The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-23
The Scrip Hook.

uoing more damage than ever H IL
Clarke writes that last year these bugs
even ate winter squashes until they all
decayed, causing a loss of the crop. and
have reports OF this dread pest being
quickly, thoroughly and quite cheaply
exterminated by fumes Of sulphide OF
carbon, or fuma. Manipulating seems to
De the most common practiced method
or destroying the adult Insect. The bugs
are rather sluggish during the cooler
hours OF the day. and this is the best
time to collect them. Kerosene emul-
sion will destroy the young insects, but
has little effect on the adults. Paris
green does no good because the insect
does not bite its food. but sucks n
through its tube-like proboscis from be-
meath the epirdermis OF the plant The
bugs Will collect under pieces of boards
during the night, and may be trapped in
Growing Celery. -Tomato Rot.-Wul
celery grow just as well sown where II is
to remain and thinned out as when
transplanted? Why are SO many of our
tomatoes rotting this year? Is II well to
plant them on the same ground more than
one year in succession?
Reply by 7. Greiner-Cclery plants when
once started in good soil, properly thinn-
ed and well titled, will do as we'll as when
transplanted. The trouble Is In getting
them started properly. II takes Just as
much labor and effort to start q row Of
seedlings and thus raise thousands of
plants for transplanting into newly and
well prepared soil, as to start the same
row, containing the compare lively few
plants it is to retain, directly from seed.
Your plan simply involves too much la
Dor. As to rotting Of tomatoes, you will
md that they rot more freely In wet
weather than in dry weather, more freely
where vines are close and thick than
where they make only moderate amount
of foliage. Set the plants far enough apart
in moderately fertile SOIL and thus allow
the air to circulate freely among them
or train them to trellis or support of some
kind. Change location Of the plants every
year. p. Farmer.
Restoring the Wasted Soil of the South
American Agricuturist.-One can but adj
mire the tremendous efforts which nature
puts forth in the upland region of North
ern Virginia and other similar localities on
the South Atlantic slope to restore the fer
tility of the soil by reclothing the once
naked hillsides with luxuriant growth of
young pines. as well as with deciduous
trees and plants. The fertility of the soil
was not destroyed in a moment, nor is IL
likely that it will be restored by any mira
culous process Nature has her own way
of restoring to the earth what has been
taken from IL. The evil effects of more
than a century Of reckless cultivation can
not be remedied in short period.
In the process of restoration, humus, or
vegetable mold, plays most important
part. This substance Is formed by the ac-
tion of the air on solid animal or vegetable
matten The common earth worm also aids
in bringing about the desired result The
capacity Of the soil for absorbing and re-
tanning moisture is largely due to the
amount of humus II contains. The con-
slant aim should therefore be to increase
the quantity of it. This can best be done
by blowing under green crops, or partly
feeding them down during the hottest
weather late in the summer This plan, II
followed by a judicious rotation of crops
as well as of fertilizers, Will eventually
restore the needed clements Of fertility
Flea BeetlesLThe i'll results of the
blight are often very greatly aggravated
by the simultaneous attacks Of the flea
beetle. This is another serious enemy of
fight. Superficial observers sometimes
confound the work of this insect with
blight The two are easily distinguished.
The beetles puncture the leaf over it's en-
tire surface, as If punctured with a nee
die. If the weather is cool and moist
and therefore favorable to growth of foil
age, and the beetles are present in mod
crate numbers only, the plant, although
deprived Of some of its juices, may sur
vive, and perhaps recover entirely But
If the beetles come in large numbers and
the weather Is hot and dry, evaporation
from the punctured leaves will be so fast
that the leaf and finally the whole plant
may entirely die down in short order. /
wish that / were able TO point out a sure
preventive of these beetle attacks, but /
know of none. Spraying Bordeaux mix
ture has been found to give some relief
Evidently il is disagreeable to the bee
ties, but when they are hungry they will
take their potato Juice no matter how
Favored, whether with lime, tobacco dust
or tea, Bordeaux mixture, or anything
else l know of.-Exchange.