The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-05-25

THE POTATO scAB.
The Old Corrosive Sublimate Remedy.
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The Old Corrosive Sublimate Remedy.
New Fungicide Formation.
The majority of farmers will use this
season the best known remedy for pota-
to scab. This old remedy consists of
soaking the seed before it is cut in a
weak solution of corrosive sublimate
for - to hours. Twelve hours will
not injure the tubers for seed, according
to correspondent of the Kansas Farm
er, who gives the following directions:
Take some sugar barrels and soak them
up we'll and put into each of them 3
gallons of water. To this add the dis
solved poison that has been prepared as
follows: Take paper buckets, put 2 gal
Ions hot water in each and add 2 ounces
of corrosive sublimate and stir thor
oughly, allowing it to stand "a hours
Strain off the liquid after the potatoes
have been soaked and use it over again,
as it is always poison.
The wet potatoes should be spread
out to dry, and all stock should be kept
away, as they will get poisoned if they
eat Of the soaked tubers. Care should
be taken to prevent the soaked seed from
coming in contact with any box, bag or
bucket that has previously had potatoes
in it, as the germs on the boxes or bags
will again infest the potatoes. The
buckets used in dissolying the liquid
can be used to drop the seed out. The
above process kills the germs on the
seed, but if the soil is already infested
by the germ the coming crop of potatoes
will also be infested. By following a
four years rotation this danger can be
avoided.
M. Minner, French scientist, has
discovered another dip that is just as
effectual He puts 81 gallons of water
in an old barrel Then IA ounces of sui
phate of copper are dissolved in warm
water and stirred in the barrel. The
seed potatoes are submerged for five
minutes only, then dried and cut. This
mixture is also poison and will kill
stock. Care should be taken to use only
paper buckets to dissolve the two above
poisons in, as, if wooden pail is used,
it might absorb enough poison to spoil
its future use, while the solution will
eat up metal pail.
Recently a new fungicide has been
discovered and is said to be thoroughly
effective and nonpoisonous. The new
substance is called formalin, a watery
solution of gas, not very expensive,
and it is rapidly coming into favor as
an antiseptic, so that it is likely to be-
come still cheaper and better known. It
is sold by the fluid ounce, and can be
obtained at most drug stores.
Rolling the freshly cut seed in -four
of sulphur has also proved to be death
| to the scab, and is said to have in
creased the yield equal to an applica-
ton Of horse manure and also added to
the keeping qualities of the new crop.
When cutting the seed by hand, cut a
bucketful of seed, put them in tub
and sprinkle handful of sulphur over
them and stir them up with your hands
until all the dry sulphur sticks that
will, then take the cut seed out and dry
sulphur left can be used again. When
cutting with machine cutter, cut into
trough and sprinkle on the sulphur
and scoop the seed over until all the
sulphur has stuck to the seed that will
adhere. When planting sulphured seed
with a machine planter, great annoy
ance will be caused by the sulphur
blowing into the eyes when planting
north and south, but this does not occur
when planting east and west or cross
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