The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-21

SULPHUR, SALT AND LIME.
Lime. so pounds; sulphur. % pounds:
salt. is pounds; water to make 100 gal
Ions. Take Is pounds of lime and 25
of sulphur, and boil with 20 gal
Ions of water for about two hours, when
the sulphur should be dissolved and the
LIQUID of a deep amber color. While
boiling, the liquid should be frequently
stirred.
Slack the rest of the lime into another
cask, using preferably hot water. and
while it is boiling add the salt, and stir
until it is dissolved. Then add this to
the lime and sulphur solution in the
boiler, and boil for another half hour.
after which water sufficient to make the
100 gallons is to be gradually added. stir
ring meanwhile.
In spraying, use a pump with an agi-
tator so that the solution is kept con-
stantly stirred. This wash is to be used
only when the leaves are off the trees.
RESIN SOLUTION.
Summer Formula-Resin, 20 pounds
crude caustic soda, pounds: fish OIL
2k pints; water to make 100 gallons.
Winter Formula-Resin, 80 pounds;
pints; water to make 100 gallons.
Place the resin, soda and oil in a ket-
tie, cover with three or four inches of
water and boil two hours or more. when
the substance will be dissolved, and the
mixture resembles black molasses. Add
the rest of the water, preferably warm,
gradually to the mixture stirring mean
while.
The summer formula is useful for
plant lice, young scale insects, etc.
The winter formula gives excellent
results, where not wet too often by
rains, as a winter spray for scale in
sects.
WHALE-OIL SOAP.
Simple solutions of this substance Of
varying strength are fatal to many in
sects. L. o. Howard found that solu-
ton of two pounds to one gallon of wa
ter was fatal when applied as a winter
wash to the San Jose scale, one of the
most difficult insects to kill.
PYRETHRUM OR BUHACH.
This is a fine yellow powder, having a
pungent odor, made from the flowers of
a chrysanthemum-l plant. While
deadly to most insects it is perfectly
harmless to man. 1t is much better
fresh, as in time it loses the volatile oil
on which it's insecticide qualities de-
pend. For this reason Buhach. a brand
made by the Buhach Manufacturing
Company. Stockton, Cal, is to be pre-
ferred. 1t may be used by busting over
the plants, first diluting with four times
it's bulk of -four In this case the mix
ture should be kept in tight jar day
or two when the entire mass will be
nearly as good as the pure powder. Or
it may be applied as a liquid spray. us
ing one ounce Buhach to three gallons
of water. Buhach costs about so cents
pound, whilh prevents it's more eXtenl
sive use. 1t is used mainly for cabbage
insects, or wherever there may be dan
ger from using a poisonous insecticide.
HELLEBORE.
This substance comes in the form of a
finely ground white powder, selling foI
about 60 cents pound in quantities. II
is similar in it's action to Buhach, and is
especially useful against the cherry
slug. Use dry, diluted with four or five
times it's bulk of -four; or as a watery
solution, using one ounle of the helle'
bore to fonr or five gallons of water.
CARBON BISULPHIDE.
This is a heavy, ill-smelling liquid
the vapor of which is quickly fatal to al
life. 1t is very explosive. and must b'
kept away from the fire or from any
other flame or spark.
! 1t has been used with much success
! for such subterranean insects as bOrers
| cabbage maggots and the root form O
the woolly aphis.
To use it for such insects, punch small
holes in the ground a foot or so deel
near the roots of the affected plants
and pour a small quantity of the liquit
in each, afterwards covering the hole
with earth. The Vapor penetrate
through the soil and kills the insects
Large quantities of it must not be used
as it also destroys plant life.
INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE.
1t is sometimes desirable to spray 70
both insects and fungus diseases at tn
same time This can he done in tn
case of biting insects by adding on
pound of Paris green or London purpl
to 200 gallons of the fungicide known a
Bordeaux mixture.
Bordeaux mixture is best made by tn
following formula: Copper sulphat
(bluestone), 6 pounds; fresh lime,
pounds; water, 80 gallons.
First dissolve the bluestOne in 30 gal
Ions of water. This is more easily don
if the bluestone is suspended in the wa
ter in a piece of coarse cloth or sackin9
Slack the lime carefully in a small guam
tity of water, slowly adding enough @
the latter to make a creamy liquid. The
pour this slowly into the bluestone sc
luton.
If properly made the mixture wi
have a deep sky-blue color.
A very convenient test for Bordeau