The Grit-advocate., 1904-02-12
Care of Fruit Trees.

1t is now time 10 get out into the or
| chard and swipe the trees with winter
washes to kill the eggs and nits of in
| sects SO destructive in the growing
season The rough bark should be
scraped off, after which apply one of
the following washes Winter resin
| wash: Resin, thirty pounds. caustic so
da. seventy-five per cent. nine pounds;
| fish oil four and half pints. and suffi-
cient water to make 100 gallons. Boil
the resin. soda and oil until thoroughly
dissolved. Then boil for three hours.
| during which time hot water should be
added slowly so as not to stop the boil
ing, until the whole is diluted to fifty
gallons The other fifty gallons may
then be added cold The resin wash is
valuable in destroying scale insects
in dry seasons and root lice. root mag
gots and white grubs. The lime, salt
and sulphur mixture for washing trees
is made by using unslaked lime fifty
pounds, sulphur twenty-five pounds.
stock salt eighteen pounds. and
water to make 100 gallons. Put the
sulphur and one-half the lime in TWEEN
ty-five gallons of water and boil until
| the sulphur is thoroughly dissolved.
Mix the remaining lime with the salt
| and sake with water. and then add
this to the lime and sulphur mixture
and boil for another hour, when the
whole can be diluted to 100 gallons
| with water. Strain before using, and
apply during winter only. 1t is nee
essary to scrape off all rough bark and
clean out the forks Of the trees and
limbs In lieu of anything better.
thoroughly wash the trunks and large
limbs with whale oil soap and water
three-fourths of a pound of the former
to a gallon of the latter-with pound
of Red Seal concentrated lye added to
each fifteen gallons of water Some
growers like Captain Rockafellow
make it as strong as one pound to nine
gallons of water-Field and Farm.
| Rangemen in Colorado all report cat
tie doing fine and nothing to worry
them but the low prices.
| Stockmen are all watching the war
situation with interest. If war actual
| " comes, it will give all food products
a big boost and live stock should feel
| it.
| The Arizona experiment station rec
ords the results of cold winter rain on
| the milk flow of the station herd. The
cows were exposed three days to cold
rain. During this time they decreased
| thirty-seven per cent. in milk yield
| and continued until it reached fifty per
cent and it was a month until they
| gave as much milk as before the storm.
This is what might be called cash IL
| lustration of the value OF shelteiing
COWS from cold weather.
The alfalfa mash is an excellent side
dish for the poultry menu in midwin-
| ter Take two parts of finely cut al
falfa. two parts of bran and middlings
and one part Of corn meal Cook the
alfalfa in as much kater as will make
the quantity of mash needed of proper
consistency-about five gallons of
water to each peck of cut hay. While
boiling stir in the corn meal or chop,
| making thick mash. and add bran,
mixing thoroughly, to make stiff,
crumbly dough Feed hot or cold all
the fowls will eat in ten or fifteen min
utes.
When the agricultural appropriation
F, bill was before the House Mr.. Lucking
iMich.) made an unsuccessful effort to
| secure an amendment to the bill so
as to restrict the distribution of black
leg vaccine by the Agricultural Depart
ment During the discussion on the
proposed amendment Mr.. BurleSon
| (TeXas) read the following extract
from the testimony given by Secretary
| Wilson before the committee on agri-
| culture relative to blackleg: "Blacklee
is a disease that affects young animals.
mostly valves. The people found great
difficulty in getting serum that was
| powerful enough to treat It, We make
it here for probably one-tenth of one
cent a dozen and we send out million
and half doses free to the people. and
the result is that wherever we send it.
blackleg disappears. We are pushing
this work with the theory that if we
can prevent blackleg it will die out. II
is the same with rabies. If you muzZle
every dog in the District of Columbia
and allow no other dog to come in, the
rabies will not come in. That is the
theory on which we are trying to eX-
pertinent with blackleg, and we arc
succeeding"