The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1922-05-05
Treatment for Citrus Fruit Makes
Icinu Unnecessary

After the grower OF citrus fruits mas
successfully combated adverse wealth
er conditions, blights, and pests, and
finally has the ripened fruit ready for
market, he still has to face the prob
lem of delivering that fruit to mar
ket before it spoils. Under average
conditions, this means that the time
elapsed from the tree to the consumer
should be about Is days, even when
the fruit is preceded and shipped in
refrigerator cars. Now, however. this
condition may be changed if q new
chemical treatment fulfls the claims
that are made for it. BY this method
a chemical emulsion is parafin is
brushed over the fruit as it passes
to the packing bins. The chemicals
kill all germs and agencies of decay,
and then evaporate without leaving
taste or odor, while the paraffin seals
the fruit alright and prevents wither
ing and evaporation-From the May
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Chips
Every row OF corn should be row
of legumes.
Money invested IN window and door
screens means several times that
amount of money saved in doctors
Kills ond f.,noroI
Let the women do the work"
seems to be pretty popular with a
lot of men, but they should not have
to do their work with equipment any
less modern than the men have.
Constant cultivation should be the
watch word with every farmer, espe-
cially during the growing season. Gull
tivation prevents the escape of mois-
ture and moisture is vital to growing
crops.
A day with weeder land a horse
before the grass gets too big means
a week for several men and horses
and plows and hoes later on. Don't
put it off.
The first generation of the earworm T
of corn in the spring works in the /
growing tip of the corn as bud /
worms LyiII tI.;- r<oro~.&;o.. - I
there will be fewer ear worms later,
and the stalks will be more vigorous.
Do this killing by busting into the
buds mixture of equal parts of lead
arsenate and air-slacked lime-Agri-
cultural News Service.
Keep the Vegetable Garden Coming
There is no basis for the idea that
vegetables cannot be grown in Florida
during the hot summer months, and
those vegetables in the garden that
will soon be departed should be re-
planted or others planted to take their
places. This is the advice of r. A.
Carlton who has had considerable
gardening experience and who has
made study OF general gardening
rules for the state at the Florida Col
lege of Agriculture.
For early summer he advises plant
ing stringless green pod snapbeans
and sieva butterbeans. saying that
they will give good results. The but
ter beans will bear all summer, if
trained on trellis and kept cult
waited. Other suggestions are as fol-
lows:
Brabham and whip-poor-will cow
peas are suitable for this season. Both
are excellent garden peas, but the
former is earlier.
A few hills of cucumbers (Klon-
dixie. watermelons (Tom Watson),
squash (patty-pan), cantaloupes (paul
rosel. and pumpkins will yield sur
prisingly well in the summer.
A few rows of country gentleman
of Stowell's evergreen sweet corn
should be planted every ten days till
well into the summer.
London purple eggplants are good
for summer conditions and may be
planted quite late in the summer and /
no garden should exclude peppers and
okra.
White Japanese radish. planted late
in April or early May, will provide a
delicious green vegetable for the table
after the latter part of June.
Chicken Mites
Chicken mites feed on the birds,
sucking their blood. during the night,
but in the day time they retire to the
dark crevices IN the poultry house. 1
Because Of their biood-sucking habit
they are very detrimental to the
health OF poultry
Thoroly spray the hen house with