The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-23

AiA1h hz.s's1Ml8HHah8 f Cucumbers. squash. pumpkins and melons. for the striped cucumber bee tie.
 Tomatoes. for the tomato worm. Spray potatoes with Paris green Bordeaux for the Colorado beetle and the flea-beetles when they appear. This spray will aslo prevent the pota- I to blight.
 | Potato scab is treated hy soaking the seed potatoes in forma1in q pint in 80 gallons of water). for about two hours. Treated potatoes should not be placed where they will get rein- footed with scab spores.
 Spray any of the vegetables with soap or kerosene emulsion for plant | lice and any other of the plant bugs that suck the juices from the plants. Care must be taken to reach every insect on the under side of the leaves. Fungicides. These solutions are designed for the destruction of the fungus diseases. They can be effectual only when they reach the fungus itself They must, therefore, cover all parts of the af- fected plants. The solution will not penetrate tie tissue of the plant and kill the disease on the interior. but is effectual, more as a preventive against the entrance of the disease fungus Into the plant, than curative when the | fungus mas eSJdDllSHc0 ifSeif tu tH0 tissue of the plant.
 Four rounds copper sulphate (blue vitrioD. four pounds quicklime tnot airslacked) 40 gallons water. Dis solve the copper sulphate in hot water or from a coarse bag suspend in cold water; slack lime separately. Dilute copper sulphate solution to about twenty gallons, into which pour the lime: dilute to about ten gallons, stir ring the mixture. Dilute further now, to make 40 or 50 gallons. Stock so- llutions of the copper sulphate or lime rate one pound to one gallon of water, can be kept indefinitely, but will not keep when mixed. After spraying, the solution left over should be thrown away.
 Dilute B0rdeaux Mixture.
 Two pounds copper sulphate, two pounds quicklime (not air-slacked), 50 gallons of water. This is made as Bordeaux mixture.
 Ammonia Solution of Copper Carbonate
 Five ounces copper carbonate. three pints of ammonia. 50 gallons of water. Use just enough ammonia eff strong, dilute with several volumes of water) to dissolve the copper carbonate, then dilute to final volume.
 Copper sulphate.
 Three to four pounds copper sulphate 50 gallons water This strength can
 
 times a weaker solution. one pound to 25o gallons of water is used on the foliage.
 Insecticides.
 These solutions are used to destroy insects and are not effectual for the destruction of fungus diseases. In 1 sects that chew the foliage can be poisored through the stomach, while those that pierce the stems and leaves of plants must be poisoned from the outside. The arsenic compounds in the form of Paris green are the standard poisons to be used against the leai chewers. while soap and kerosene are the standard substances to use against the plant sucking insects Hellehore is used in the same way as arsenic compounds and Is preferable to them in cases where less violent poison Is needed.
 Pnris Green.
 One pound Paris green. three pounds
 lime, 100 gallons of water. HellebOre. May be dusted on the plants ol mixed with water. one ounce in two gallons.
 One pound of soap. eight gallons O water.
 . Kerosene Emulsion.
 Two gallons kerosene. one-half pount : common soap, one gallon water. Dis solve the soap in hot water, add thu kerosene, and churn all together untt . | a white creamy mass Is formed whicl . thickens on cooling Dilute nine time 7 before using. , Lime, Sulphur and Salt Wash. Thirty pounds lime. fifteen pound . salt, twenty pounds sulphur, sixty gal ! Ions water. Boil for one hour in al ! iron kettle, and apply while fresh |
 dormant trees in fall or spring. to Kill f San Jose scale insects
 . FungIcIde and IRsecticide.
 Paris Green Bordeaux. |. Fifty gallons Bordeaux mixture a made as above. four ounces Paris gree : Make up when ready to use. It wi
 not keep. : CO-Operative Experiments in the Cos of Producing Eggs. Tn A former issue we published tn ? results of series of experiments mad in leO1-1902 in New York State. un 7 der the supervision of the experimen s station at Cornell. in the cost of pro = ducinR eggs on a large scale, with tn
 average flocks of poultry kept b
 farmers in that State. These expert @ 1 ments were continued during 1902 . 1ao2 and we have now received a re
 nort on these later trials. Comment l. inr on the whole experiment, the Di
 rector of the experiment. station says;
 Tn the first series of records, 1901 Q 1902. more than 2,1OO egg-laying fowl s were under test. in the second. 1902
 1a0s, more than S,100. making alto
 gether upwards of 5.200 birds tha
 bava been carefully watched and thei nerformance recorded. These record
 are nrimarily of interest to the poul 7 trvman' although the general conclus b ions should appeal to the entire agr
 cultural community
 A most instructive feature of thes s records is the '--~' ~4e range in th 2. cost of producing eggs-a range 'tha ,e runs practically from six cents to si Il doIlars the dozen. On examination, l. ia fonnd that this remarkable rang l. is not correlated closely with bree :. nharscter of building. or kind an II o,antitv of food. although all the: i- Factors have an influence. One cau' IS of thIs difference seems to be di z ference in the hens themselves--aon
 hens are good layers and some Po'
 iavers. as some apple trees are goo is hearers and some poor bearers. Whi
 ths reason Is for this difference