The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-17

have noticed that many leaves of my seuppernong grapes have on the un- derside numerous little gals Of warts. The vines have borne but little and l thought may be th,s trouble was to blame. Could you give me any light on the subject? M, F., Route 8.
 A. Your vines are infested with what Is known as grape phylloxera, destructive plant louse that sucks foliage and destroys the roots These warts are where they hatch the;r young. Fumigate the ro6ts with car bon bisulphide in the winter or dor mant months.
 0. I have 6 barn badly infested With weevils, rats and snakes. The government tells me to gas them with hydrocyanic acid gas but don't say how. Please tell me how to go about it? M. N, Eufaula.
 A. The first thing to do Is to make tho barn as tight as possible so as to eonfine the gas. Seal up all cracks with paper and close up holes. Get from your druggist a pound each Of cyanide of potash and sulphuric acid. Locate wooden saucer, dish or small wooden bucket in center of room and pour in three pints of water, then pour in sulphuric acid and mix. Have cyanide of potash in paper sack and drop in sack and all in the vessel. get out of barn quick and close tightly. Let barn stay scaled all night. then open and stay out and away, until all gas Is dis sipated. Keep all stock or other live animals away. One must be particular with such a dangerous poison gas but 1t will do the work as nothing else will. It. will kill any living lining and render the dead much, deader.
 o. Please give me and my neigh bors a remedy for blight on roses. how to prepare and use? J. E. N., Anniston.
 A. Dissolve half ounce copperas in gallon of water and then stir fin one ounce dry lime sulphur. Spray thoroughly and repeat in 10 to l5 days. Repeat this treatment in spring before new growth starts. but double the strength on dormant plants then you will have no blight next season. Q. My asters look siekiy and don't seem to make any headway growing. What do you think should be done? Miss B.. Route s.
 A. It may be root lice as several
 
 in around each plant about an ounce of tobacco dust and spray with soap sude at week intervals until better.
 0. In gathering black eyed peas for the table find liva worms in the pods Could anything be done for this trouble, and tell me how to use? J. S.. Childersburg.
 A. No practical remedy Is known. The egg that produced this weevil grub was laid on the young pod, the tiny young bores Into pod and nature closes the hole. Spraying early would have helped.
 Q. How do you keep weevIls out of beans, peas, etc.? c. L. s. Suilieent
 A. Camphor. napthaline or napth- slime balls, carbonate of ammonia and chloroform placed in seed, when confined in a tight container will Keep out weevils or other vermin Most peas and beans have the weeyIl germ Inside of the dried bean, which in time develops. eats It's way ont and emerges as weeyiI. These grubs may be killed inside of the bean by fumigating with blsuIphide of carbon (high life). Place seed in tight container, set a saucer on ton and pour in an ounce of bisulphide carbon to bushel of seed, close top with cloths, sacks or other tiRhr covering to prevent escape of gas Tho fumes penetrate downward and destroy all life in seed. Leave vessel closed for "A hours. A second trent ment Is sometimes required and should be made if any life shows up later on.
 Q. l have the largest tomato vines but no fruit What could be the matter7 B. L.. Carbon Hill.
 A. It could be due to a poor strain of seed. but the most likely cause is too much nitrogen fertilizers anu not enough phosphates and potash believe they will yet bear if healthy and no insects.