10 PRliVENT APPLES FROM BEING WORMY, &c. 



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J PREVENT APPLES FKOM BEING WOKMY. 



HE Apple ^Vorm, which is so prevalent in this 

 of the ooiinti-y, without doubt is produced by a 

 h, or milier, whicli deposits its eggs in the calyx 

 ' he apj)le wlieu it is very small. ( When I speali 

 pple uornis, I do not mean those caterpillars 

 ■h infest our apple trees almost every spring, do- 

 ing the leaves and almost destroying the trees.) 

 ic eggs soon become worms, and gnaw holes into 

 apples, where they feast themselves all summer 

 sometimes nearly all winter. I need not spend 



to describe these worms, for every man that has 

 1 wormy apples, knows very well what they are. 

 ipose these worms turn to millers in the spring 

 repart of summer, and deposit their eggs on tlie 

 g apples the same as the previous year. The 

 3ge (lone to apples every year amounts to a great 

 Many of the apples after they are punctured, 

 rom the trees before they are half grown. Many 

 le apples that remain on the trees till fall, will 

 eep more than three weeks after they are pick- 

 Every fruit culturist knows that apples will keep 

 I short time after the skin is broken so as to let 

 e air. 



aving been troubled with wormy apples for the 

 ifteen years, I thought I would try an e.iperi- 



on one tree this season, to see if I could not 

 these marauder in their wild career. I took half 

 :en quart beer bottles, and filled each half full 

 •eetened water; I then suspended them from the 

 3hes of the tree in the following manner : I tied 

 er straps three-fourths of an inch wide around 

 ranches to prevent them from being girdled; to 



leather straps I tied hemp strings, to which I 

 bed the bottles, leaving them open to allow the 



Irs to enter, 

 et the battles remain in this situation five or si.\ 

 s, and on taking them down and emptying them, 

 1 the millers had entered in great numbers, and 

 drowned in the liquid. In one bottle I counted 

 n, in another forty, and so on. The tree thus 

 2d produced fourteen bushels of large fair ap- 

 while the fruit on the trees not experimented 

 as wormy. Whether the remedy produced all 

 ifference or not, I will not pretend to say, but I 

 some fruit culturist will be enterprising enough 

 ? the experiment next summer, and report their 

 ?ss to the editor of this or some other paper. 

 :other method that I would recommend for des- 

 ng these millers that produce the apple worms, 

 take shavings or straw, and light fires in the or- 

 1 in the evening, in the month of June. As 

 as the millers see the light they will fly towards 

 d be consumed in the flames. Millions may be 

 oyed every season in this way. 

 -iHu Cross, Hoosick, Rens., co., N. Y. 



JRE FOB Ringbone. — I noticed in the Cultivator 

 lay l.ith, an inquiry for the cure for a ringbone 

 colt, and answer, take highwines of cider or bran- 

 dd saltpeter as much as will dissolve, and wash 

 ingbone two or three times a day. One of my 

 ibors cured one of three or four years' standing, 

 le application a few times. 



SA .T L.iKE Barley. — We received some time 

 since ;rom Chay Harvey, Esq., of Delaware county, 

 Pa., a small parcel of barley, which he thus describes: 



" The barley I sent you is a new variety in this 

 section of country; the seed (i pint) was presented to 

 me by a relative, Rouf.rt Pikiu.-k, Esq., who brought 

 it five years since direct from the Great Salt Lake 

 Valley. Mr. P. as.sured me that a yield of 60 bush- 

 els to the acre, weighing GO pound to the bushel, was 

 of common occurrence; that 70 bushels and over had 

 frequently been raised for malting purjjoses; he says, 

 it by far excels our eastern barley; the beer, &c., they 

 manufacture from it entirely surpasses ours in point 

 of flavor, its standard (California) weight is (30 pounds 

 to one bushel, after five years' cultivation with it still 

 retains its standard weight, weighing this spring (JO 

 pounds fair measure; the straw is of a very superior 

 quality, iis food for cattle, being heavily coated with 

 leaves; its hull or husk, you will observe, veiy much 

 resembles wheat, having no roughness of coating, as 

 we are accustomed to see on our common variety; as 

 food for stock it must be superior; in short, I think 

 it is just what is much wanted for strong land," — 

 American Farmer. 



Black Knot on Plum Trees. — ^Messrs. Editors: 

 — Facts are everywhere admitted to be better than 

 theories; and observation is the fruitful mother of the 

 farmer, while speculative animus often creates the 

 latter. 



Wm. Smith, Esq., of Ballston Centre, a gentleman 

 of close observation and of much practical skill, in- 

 forms me that a year ago all his plum trees were bad- 

 ly affected with the black knot, except one, growing 

 with the rest, and having the same general treatment. 

 In looking about for a specific cause he found this 

 ])articular difference; at the base of the unaffected 

 tree was a large tomato vine. Making note of the 

 fact, this year he removed all the diseased branches 

 from his trees, and around a portion of them se*- out 

 the tomato plant, leaving part uncared for. iVow 

 mark the result. Those with the tomato at the 

 roots, have no knot whatever, while those not treated 

 in this way, were/i/Zi of black bunches, the same as 

 last year. 



Mr. Smith offers no analytical explanation, but 

 simply gives the public these facts. F. D. C.^ 

 Charlton. 



Cabbage Worms. — ^The Charleston (S. C.) Mercu- 

 ry tells us that John Parrar, one of the most prac- 

 tical farmers in the State, says these destructive in- 

 sects may be destroyed in the following easy and sim- 

 ple way: — " Break off a large leaf from the bottom of 

 the cabbage, and place it on top, upper side down. — 

 Do this in the evening, and in the morning you will 

 find near or quite all the worms on each cabbage 

 have taken up their quarters on this leaf. Take off 

 the leaf and kill them, or feed them to the chickens, 

 and place the leaf back if there be any more to 

 catch." 



Know that if you have a friend, you ought to visit 

 him often. The road is grown over with grass, the 

 bushes quickly spread over it if it be not constantly 

 traveled. 



