Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-01
NOTES.


Farmers and gardeners should commence
early in their efforts to conquer the potato
bugs They only fly early in the season, as
they come from their winter burrows, soon
losing the use of their wings. Examine the
green tops every day. Kill of and remove
all yellow eggs deposited on the under side Of
the leaves. Each bug makes a fresh deposit
every day until the litter is exhausted these
eggs soon hatch and the bugs continue TO
multiply rapidly, when Paris green should be
used.
Fruit trees should now be carefully looked
after. Lime, whitewssh or whale-oil soap
will cleanse and prevent attacks of in
sects so, also, will pure or crude car
bolic acid, mixed or diluted with ninety-five
per cent water, pure or with tar water. Be
sure to wash close to the earth, to prevent
the Judgment of borers. With this mixture
applied attacks of insects will be prevented
II and the eggs killed which are deposited on
the bark. Wood ashes deposited at the roots
of trees are highly beneficial as well as pre-
ventive against the attacks Of insects.
Vermin on fowls and about hen roosts will
leave headquarters by injecting from syringe
a weak steep in water of pennyroyal herb tea.
Drive this weak steep thoroughly over the
roosts and the poultry and il will cleanse them
from lice.
Several varieties OF flies annoy and suck
blood from horses and other animals PEN
nyroyal steep will drive them away if the an
imal is washed with it.
My experience with coal ashes leads me to
differ from the expressed views of many agri-
cultural writer's. Coal ashes, when applied
to trees or other vegetable growth, are in my
judgment a nuisance. l believe the chemical
action, produced by coal ashes, prevents the
setting of fruit and stunts the growth of trees.
They absorb the moisture that should go to
water the roots. They may be useful when
applied to the outside walls of houses, cellar
floors, or to prevent the growth of grass or
weeds, by covering pathways and the like.
This is a subject upon which the farmer and
gardener need more light
Sanitary precautions are of special impor-
lance at this season of the year. All who re-
side in low districts, either in cities, towns
or villages should give immediate attention
to the cleansing of their cellars from all de-
composing substance of every nature, vegeta-
BILE, mineral and animal. The drainage both
indoorsand out should be Immediately perfect.
ed. Water in sinks attracting the gases from
the atmosphere, often displays a greenish
poison color, in fact forming q rank poison.
1t is composed in part of the settings of the
carbonic acid gas, which floats in the atmos-
phere, and which during the heated weather
settles near the earth at night. When decom-
posing in cellars or elsewhere, cabbages,
onions, or any other vegetable containing sui
phur, give out their sulphur and thus lber-
ated it combines with the hydrogen of the
water, forming sulphurated hydrogen, very
poisonous and one of the most deadly gases.
In the out fields, other decomposing elements
may form carbonic acid gas. On rich and
low soils in hot weather, these noxious gases
produce or stimulate the attack of typhus and
yellow fevers, cholera morbus, cholera and
other terrible diseases. Physicians and scien-
lists predict more general prevalence Of
such diseases in this country during the sum
mer and fall of 1881 than usual Let every
one take warning and put his house in or
der. IS. w. Je,oett, in Am. CultiDdtOr.