
inner rows. The facts teach lesson
likewise in pruning. Branches should
not be allowed to grow so thickly as TO
exclude fair share of light and all
from any part of the tree. The distance
apart the trees should be set must be
determined by the climate and by the
kind of tree; the size of even the same
variety of trees varies more or less with
the climate. Less complaint would be
heard about non-fruiting yea s if gem
erous belt of sunlight was allowed be-
tween the rows of the trees, and the soil
annually supplied sufficient food for
material to restore that used in the pro-
duction of large crops of fruit-LG,s-
caster (Pd.) Farmer.