Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-09-20
The Sheen Tick.

The tick is a wingless. broad. n'umn
dark red insect, about a Quarter of an
inch in length and covered with a verv
,ougn and leathery integument. 1t is
Known scientifically as Melophagus ovinus.
ne legs OF the tick are short and stout,
ana II adheres with great tenacity to the
WOOL. by means of a proboscis as long
as It's head it pierces the skin and sucks
me plood OF its victim to such an extent
Inat when numerous, they have been
known to almost entirely empty the
\ veins and deprive lamb Of lie. The
s-urait upon Tie vitality of lambs infested
with ticks is very great, and sufficient to
priest their growth altogether. To rid
the mock OF these pests is, therefore, a
necessary labor in the spring or early
hummer, and, if need be, again in the
>autumn. The easiest way is to dip both
sheep and lambs as soon as the sheen
are shorn, and again in September, in
detection OF tobacco mixed with sui
phur. Coarse plug tobacco, or tobacco
stems, which are cheaper than the
!eaves, and equally effective, are stepped
I'm water at a boiling heat, but not boiling
water at the proportion of four pounds to
twenty gallons of water. One pound of
blowers OF sulphur is then stirred into the
sSi1quld, which is brought to tempera-
tute Of 10 degrees / air.. and kept so
curing the dipping by the addition of
fresh hot liquor. While dipping the
mixture Is kept stirred to prevent the
sulphur from subsiding. The dip may
Dc conveniently placed in trough or
4 tnb large enough to allow of the INNER
1lon Of the sheep, which is taken by the
feet BY two men and plunged into the
Ii hath att the Temperature mentioned, where
n y ls held for minute or two until the
WOOL IL thorougly saturated. The ami
NAL Is then put into pen with raised
\ tIooF sloping on each side to trough in
NE middle, along which the smperabun-
Glant liquor escapes into a pail or tub
{ plat I'D to receive it, This method of
& dipping is calculated for almost any num-
3 9er. II in their struggles little OF the
should enter the nostrlls of the sheep,
40 harm will result, but the hot tobacco
S. ater u, on the contrary, often beneficial
those sheep affected with catarrh or
/ ~ Ia the head. -Neso York World
Z ect Pests Among the squashes.
81 d the squash tribe of plants are in
BY = large variety of insect pests.
t1r extreme succulcnce seems to
s f<fact ; host of sucking parasites which
- their numbers often destroy the crop
1 X render the best care of the cult
1for futile. The worst of these pests
& IT, the squash bug, which CORES into the
166k near the ground and saps the
E<aIity of the plant at its source, and
I fo small striped beetle, which in its
Y tlixe state dcyours the leaves. and in
4 NJ infancy, as a small white grub, sucks
@ho snp from the root and causes the
(]fqay and death OF the stem just below
I8 surface. These two pests are easily
& srt at safe distance by putting some
l86acco stems around the young plant
w Nv placing few corncobs stepped in
Sr0sone near the stem, or by the appli-
cxtf0n Of the well-known kerosene
SQols;on to the root. A spotted beetle
q much like s'ladybird" greenish
FELLOW in color, with twelve black spots
s. Il III wing covers, is destructive to the
|<aves aod the too familiar cutworm is
+ serious enemy to the young plants,