THE FARMERS' MONTHLY, OCTOBER. 1928 



Mouse Control in Orchards 



Several growers in the county were 

 troubled with mice injury to trees last 

 winter and though injured trees may be 

 bridge grafted, the following information 

 is compiled with the knowledge that an 

 ounce of prevention is often worth a 

 pound of cure. 



On general principals, it is wise to re- 

 move grass and weeds from around the 

 base of the tree and to use a mechanical 

 protector of wire, with mesh not over J 

 inch, to encircle to tree. 



Pine mice, however, may burrow down 

 and cause injury below the base of the 

 protector and the following poison bait 

 has been used very successfully to control 

 this pest. This poison bait should be 

 placed in poison bait stations at about 

 every other tree. These bait stations may 

 be made of two boards eight inches square 

 with 2 one and one-half inch risers to 

 separate the boards and make a place to 

 distribute the bait. 



Mixing the Bait 



Mix one tablespoonful of gloss starch in 

 one-half cup of cold water and stir into 

 three quarters pint of boiling water and 

 continue boiling to make a thin clear 

 paste. Stir into the paste a mixture of 

 one ounce of powdered strychnine and one 

 ounce of baking soda. Add one quarter 

 pint of corn syrup, and if available, one 

 tablespoonful of glycerine. Apply this 

 paste to 12 quarts of whole wheat, mix 

 thoroughly and let dry. Next thoroughly 

 warm the poisoned wheat and apply about 

 three quarters pint of a hot mixture of 

 three parts of melted beef fat and one 

 part paraffine. This provides an essential 

 protective covering. 



Place a small quantity of this completed 

 mixture in each bait station and refill as 

 necessary. 



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Use an 

 Effective Disinfectant 



after removing reactors 

 We carry Parke, Davis & Co.'s 



COMPOUND SOLUTION OF 

 CRESOL, U. S. P. 



Recommended by the U. S. Dep't 

 of Agriculture 



Price right for quality. Free 

 delivery in gallon lots. 



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 Northampton, - - Mass. 



New Metliod of Vaccination 



Continued from page 3. column 2 

 tibio-arsal joint). The feathers are 

 plucked from an area of approximately 

 one square inch and the vaccine applied 

 by vigorously rubbing it into the follicles 

 with a cotton swab attached to a wooden 

 applicator. A pared down camel's hair 

 brush may be used for the purpose. With- 

 in four to eight days aften vaccination 

 the follicles swell and by the eighteenth 

 day are covered with pox-scabs, similar 

 to those seen on the comb in cases of the 

 disease. From then on the scabs gradu- 

 ally disapear. On the twenty-ninth to 

 thirty-first day after vaccination the birds 

 have developed a complete protection or 

 immunity against fowl-pox in its various 

 forms. 



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Select 

 Your Fertilizer 



As an individual you cannot se- 

 lect the materials of which your 

 fertilizer is composed, but you use 

 ingredients selected by your em- 

 ployes and formulated into mixtures 

 on facts secured by them from the 

 colleges and experiment stations 

 when you buy with your neighbors 

 cooperatively through the Eastern 

 States Farmers' Exchange. 



The Eastern States Farmers' Ex- 

 change will again publish its fertili- 

 zer formulas. It finds that cash 

 fertilizer buyers as a whole like to 

 know what ingredients the- are us- 

 ing. The Eastern States Farmers' 

 Exchange finds that the open for- 

 mula helps to keep fertilizer users 

 informed on progress in fertilizer 

 knowledge. 



Eastern States fertilizers for 

 1929 will be built to supply plant 

 nutrients to produce bumped quali- 

 ty crops at a low unit of cost. They 

 will contain nitrogen, available 

 phosnhoric acid and potash in 

 ratios upon which agronomists have 

 agreed. These three assential plant 

 nutrients will be derived from pro- 

 ven combinations of ingredients. 

 High analysis mixture will again be 

 featured and all the formulas will 

 combine safety with economy. 



Plan now to buy fertilizers for 

 1929 through the Eastern States 

 Fai-mers' Exchange — fertilizers 



built to produce economically for 

 you rather than to sell attractively. 

 A brief request addressed to the 

 office will put you in touch with the 

 particulars of the Exchange fertili- 

 zer program. Remember that there 

 is ample time to order your entire 

 fertilizer requirements for 1929 

 through the Eastern States Farm- 

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