St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-01-31

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hills and burn them when dry. as
they will scatter the trouble all over
the ground when rotten. Do not let
any of the old tomato vines find their
way into the stables at the barn, as
the disease will be scattered in using
the manure. This trouble is caused
by parasite that grows up into the
body OF the plant from the soil, and
the growth of the parasite chokes
the tomato plant to death. Now,
my dear Wildwood" you can see
that to spray for this disease would
| be worse than cooking pine knots
to feed pigs with; simply time and
money thrown away. The disease is
sometimes brought on quicker by
not having the right kind of fertiliz-
er, and by not having the soil prop
erly drained. Being in shaded po-
sition does not have anything to do
With the development of the disease,
! as it is not caused by the sunshine
| but by parasite.
Now we come to blight, which is
a disease of another type, and we
are not SO afraid of this trouble,
either, as it is easily stopped by the
use Of bordeaux. Blight is dis
ease>of the plant, and not of the soil,
and is located on the outside of leaves
and stems and of course can be reach
ed very easily with spray.
l am going to tell you how to
make bordeaux, if you should want
to use it, and I suspect you will if
you grow tomatoes. Take two tubs
that will hold % gallons of water
each, one for the copper sulphate
solution and one for the lime milk
solution. Place 5 pounds CT lime in
one tub and pour on sufficient water
to break up lime without allowing
it to burn. After lime is thoroughly
Stacked dilute it to Is gallons. Into
the other tub pour Is gallons water
and suspend in it pounds coppes.
sulphate in gunny sack or other
porous sack for "a hours before the
the solut on is wanted. The mix
ture is completed then by pouring the
two solutions together in a barrel
that will hold fifty gallons and stir
ring until properly mixed. 1t is then
ready for use and the best spraying
machine to get to use it with is one
you can strap around the shoulder
after being pumped full of air, and
the pressure VIII force the liquid cur
with some force to it and you do Lot
have to be always pumping; you only
pump when the pressure has run too
low to force liquid out far enough. |
To make arsenateF of lead solu-i.,r
take one part of the pure arsenate
paste form and mix with IS parts |
water. Where you wish to use Dor
deaux and arsenate at same time pat |
about one part of the arsenate lead !
solution after you have it made and |
two parts bordeaux.
There are other diseases of minor |
importance that we sometimes find |
invading the tomato plants, but they |
are not worth giving attention just |
here.
think have said enough relative
to the cultivation of tomatoes and
starting plants in frames, transplant
ing, fertilizers, etc, but if there is
any one who. desires to have the
straw thrashed oft again will en-
deavor to make it little more plain.
think this article will pretty well
finish up the tomato question, right I
at this time, and without some re-
quest, I do not intend to have any
thing more to say on tomatoes until
about February 18th.
Just Word About Pecan Trees.
had letter from party at
signing the name
Farmer" requesting me to say
word on the pecan tree this week.
This party wants to know II old pc
can trees can be fertilized and doc
tored up and forced to bear. Also
wants to know il trees that are plenty
old enough to bear can be top-grafted /,
and converted into bearer that way.
There can be but one remedy to
the whole thing, especially an old !
tree, that is to cut it down and make
wood out of it; then get buded
tree and set out in its place. You [
cannot make nature over; you can ]
not make a Berkshire hog out of (
razor back, and It is no use to try
It. The tree has it's pedigree and
You cannot make It over, an inside
secret, and We do not know how to {
persuade it to give it to us.
In the case Of trees that are not
90 old they can be top grated and t
into a good tree, but the
.rouble is, by the time you find out I
hat the tree is no good it fs then
90 late to do anything with it. lit
10 not advise you to do anything with t
1our trees except cut down and set I
Tut new ones in the place Of the old
mes. If the tree S not over seven X
ears old you can, by hard work,
op graft it. q
Write to the United States Depart
nent of Agriculture for Bulletin on 7
ecans. I
G. c. LEWIS, il
Farm Demonstration.