The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-17

ter. barn yards, hog pens and the like the
ammonia dissolves the plaster, thus free
ing the sulphur from the lime, and In doing
so Immediately unites with the sulphur
and forms the sulphate OF ammonia, one
OF the most valuable fertilizing agents
known.
In conversing some time ago with one
of the best farmers OF our country on the
value of land plaster for growing clover,
he remarked that by the use OF 100 pounds
of plaster to the acre he usually obtained a
ton more hay to the acre. Now, according
to this, the increase in hay on a twenty
acre field. say $40 per ton, would amount
to 500 at a cost OF about a ton OF plaster.
When first applied after sowing the clover
seed in the spring. the usual method is to
sow thereon about a bushel OF plaster to
clover is a year or more old. Il is better to
the acre. In all other cases, where the
clover is a year or more old. II Is better TO
postpone sowing the plaster until the
clover is somewhat advanced; quantity
the same as before.
After the first crop is gathered great
benefits VIII result from a second applica-
ton of say fifty pounds to the acre for the
second or seed crop.
Tar Water.-Insects seem to have their
likes and disllkes as well as human be-
ings, and a substance of odor that Is
agreeable TO one species may be very Of
fensive, and even destructive. to another.
We have tried various insecticides for the
common green cabbage worm, but found
none to work as well as tar water, and
this does not In any way injure tho cab
bages, and all traces of the odor Of tar
are washed away by the first shower. TO
make the tar water. put quart or two
of common coal tar I'm an old tin or
wooden pan and set II on the bottom OF
ls.,. 81 .tN sN..l.s - "a a
up with water. Let 1t stand out In the
sun for "A day or two, and the water will
become tmpregnated with the odor OF tar,
and ready for use. Apply In the evening,
with a waterlng-pot with a fine hose, IN
order to distribute the liquid over the
entire head of the cabbage. When the
water has been used fill up the barrel
again. for two quarts of tar will last
TO make number OF barrels OF tar water
strong enough TO kill the cabbage worms.
AS there are several breeds OF this CAB
bage pest, you may have to apply the
tar water as each appears; but In dry
weather n little extra watering of the
plants win prove very beneficial.
Tomato Anaiysis.-In a recent bulletin
Prof. Bowman OF the Virginia expert
mental station gives the following analy-
sis of ripe tomatoes:
water ..''........s..'......,.... 1888
Dry matter Observation-Disclosures. 666
hlg HidAliI Nbiaiolo VI Tue lOliOW-
ing:
Ash ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S37
AT 4b9
Albuminoids protein) ...................l0H
CRUDE nber OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
CaIDo-hyuIatcs ..s.'...s......s........ .50D
Also the partial following analysis OF
the vines Just after they cease bearing:
Eighteen hundred vines had been set on
an acre and we're found to average lit
tie oven two pounds. each, roots not
counted. The $500 pohhds Of green vines
per aero contain approximately the fol-
lowing manural elements:
Pounds
Phosphoric acid ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $40
II Is hardly necessary to suggest that
the vines should be given to the land
over 50 worth of valuable element is
embraced in the above. After the vines
are through bearing burrows should be
opened and the vines cut off or pulled up
and tramped into the burrows and COW
cred with soil.
Propagation by CuttinRs.-There are but
few perennial plants that may not be
propagated by cuttings OF some sort or
in some manner, With the majority cut
tings from the stems, If properly treated,
will form roots and produce new plants.
few. notably some varieties of Begonia,
Gloxinas and a few OF the Gnaphaliums
are most readily propagated from the
leaves, which are treated as ordinary stem
cuttings, after having been detached
from the parent plant with the entire
footstalk attached. other plants are null
tiplied by cuttings from the roots. The use
of root cutting, to judge from many works
on propagation, is much less common in
Europe than In our own country, where
this method is exclusively employed for
raspberries and blackberTies Unlike the
stems, roots do not have regular buds,
but they can be, under proper conditions,
made to produce them. Hence In making
root cuttings much time is required after
placing them under proper conditions for
the formation of these forced buds.
As a rule, the cuttings should be made
in autumn and from roots about the size
of lead pencil. These should be cut in
lengths of two or three inches, and packed
in boxes of SOFT moist earth, In which
drainage has been arranged as for grow
ing plants, covered closely and buried In
a well drained place. In the spring fib-
rous roots will be found to have started
and one or more buds to each root, and
they are ready TO transplant In the open
ground where they will make strong
plants the first season.
This method Of propagation has a much
wider application than is generally sup
posed, and may be tried with reasonable
prospect of success with all plants of
which the stems do not root readily