The Pulaskian., 1919-05-02
Continued From Last Week.)

Continued From Last Week.)
 J. K. Winkler says the Niagra is better bearer than the Concord grapes and is his favorite. Louis Lacy has a large vineyard which is the envy of all his neighbors and many of them are preparing to put out a vineyard. Niagras are a favorite with him also, but the Concord is the best wine grape, but wine has gone out of fashion. Yet one of our old Italian subscribers makes wine that you can drink half gallon of or drink it for half day without it intoxicating you. The next time I visit him I am going to get his recipe for making it.
 MT. Lacy had an old apple tree which would not bear, so last year he decided to kill it. When I asked him did he ever try my salt remedy for the blight? He broke out in a big laugh and said, "Did I? I put a half bushel of it around that old apple tree last spring to kill it and the result was that it bore a good crop of apples so this spring put it around all my trees. I had two barrels of old salt I had packed meat in which is the kind I used"
 Clarence Paty of R. F. D. 2, not only put quart around each of his apple and pear trees, but also put it around his peach trees this spring and thinks it it is helping them all.
 One man told me if you would plant a ring of shellots around your peach trees they will keep the borers out.
 Another man says if you will rake the soil away from the roots of your peach trees forming dam and pour it full of boiling water it will kill all the borers and the tree will go to inn proving at once. would be afraid to try this on a tree unless the borers were killing it. If it worked on it I would then try it on others.
 Another man says grease your trees with hog liver and it will keep the rabbits away for two years. You had better remember this and try it next winter for if true it is big discovery for apple trees.
 Cut V shaped slit in your peach trees, put dose of calomel in each, then let the bark back if you are troubled with wormy fruit and there will be no worms in them I am told It is also said to be a good remedy for a barren pear tree.
 Monday I was at MT. Nobles on the Bayou Meto. He was putting on lots of style for an old farmer man. Had on great big veil and gloves and had them tied on at that. He was try ing to hive a swarm of bees which swarmed the evening before and whipped him and his entire family. As returned Friday evening G. E. Wirt was trying to hive a swarm and had been for two or three days. Next there was negro trying to hive swarm on the asphalt road at Camp Pike In fact lots of people are hiving bees and have been for a month. They are not only swarming early this year, but they are also very rich.
 Mrs. Wirt has 175 little incubator chicks just two days old for which she is offered twenty cents each and she does not know whether to sell them and take chances on another setting or not. Since food conserva- tion got to be a fad there has been a great demand for them in Little Rock at that price which is $40 a dozen. Formerly $2.50 dozen was the standard price for full grown chickens.
 I ate dinner with the Wirts and they had the finest of sweet potatoes. They just have a few bushels they have held back fo rtheir own use. They keep them in their concrete cellar where they have thir 175 little chicks also.