The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-01-20
FARM INSTITUTE WORK.

FARM INSTITUTE WORK.
San Jose Scale--Pea Louse--Care OF
Hogs.
Institute work for January of the New
jersey State Board of Agriculture began
at Moorestown on the I'd instant. DIR.
John B. Smith read paper on Insect
Problems. He said he had additional ev-
dence to give of the effectiveness of crude
petroleum against the San Jose scale IN
New Jersey, and used in the winter 1t does
not iniure the trees But he means crude
petroleum, just as it is pumped out Of the
ground. with its benzine and gasoline and
yaseline and all the rest This is quite
as expensive as kerosene, and dealers are
apt to FIJI the order with reduced oil or
stfuel oil. y This, Emmor Roberts said,
is not only without the gasoline and ben
zine aud the rest, but has been treated
with sulphuric acid, and then iniperfectly
with soda to neutralize the acid, making 1t
not only inferior, but injurious,
ssBut. said Dr. Smith, ''don I spray
unless necessary, unless something is to be
gained by it. For one reason it costs
money, and for another because it inter
feres with the foliage Spraying is alb
normal. The good Lord don't provide
anywhere for washings of oil, arsenic and
the other things.
The San Jose scale he termed "a mis-
cradle creature; has no good qualities ex-
eept it may be making farmers give their
trees some little attention. Certifeated
stock had brought San Jose scale with
them. Certificates dated in July were Is
sued too early to tell whether nursery
stock is infected-September is early
enough.
His latest idea in spraying Is to add to-
bacco to the whale oil soap and the Dor
deaux MIXTURE Boil pound of tobacco
in two gallons Of water and use the water
for diluting the soap or making the mix
ture. Mr.. Good, the Philadelphia whale
oil soap maker, was adding tobacco to the
preparation, adding greatly to its effective
ness.
The pea vine louise, so destructive last
year. DR.. Smith said was a brand-new
species. There is no remedy where field
crops are attacked, as the delicate foliage
of the pea would be destroyed by any of
the contact poisons it would pay to use.
The only relief is to plant no peas that
are not to be harvested before June 10,
the time it may be looked for.
For the cabbage caterpillar last season
the bran and Paris green spread for the
cut worm proved effective.
For potato bugs green arsenoid was
preferable to Parish green. Prof. Rice
endorsed this, using 1t, copper salphate
and as a spray. Put on when the bugs
are Just Matching it takes but little to do
the work. A good rain viii not wash it
off.
Professor Robertson, in a recent ad-
dressed before the Dominion (Canada)
Swine Breeders Association and the farm
ers' institute teachers upon the production
ofpork, said in part Consider the hog,
how he grows, and he grows 10 bare
skin from his babyhood. Never an ami
NAL lives within bale skin that does not
need clothing or shelter You have the
COW, the horse and the dog with hair;
they require much less shelter than the
pig. But the farmer has thought that the
pig with no natural shelter did not require
any artificial shelter The pig left shell
terless will 90 back as quickly as is posi-
BILE to the Wild hog condition, and let his
owner feed him for the sake Of having a
pig around the place. Even in a mild
climate where pigs go wild they run in the
sheltering forests, and are not exposed to
winds. How much less should bred up
pig that has lost its bristles and had its
skin made thin be exposed. In my judg
ment the greatest drawback to profit max
ing is want of sufficient shelter in cold
weather A pig viii stand as intense cold
as any animal, but if there be a draught
across him goodbye to all profit.
''The sleeping place should be reason
ably dry and reasonably warm. 4 &C.
ment floor, covered six inches with earth,
is good There should be slant towards
a gutter under the trough For bedding
straw is best. If the walls are of stone
they should be double, with space be-
tween to prevent the inside section from
becoming too cold. If of wood they should
be double with two thieknesses of paper
between. This precaution viii save from
rheumatism.
SIN winter provision should be made to
let the sow swallow good deal of soil.
Every breeder who has tried pulling up a
stack of sods in the fall and feeding them
to the sows in the winter viii keep up the
practice. 1t viii often prevent the cray
ing which makes the SOW eat her young,
and is better than medicine
The breed to keep depends upon the
management and the market, and a recog-
milton of these two things will make any
one breed pay as well as another. x x =
Let the owner give the pig treatment that
will form in him correct habits of behaxr
ior. Even a pig is susceptible enough to
refect good many qualities of its owner.
IF you find man who is precise aud or
DERBY in his methods, whose pigs are al
ways fed at certain hour aud bedded at
a certain time, those pigs will also have
peculiar punctuality of behavior. But, if
everything goes in haphazard way the pig
will have the same unhappy go-lucky want
of curl on his tail. The kiad of food and
nourishment affects his behavior and his
temper, just as man food affects him.
An Eye to Business.
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