The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-06-08
WILMA FARMERS CLUB.
How TO DeSIrOY InimrIOmA Insec

uoisteln calves, fine NOW of hay and in
the corn house abundant stores of corn. The
general features everywhere, were those of
neat and thrifty farmers home.
The subject for discussion, Insect Life,
seemed to interest all members. Numerous
receipts for the destruction of injurious in
sCCts were read and discussed, and the eX-
perlenCc and experiments of our members
given.
Some recent pamphlets, forwarded ON re-
quest from the Agricultural Department.
gave extended experiments with mixtures
and apparatus for spraying shade and fruit
trees. After many trials the best effects seem
to have been realized from spraying the trees
with the following mixture: London purple,
from onc-half pound to twelve ounces I;
flour three quarts, in a barrel about 40 gal
lons) water, A force pump with a spraying
nozzle was used. Paris green was also tried
but seemed 10 hayC more injurious effect
Oh the foliage; but the experience of u fruit
grower was given who preferred Paris green.
lie used about the same proportions, spray
ing the fruit trees, apples especially, soon
after The blossoms had fallen. He gave his
experience in gathering apples for the fair,
premium apples, before he commenced using
remedies, when he found himself obliged to
hunt 50 of the iAircst from all parts Of his
orchard at the expense OF great labor and
pains, TO secure five perfect ones for exhibit
ton. II is considered certain that we are
often cheated Of an abundant crop, by in
sccts that sting the very young fruit, which
afterwards withers and falls, while the fail
u!e is falsely attributed to excessive wet
or drought, when few successive sprayings
would have secured II bountiul crop. The
flour sifted into, and thoroughly mingled
with the water, saves the foliage from the too
strong action Of the poison, while at the
same time retaining it upon the leaves it
makes the effect more permanent.
\ member of the club who succeeds in
raising fine pums, pCrscverCs in shaking the
trees after the fruit has begun to form, per-
haps almost daily for some time. He did not
gather the droppings on sheets, us is gcner-
ally advised, but left this part OF the process
for the chickens. The writer, with as many
thrifty trees, perhaps, but too busy to apply
known remedies, bought fine plums of him
at preserving time, and appears here now as
IL sorry, but willing witness.
y member OF the club, Mr., Amos Il. Ilol-
lingsworth, an enthusiastic and successful
nuIsuryman and gardener, gave II valuable
receipt for discouraging the cabbage flea
that destroyer of young cabbages: Minglc
with six quarts of tobacco dust, obtained
from the tobacco warehouses or factories,
two quarts of plaster, and five eghths of
pint of turpentinc. One application is sut-
tcient till rain washes it from about the
plant To keep the ground stirred about the
plant if practicable, is Il great discourage
ment to all destructive garden insects.
The Agricultural Department, after eX-
perimenting with great many substances,
recommends for the cabbage worm, Il mix
ture of one-half ounce of gas tar, with one
pound of powdered lime. A member of the
club recommends salt as rs an ctfcctual
remedy another member had seen salt APP
piled win destructive effects TO the cabbage.
Fine air-slakcd lime was mentioned
as an excellent insccticide, and good for the
cabbage worm. Emulsons of stramonium
UhOrn applc,) tansy, uilanthus leaves, &c,
have been used with some effect.
TO discourage ants, one part CarbOic acid
with 0G of water poured into their burrows,
or sprinklcd where they are troublesome is
recommended.
A member of the club recommends carbo-
late of lime for chicken lice. II should he
scattered in their nests and about the hen
house.
The department finds that English spar
rows destroy very few insects and ut the
same time drive away other birds that would
do so.
All Ga!clplLiais anu Tti'ct marry ihstc's'
owing 1t Is supposed 10 tn9lr peculiar GoyIi-
ms "lo uls'as.u'"' y" oai"s, h''onE piius,
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our un"e'coh'e h"s'S" ''s''"is "i"s''s Gull
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urHI department csIlii'"'c Vi uainaGe lhiilc'-
c1 ny INC cninch ous III tne west Nlst year
rms loss ieIi mainly on Dakola! Nco,asNa,
Minnesota, IOWA anu Niscohsln' ABOUT
supposed to have been destroyed, besides
c c"rr n IIl Grass Thr ,n,oI damarc is nared
" SEQ Oo6 ooO AuHnnsh ibis from ,hc m.
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s"nic;antIy ;n1icntcs ibr eytent of Ills insect
,,"st /, wos LnncI that the nost scverr win.
i", ,riaIt have dcstroyrd The hroode Int
Cr',n, ,,re.ont Indications thev seem to hove
comm ,hrn,,rh nil rirhi and 9rr nrenoriug for
w. 'n,rly ongIauchi
az T r"'' ma,,c ~ torch IN burp the nests
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romrd If nF wire if IN - Ionp mole
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lost;ng torch, Agricultural Department,