The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-04-01

that fruit culture and Bookkeeping
.,ught to go hand in hand" The
nonsense ABOUT bees eating fruit, and
spelling the profits OF the pear and
grape grower, has been believed
about long enough. 1t can be safely
asserted that honey bees do not
trouble fruit unless it has first been
attacked and the skin puuctured by
wasps or birds, and their aid as a fer
tiliZing agent is almost indispen-
sable.
We shall not have reached the
linn of the profitable extension OF
our wOOl-HrO wing industry until we
have produced every sort OF wool that
is required in our domestic manufac-
lures. Substantially, all the woods
that are now used by American car
pet manufacturers come from abroad.
They are chiefly long, coarse woods,
aud come from Russia, Asia Minor,
Persia, India and South America.
They are grown, of course, under the
most inexpensive natural conditions,
often by people not far removed from
barDari5m and whose modes OF life do
not require much for their susie
nance. 1t is true that we do not
number this class OF people among
our American sheep farmers, but we
production, and the market at our
very doors, which should more than
offset this single lack.
With view to determining how
best to protect cucumbefs, squashes
and melons from the common and
troublesome striped bug which in
tests them, numerous substances
supposed to be obnoxious to them
were tried at the Ohio Experiment
Station last year. The best success
was attained by the use of tobacco
powder, the refuse OF the cigar factO-
ries. A number OF barrels of this
substance were obtained at a cigar
factory. \ shovelrul of the powder
was brown on each hill. The first
application was made to so hills June
Il. Rains coming soon after, it was
repeated June II, Is and II. The re-
suit was excellent. The beetles
seemed to dislike working in the
tobacco, and the plants on all the
hills so treated came through in good
condition. Aside from its value as
an insecticide, the tobacco acts as Il
mulch and fertilizer. Chemical
analysis shows its market value as a
fertilizer to be about SO ton.
In many OF the States the laws are
ample which have for their object
the prevention OF the spread Of nox-
iOus weeds, but they are very rarely
well enforced. There ought to be no
need of laws to regulate this matter,
but the intelligence and public
spirit OF all land owners should be
upon it, and should be
to effectually control it.
Many a neighbOrhOOd has become In
tested with wild carrot, Canada this
tie and the like merely on account of
the negligence of those who should |
have been most Interested in their |
Land owners who have !
not yet suffered from this cause can |
hardly realize how much these and |
weeds add to the labor of cultivation !
when they once get firm hold. In I
many places they have become so Sc !
rlOuS nuisance as to seriously de- |
preciate the value of farm land. Pre-
in this matter is better than |
a cure, and to accomplish it farmers
should be extremely careful to see
that no Weed seeds are sOwn with any
crop. Destroy all that come up, at
once, and thus prevent them from
becoming thoroughly established,
aud, il you are so unfortunate As to
have land already tested, cultivate
some hOed crop until they are Who'll
y eradicated.
y correspondent has asked us if
merely grinding bone, without mix
ng it with any other substance, will
make Of it a valuable fe.tiliz;ug ma
erial. Yes, ground lone contains.
)nt only in slowly available form,
he mineral element that is s"arcest
II the soil and which is ALWAYS
leeded in producing grain crops, but
II order to make this phosphate more
valuable it is commonly treat ed with
ulphuric acid. This reduces 1t to a
inc powder, but at the same time
arge part OF the bone is converted IN
0 sulphate Of lime, or, In .,,iaIn En-
fish, common land pJsster' In this
ase the phtRsphate is made easiIY
oluble, but1t does not remain so,