Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER
The Folly of Wasting Time with Poor
Glass of Stock,
PROFIT ONLY IN THE GOOD BREEDS
Cut Worms and How Best To Deal
With Thcm-The Cuddiing Moth
Bee Culture Feeding
Young Chickcfs.
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or all the mistakes made by farmers none
are more serious than giving time and money
to the care of scrub stock. 1t is terrible
mistake and habit that Is enormously difli-
cult to shake Off Fifty years have gone by,
nearly two generations of human existence,
since the Missouri valley below Omaha was
first peopled by white inhabitants and occu-
pied by tame herds in place of the buffalo,
and still we may find hundreds of cattle that
belong to what is termed the scrub stock,
not paying for the care and money invested
in them. Why do the farmers persist in
holding to such inferior breedsl Farmers
would better reduce their herds to one-fourth
their numbers which, with the same amount
of money invested and with one-fourth the
labor, would return them double profits,
There is always demand for the best, and
with the short-horns, Galloways, Polled
Angus, Red Poll. Hereford, Swiss, West
Highlander, Devon and Holstein to select
from, the fancy of every farmer or stock
raiser can be suited and his income largely
increased. The men who hang to the scrubs
are often those who complain most of hard
times and curse the government instead of
correcting their own mistakes.
CUT WORMS.
We have not yet conquered the brown
coats, but progress is being made. We have
learned that proper rotation of crops is not
only help to the Soil, but an enemy to tho
cut worms prosperity. After the worms
have come, however, some other methods
must be applied, and the copperas remedy is
now the one generally recommended. But
there are many other remedies. With stick
punch hole into the ground about three
inches deep near the plant, into which the
worm, when he comes out to feed, will fall
and starve. Saturate punches of fresh clover
with Paris green or London purple and strew
it about the plants. The worms will feed on
1t and die. Tomatoe, cabbage and other plants
may be protected by enclosing them with stiff
paper or an old tin can with both heads
knocked out pressed into the earth an inch
or more. To kill the cut worms and stop their
propagation 1T is necessary to fallOw ploW the
meadow or grass land before September Most
cut worm moths lay their eggs in the late
summer or early fall, and these meadow or
grass lands broken up and planted in corn
are the localities where the principal trouble
with cut worms occurs. After breaking these
lands in the latter part of August it is neces-
Sary to harrow, or otherwise continue to
stir the soil as to break up the security of
the deposited eggs. 1t rather strange fact
that pastured meadow or grass lands when
broken up for corn, donot produce cut worms.
At least this is the case in north Missouri
and southern iowa and probably the same
holds good in other sections.
THE CUDDLTNG MOTH.
The cuddling moth is busy at this time of
the season stinging the little apples and de-
posting its eggs. 10 destroy this insect
take landon purple one pound to 100 gallons
of water, or paris green, one pound to l40
gallons of water, and with force pump or
large syringe throw the water over the apole
trees. The object is to get drop of the
water to enter the blossom end of the apple
and thereby destroy the eggs of the moth
A promiscuous spraying will not save all the
apples, of course, because the water will not
enter all of them; but most of them may be
saved if the spraying is applied before the
weight of the apples bends the twig, point
ing the blossom end of the apple downward
so that the water cannot enter it. Where Il
few favorite apples are wanted, entirely free
from the stings of these insects, they can be
saved later in the season by taking them in
detail and filling the blossom end with the
poisonous solution. This poison will not
damage the apples. They will rather relish
the physic.
ABOUT BEES.
One of the difficulties in bee raising is the
foul brood which sometimes materially in
jures the young broods. 1t appears to be a
souring of young Larvae. The caps over the
cells become sunken, peculiar odor, like
that of old glue, is produced, and when the
cells are opened dark stringy mass of Shiny
matter, putrid and coffee colored, is found
AS a remedy the bees must be transferred to
new clean hives
The care of bees and production of honey
when rightly understood, may be made both
profitable and pleasant.