Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-05
THURSDAY moHNiso.
ProI Jordan UontiGues on commercial re,
tlliknrs-OOl pIOIleI's Annrssa,

o'clock and Henry NJ Englo was intro
| duced
IIc said that 10 these days among agri-
Uulturists it Ia important to know tho best
means Of destroying tho iusocts that
devastated our fruits and plants. Ono OF
tho most valuable agents in this work IL
! tho pyrCthnum, an Eastern plant, which
! grows well in California but which horo.
| tOioro was supposed to DO difficult to
cultivate in this section of tho country.
IL has however been successfully grown by
Mr.. Eli q, Rcist. The plant Ia perennial,
hardy, stands tho winter well, blossoms
luxuriautly and makes an ornamental
/ garden plant Tho mode Of using IL Ia to
take the dry ilowcr8, aud make u powder
Of them aud dust tho powder upon tho
! fruits or plants infested by insects. IL
has boon for years known as aG iusoCt
destroyer and is sold in tho stores a.
insect powder.
Mr. Reist said hc hIi grown it few
years very successfully. The plant is
ornamental, bearing pink, or white dow
ora, with ten petals, and yellow centre.
1t is not poisonous, but destroys insect
| life.
Mr.. Alfred Sharposs said great caution
should be used in tho introduction of
foreign plants. Spmo that were oarclcssly
introduced have becOms noxious and
troublesome weeds.
III "A VI l'lONlO ablI lnO plant nlu
suspicious look aud from its Appearance
would DO condemned by n Bucks county
farmer Ho agreed with Mr.. Sharpless
that great caution should bo used in in
Producing IL.
Mrs Srubbs said sd, had applied tho
Persian ins30. pDTd - . her ourrant and
gooscborry bushes ~ destroy tho currant
worm and 1t did no good. She had also
unauccCssfully applied clrbJlio aoid Sho
asked what other remedy there wa7 Tor
! these pests
Mr.. Eagle roghcl that whito holebore
was sure remedy ioc the destruction of
the currant worm. IL should DO mixed
| with lime and busted on the plants.
Mrs. Stubbs So s4o did not use the
| hccbOre because lt vas poison, and she
feared it would mlsa IA, fruit unit fog
uac.
Mr.. y. *. ulrors sN.i hc used i strong
decOc.ion Of tob4,3.tD k,ll tho ourrau,
worm. The tobacco is easily applied eul
does not affect tho plant.
| DR.. Dicke sad the white holoboro,
though poison WAS perfectly harmless
! when applied 70 thA bushes A. q powder.
His plan is TO dust tho powder on tho
plants with snlN h,lInvs.
Calvin Cooper fIy3goI tho usn ot tob4c-
o. juicc for the destruction Of tho curraut
worm l. was ollijioa' aul harmless to
|
Lecture ,u terIilirerS.
| Prof. Jordan continued his lecture on
commercial fertilG 49, Ito said tho quo7-
tiou WA of absorbing int, rest, was mat
tor Of dollars and cJuts. All plants gTowE
on the farm tltc from the soil certain OI
it's pTGpcrtieG, aui WHOM those arc exhaust
Cd they must be supplied, There are two
kinds of iurtllIzgTs used - supply
the loss thus nadc-those arc the
direct and Indirect fegtili29rs. Lime
plaster aui mIri ar1 not true fer
tili2orB thuy are 40, applied because of
any fertilzug quality they possess in
themselves, but oauSo they work over
aud make effective the fortiIizing properties
that the soil already possesses. Clover is
n good fertilizer almost Indispensable to
the farmer 1t is the scAycnger that goes
out and gathers in the plant food already
in the soil and cOnV,rtS 1t into such form
that 1t easily GCcnmp0scd, and when
l p!Owed down aud is followed by wheat,
the wheaS or other crops they readily take
up, and thrive upon II.
Prof. Jordan then described tho priu.
Giral commercial fertilizers now used
by farmers-thCs0 were South Carolina
rock, aud bono black from the sugar
> retinCTic8 both OF which contain
! largo proportions of phOsphoTc acid.
, Dissolved bone forms another popular
fertilizer. |; contains Ia addition
TO the IhOsyhor.c acid q large pro
portion Of uilTogCuuus matter. German
= potash aai Call GaupJsre aro othor good
fertilizers, containing much nOtrOgen.
Dried blood, dried and ground fish, slaugh
, tor house refuse, meat scraps etc, form
! other uitrOgenOus fertilizers. Tho value
Of q fertilizer may 10 measured By tha
. degree of It's solubhty. For general pur-
j poses tho muEiRle Of potash is the bqst,
. | but for tobacco tho SUI lpbate IL recon-
i mended
z There being tw1 hundred brands Of
fertilizers in tho market IL becomes u mat,
ter of Importance to the farmer to de teTmiEe
which he should buy These two hundred
. brands may bs divided into two classes-tGe
II. standard aud the mixed. While many of
y tho mixed brands Gr5 good ho would not
a advise iarmetB to buy them. lie would
Il advise them 70 buy dissolved South
a Carolina rock, muriate Of phosphate, nj,
o tTata Of soda and other standard articles
q in their purity, and mix them themselves.
r Farmers should co operate, purchase the
A Standard articles in largo quantities and
/ thus save large percentage of tho cost.
a Prof Jordan recommended that cattle
Il DO fed largely on cotton seed meal and
a linseed mCa ia connection with corn meal,
!. While the ,ttJn seed is at least as good
q as any other 70 ID for fattening the cattle,
4 ing valuable manure.
4 rarncrs' wivos.
n Mr.. NJ. i. Cooper read nu essay on tho
o necessity Of relieving wives Of farmers
y from care and oyarwOrk. The difficulty in
r securing good servant girls and tho greater
c difficulty of keeping them is "a great sOarco
n OF care and labor to tho farmers wives
r Tho care of tae children, tho work Of tho
It kitchen, the milking OF the cows, tho
looking after tho woodpile and hundred
- other things little in themselves, give the
a women a world Of trouble. He supgetted
# that the garden be made q truck patch
v and turned over b tho mon for cutiva
y tion. He would not have tho farmer
i board his employees and would thus save
O his wife the trouble Of providing for them
. ii. NJ. EDgle congratulated tho essayist
:. and endorsed every word ho said. especial
O ly "a regards the abolition of tho family
o garden and the substitution of tho truck
A patch.
( Thomas Baker thought II advisable TO
, have at least ono tenant house on oveTy
y. farm and thus have at hand at all times
q ono or moro reliable farm hands for farm