The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-04-18

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11ent station bulletins we find that
spraying operations for this month will
include the spraying of apple, pear and
! plum trees with Bordeaux mixture half
strength, with Paris green one pound
III 100 gallons just before the blossoms
open, and again after the blossoms have
fallen.
Grapevines should be sprayed before
/ the leafbuds open with strong solu.
ton of'copper sulphate Just before
the flowers open with Bordeaux mix.
ture and Paris green, pound to 100
gallons.
Raspberry and blackberry bushes
should be sprayed with Bordeaux mix
ture half strength just before the bios
SONS open. Z
StraWberryvines should be sprayed
with Bordeaux mixture half strength
and Paris green l pound to 100 gallons
as early as possible, the Bordeaux mix.
ture without Paris green to be used
just before flowers open. Spray again
after the fruit is picked if the bed is to
be kept over, using both Paris green
and Bordeaux mixture.
The foliage of the peach is very sus.
ceptible to injury from copper solutions
which should be applied at one.third to
one-fourth the strength as used for an.
pies or pears. The peachbuds may be
protected by bending the limbs toward
the ground
THE OK MARBLE OR BOT FLY.
QUESTION 13.-Can you tell me any.
thing about the maggots which are
found along the backs of our cattle
the young ones more especially? What
causes them, and is there any preven
ton?
ANSWER 13.--We have frequently
been annoyed by the pests to which
you refer, and while they seem to occa-
sion little pain to the animal, they GER
tainly decrease the amount and quality
of the flesh and lessen the value of the
hides at least one. third.
As to their causes, habits and pre.
vention, we extract the following in.
formation from the North Carolina ex.
pertinent station:
The fly which causes this damage il
about the size and very much resem.
oles honey bee. 1t deposits its eggs
IN the spring, during the period of
shedding of hair, on the legs, tail. and
/ belly of cattle, preferably yearlings.
by licking these parts the eggs are
taken into the animals outlets where
the maggots hatch and clings to the
walls 1t soon bores into tissues and
eVentually-during the succeeding fall
or Wlnter-finds its way to the ami.
mails back where it forms tumor lust
beneath the skin. Here it rests for
some time and completes its growth as
a maggot Each tumor, if closely ex-
amined, will show a small pore.
through which the maggot obtains air.
When full grown the maggot enlarges
this pore, and through it comes out and
drops to the ground, into which it en-.
ters and remains dormant as pupa for
about six weeks. 1t then comes forth
as perfect fly to lay its eggs as before.
Notwithstanding the period of hair |
shedding, horned cattle should have |
the tail, belly and legs-especially the |
parts just above the hoofs-rubbed two
or three times week with q mixture
OF kerosene or fish oil and powdered |
sulphur.
In January and February the backs |
of cattle should be carefully examined |
for the tumors, which are readily seen
or felt just beneath the skin, and the
enclosed maggot squeezed out and |
killed. A little crude carbolic acid or
mercurial ointment should be then
rubbed on the spot. If the maggot
cannot be squeezed out, the oil or ONT
ment should be well rubbed in, so as to
close up the breaking pore in the tu-
NOR, thus smothering the maggot.
The MARBLE fly is not great traveller
and if all the maggots infesting cattle
on any farm are killed in January or
February, that farm will be nearly or
quite free from the parasite for some
years, unless introduced with new
stock. Killing the maggots in the tn.
mors is the easiest and surest way of
getting rid of this EXPENSIVE intruder |