Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-13

the earth with the foot and the thing
is done. A boy to carry a basket with
the plants and, If he is careful one,
place them in the ground, saves time
and backache.
Do not use paris green to kill the
worms on the caIbbages. 1t is a dan
gerous business and we have known
persons to be badly poisoned by eating
cabbages treated this way. If the cab
carefully attended to, our experience
is that not enough worms will be seen
to do any great injury. Anyway, those
which make their appearance may be
disposed Of in a much safer way. If
the soil has plenty of potash and the
plants are not too close together they
will not be troubled with worms. Cab
bage is a rank grower and in good soil,
with the proper cultivation, it very
soon grows too big for the worms to do
any damage.
Cabbage should have a bit of bone
dust, wood ashes or well composted
manure, in order to induce good-sized
growth. Nitrate of soda is also a great
help. If the plants show too rank
growth pull them over to one side in
order to break off q few of the roots,
which will retard the growth and tend
to produce more solid heads.
Along about this time ants make a
great deal of trouble by throwing up
hills in the garden or on the lawn. No
use to dig them up or destroy the
nests, as they can quickly turn up in
some other spot. At the nearest drug
store buy can of bisulphide of car
bon. 1t is ill-smelling stuff and if you
place a match within foot of it there
will be an explosion. By all means al
low no fire to come near it. With a
stick make two or three openings in
the ant hill, near the center, and pour
about a tablespoonful into the hole,
then close the hole tightly with earth,
and the fumes will quickly permeate
the hill and kill every living thing.
Here comes our old friend, the pota-
to bug, again. Spraying with bordeaux
mixture, to which has been added
arsenate of lead at the rate of about
two pounds to the barrel of the mix
ture, will usually kill the bugs and also
| prevent blight. But after all there is
no better thing than paris green for de-
stroying potato bugs. This can be
mixed with lime or -four and busted
on the vines.
We have seen people pick potato
beetles off the vines by hand, putting
them into a bottle or tin can, to be
scalded with hot water later; and we
have seen others knock them off on
the ground and sweep them into a
dustpan, but this is slow work and
does not kill the eggs, which are con-
stantly being laid ON the vines. Stick
to the bordeaux mixture and arsenate
of lead and paris green and keep your
eyes on the vines every day.
The yellow-striped beetle is one OF
the greatest enemies of the cucumber
vines, but it is easily discouraged by
spraying with arsenate of lead, and
this also protects the vines from other
leaf-eaters.
The best time to move the currant
bushes is In the late fall. Dig up the
bushes with as much dirt around the
roots as possible and set out in the
new location. The soil should be dus
up to depth of two feet, more or less
and well fertilized with rotted stable
manure. Disturb the roots as little a!
possible and firm down the ground al
around them Keep the weeds ava!
next spring and the bushes will prob
ably get along all right.