The herald., 1895-05-19
THE RANCH AND ITS PRODUCTS

Instead OF first spraying the clover, it
may be cut first, made up into loose bales
and then dipped into the poisoned liquid
until thoroughly wet. 1t Is a matter Of
some importance that the bale be q fresh
and attractive as possible; therefore. IT
should be prepared and spread in the field
after the heat of the day and preferably
early in the evening. 1t will be perfectly
fresh and attractive. therefore. one entire
night. and if made up into little balls or
placed IN little heaps. not loosely spread
out. it will retain its virtue at least one
night more. The effect will always be in
proportion to the thoroughness with
which this batting is done; the more
numerous the traps. the greater the
chance of destroying the insects. They
will be found in the morning an inch or
so beneath the surface under the bait,
and after twenty-four hours the majority
will be dead. No plants should be set
out uEtil the poisoned bait has had an
opportunity to act for two nights at least.
4 modification of this plan may be re-
sorted to when none of tho other methods
described above have been adopted.
MIR. Oliver Parry of Beverly. N. J. in
formed me early in the season that he
had found cut worms to be very fond OF
wheat brand, and he had tried the eXper-
iment of protecting his sweet potato
plants by putting in each hill spoonful
added, and the whole moistened so as to
form soft mush. In every case this
served as complete protection to his
plants the larvae invariably preferrlng
the poisoned brand. AS Mr.. Parry was
a perfectly reliable man, and this method
had been used with some success in the
western state against grahopper anu
other insects. published it in a sug-
gestve note in the Weekly Crop. Bulletin
OF the state weather service. Many OF
the farmers to whom this came adopted
the suggestion ut once, and soon letters
were received highly recommending the
efficiency of the measure. All who trled
it found it absolutely successful and
claim that they lost not plant after u.s.
ing IT,
Mix dry wheat bran with Paris green
or London purple sucicnt to color 1T
family. The proportions are not impor i.
tant, but may be III weight aboud one o.
poison to fifty OF the bran. The mixture
should be as complete as possible, thal
eevry particle OF the bran carries its par, ar
ticle OF arsnic. and then water. should be
added to make q soft mush that can be
ladled out with spoon without drip.
ping. The water may be little sweeted
to add to the attractiveness of the mix
ture and to make it little more sticky.
A teaspoonful should be placed on each
hill of plants to be protected, and this
should be done on the evening OF the day
the plants are first set out. One or tn
other of the above methods, faithfully
carried out. should be sufficient to pre-.
vent tu5-worm injury in future.
To prevent the army worm from climb
ing trees. mix thoroughly one part glyc
crime and nine parts coal tar, with which
paint rim around the tree about three
inches wide. A piece of paper tied arount
| the treo and turned over like and inverted
| funnel will also prevent the worms IRON
climbing the tree. By this method ,
great many worms can be collected anC
| destroyed daily. The paper seems to be
the best method as it corrals the worms
and enables one to destroy them. On
large trees it Is somewhat Impractical
! to use paper, in such cases tar and glyc
crime should be used. A little poisoned
bait should be used at the base Of these
/ trees,