The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-01-20
FARM INSTITUTE WORK.
San Jose Scale--Pea Louse--Care OF
Hogs.

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 ''lnsect
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 it 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
vaseline and all the rest. This is quite
as expensive as kerosene, and dealers are
ant to fill the order with reduced oil or
stfuel oil" This, Emmor Roberts said,
is not only without the gasoline and ben
zine and the rest, but has been treated
with sulphuric acid, and then imperfectly
with soda to neutralize the acid, makingit
not only inferior, but injurious,
e'But," said Dr. Smith, "dont 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 dom 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
H. - M
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 Bor-
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 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 Is,
the time it may be looked for.
For the cabbage caterpillar last season
the bran and Paris green spread for the
a,.1 ,ror,, ,nro.,aJ nffaotiva
Fer potato bugs green arsenoid was
preferable to Parish green. Prof. Rice
endorsed this, using it, copper sulphate
and as spray. Put on when the bugs
are just Matching it takes but little to do
the work. A good rain will not wash it
off.
Professor Robertson, in 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 in bare
skin from his babyhood. Never an ami
NAL lives within bare 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 go 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 will stand as intense cold
as any animal, but if there be draught
across him goodbye to all profit.
''The sleeping place should be reason :
ably dry and reasonably warm A &C.
ment floor, covered six inches with earth,
is good. There should be slant towards
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 thicknesses of paper
between. This precaution will save from
rheumatism.
sin winter provision should be made t.
let the SOW swallow good deal of soil
Every breeder who has tried pulling up
stack of sods in the fall and feeding then
to the sows in the winter will keep up thu
practice 1t will often prevent the crav
ing which makes the SOW eat her young
and is better than medicine.
s'The breed to keep depends upon tn,
management and the market, and a recog
milton of these two things will make any
one breed pay as well as another. \ X
Let the owner give the pig treatment tina
will form in him correct habits of behay
ior. Even pig is susceptible enough t,
reflect good many qualities of its owner
IF you find man who is precise and or.
derby in his methods, whose pigs are al
ways fed at certain hour and bedded a
a certain time, those pigs will also have
peculiar punctuality of behavior. But, i
everything goes in a haphazard way the pi;
will have the same unhappy -go-lucky wan
of curl on his tail The kind of food an,
nourishment affects his behavior and hi
temper, just as man food affects him.
An Eye to Business.