Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-06-16
Coal Oil on Trees.

CONDENSED from Farmers Review stem:
ographic report of Illinois State Horti-
cultural Convention.)
Some one asked If the scale on the
leaves in the fall would affect the trees
the following year. Prof. Davenport
said: The scale will die, for in the
spring it must be attached to some
thing from which it can draw food.
AS it cannot change its position, when
attached to a dry leaf it must die, as
there are no juices there to sustain it.
Mr.. Morrill, Michigan has been
passing laws in regard to the. scale
and has given the inspector full power
to destroy all trees that are infested.
At one place he found an oak infested,
and he had it promptly burned. Now,
as to use of oil on trees. A year ago
at this convention we heard men tell
of pouring coal oil on trees and not
hurting them, and it looked as if it
were not harmful. Some time after
that we got an order for special noz-
zles made very small and that could
be used for spraying with coal oil. We
made them so small that they would
only throw mist. We wrote the
people that had ordered them that we
believed they would kill every tree
sprayed with kerosene. They replied
that it did not make much difference,
as the trees were no good as they were,
and they would try the kerosene any,
way. saw man from that locality
recently and he said they had killed
10000 peach trees by the spray.
Mr.. Hobbs-There is much differ
ence in trees about that. Peach trees
will not stand coal oil; but apple trees
will stand spraying with kerosene If
the air be dry.
Kerosene on Plants.-Prof. John B.
Smith, state entomologist of New Jer-
sey, says in the New Jersey Horticul-
tural Report: I feel safe now in rec
ommending kerosene, provided we I'M
derstand that it is to be put on in the
very finest possible spray and no more
used than absolutely necessary to wet.
To show what I mean, say, that with
an atomizer holding one pint 1 cover
ed completely pear tree in full foil
age. ten feet in height, and with
diameter through the branches of fully
five feet. Every part was wet and wet
thoroughly. In fact, there was even
more used than was actually neces-
sary; but at the rate of cents a gal
lon for kerosene this makes the ap-
plication cost just 1 cent for material.
This is cheaper than you can do with
whale oil soap or any similar mate
rial. The whale oil soap will kill the
San Jose scale. There is no question
about that. Cut whale oil soap is not
so penetrating as kerosene and will
not get into the crevices.
Shying in Horses.-A recent writer
gives an ingenious explanation for the
habit of shying in horses. Shying, he
states, is relic of valuable ances-
trail instinct. The wild horse feared
few enemies when out on the plains,
where speed was his protection. But
every bush or tuft of long grass might,
and often did, contain a fierce foe ly-
ing in ambush. Many time must the
wild horse have saved his life by a
sudden swerve and leap in the oppo-
site direction the moment he heard
the rustic of the leaves. In this way
the habit of shyness in horse is a
relic of the instinct of his ancestors.
Dried Brewers Grain.-Dried Brew
ers' grain is the kiln dried residue
from beer manufacture. It consists of
some of the starch, together with the
hulls, germ and gluten of the barley
A small portion of the gluten and the
larger part of the starch are removed
from the barley by the action of dis
taste and yeast.
Fence as little as possible, but much
fencing is necessary when system of
rotation is followed that includes the
pasture.
If marriage wasn't lottery the law
miqht not intarfare in so many cases,