Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-21

Spring calves; and your Fall and Win
ter ealving COWS will average more
milk per year than those calving in
the Spring. If you have no portable
creamery see if you can't make your
old buggy last another season and in
vest the money a new one would cost
IN good creamery churn. with no
dash) and butter-worker. If your
wife is row handling a score or two of
heavy crooks every day, few months
use of creamery will strengthen her
back about fifty per cent, and she will
give you buckwheat cakes oftener next
Winter, and have them baked Just the
shade Of brown you like. And then,
II you use modern dairy fixtures. it
Will enable You to make more aud bet
ter Lutter from the same number of
cows; Your butter will bring a better
price, and Your wife viii live longer.
Better examine the old buggy and see
II 1t can't be fixed up" to run another
season. Next try and fence off
lot for a calf pasture; calves do better
II they have lot by themselves aud do
not run with the older animals. Make
up your mind to write to your paper
and give its readers the benefit of any
thing you have proved to be good by
your own experience.
Cabbage Destroyers.
The New Jersey Agricultural Col
lege Experiment Station has issued a
bulletin with an account of the insects
which feed on the cabbage, prepared
by George d. Hulst-a plainly written
account of the careful experiments
performed for destroying these depre-
dators. The insects figured and de-
scribed are the white cabbage butter
fly and its larva and the cabbage
pLuStd, besides cut-worms, cabbage
aphis and cabbage root dy. The white
butterfly is commonly seen in the day
time lowering about cabbages, laying
its eggs mostly on the undersde of the
leaves, and Matching in from five to
eight days into the green caterpillar.
The piatSta is darker in color and fly
ing in the night is rarely seen. The
larva has something of the character
of Il measuring worm. 1t is larger
and longer than the butterfly larva,
and is less hairy. Some years they
are scarce, in others they are more
numerous and destructive than all
others. The eggs are mostly laid on
the upper surface of the leaves, where
hot water will reach and destroy them.
OF the many remedies tried for the
destruction of these caterpillars the
three which stand at the head for
efficiency are hot water, pyrethrum,
and kerosene emulsion. Other rem
edies are of little use. When the
temperature of the water is above 100
degrees the plants are scalded; when
below 140 degrees the insects are not
killed. Between these two points the
remedy is efficient.
Pyrethrum is safe and perfectly eff
fective, if fresh. when mixed with
from six to twelve parts of plaster, or
fifteen to twenty of air-slaked lime.
Or pyrethrum powder, Il tablespoonful
to six or eight quarts of water, an
swers well. and also destroys plant
lice when sprinkled on the plants.
Kerosene emulsion (made as recon.
mendeG in the Country Gentleman on
former oecasions,) diluted with twelve
parts of water, is thoroughly effective.
Its odor also acts as repeliant, by
preventing the butterflies from laying
their eggs on plants so treated.
No good remedy has been found for
plant lice, but pyrethrum powder APP
piled with a hand bellows, has been
found most ef1icacious. The cabbage
root fly may be killed with weaker
solution of kerosene emulsion, or one
part to fifteen of water, the roots at
planting being dipped in it, and twice
afterward enough poured around the
plant to wet the soil an inch. The
roots being more tender than the
leaves, a weaker solution must be
used.