1871 



THE POMOLOGIST AND GARDENER. 



319 



THE LABOR REQUTRED TO SAVE A CROP OP FRUIT. 



An ordinary hand, witli old shingles at hand can 

 make and place upon the trees from 300 to 300 traps 

 in a day. The traps can be made and placed on the 

 trees at any time during the winter or spring, and 

 40 days after the first blossoms fall they should be 

 attended to, opened and the worms killed. The 

 quickest and best way to do this is to have a large 

 tin pan bent in on one side, so as to fit closely to 

 the trunk of the tree. When j'ou reach the tree 

 drop upon your knees, place the depression in the 

 pan against the trunk of the tree, hold it there by 

 pressing your body against it, and j'ou have both 

 hands free to open the trap. When opening it 

 many of the pupa; or chrysalides will fall into the 

 pan and some of the worms. Kill the rest or scrape 

 them into the pan. The trap must be turned clear 

 around, as many will be found between it and the 

 bark of the tree. A person will open and kill the 

 worms in from 400 to 800 traps in a daj'. This 

 opening the traps and killing the worms must be 

 repeated in two weeks for at least three times. The 

 great eflbrt must be to kill all of the first brood of 

 worms. If we get till ofihtm there will be no second 

 brood. The first brood of worms do practically no 

 other harm than the laying of eggs for the second 

 brood. The fruit destroyed by the first brood is of 

 no consequence. Its destruction in an orchard in 

 full bearing is of benefit in the way of thinning the 

 fruit of our over-burdened trees. It is the second 

 and the partial third brood that makes all our 

 wormy apple.s, causes all our windfalls (?) in the 

 stillest weather. I care nothing for the destruction 

 of what is left of the second brood after killing all 

 I possibly can of the first brood, for the reason that 

 I do not believe m the complete destruction of this 

 moth by any means whatever, but it is well enough 

 for those who have the time, to visit their traps ev- 

 ery two weeks and kill the worms, from the middle 

 of June until the apples are all out of the orchard. 



Greeley on Cider. — When Horrace Greeley 

 was out in these "diggins," last fall delivering agri- 

 cultural addresses, he told us Hawkeyes that we 

 must have a wind mill on every knoll to raise 

 water for irrigating our famishing crops. We have 

 since learned how Mr. Greeley would have us make 

 cider. Here it is : "Select none but the soundest 

 turnips, chopping them into sled lengths before 

 cradling them. In boiling your cider use plenty of 

 ice, and, when thoroughly boiled, hang it up in 



the sun to dry." 



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Five Dollars per Quart. — A correspondent of 

 the Small Fruit Recorder don't think the Mexican 

 Strawberry can be raised for less than five dollars 

 per quart. We doubt not that his conclusion is 

 about right. 



(iswilanwns. 



That Nebraska Olrcniar. 



We have before us a circular from Nebraska with 

 the signature of J. W. Pearmain, which we wish to 

 make a few remarks upon. If this circular had not 

 referred to the Prairie Farmer, Chicago I'rtbunf, 

 and the Nebraska delegates to sustain it, we should 

 not think it worth a notice, although we do not be- 

 lieve they feel much honored in having their names 

 u.sed in connection with it. Who Mr. Pearmain is, 

 or what his objects were, we do not know neither 

 do we care, but we do think it would have been 

 much to his credit to have u.sed more becoming 

 language respecting the Kansas and Iowa fruits at 

 Richmond, Virginia, in a controversy with other 

 States, than the foUowiii 



''No sooner had the premiums been awarded than Iowa and 

 Kansas rush to the associate press and announce to the world 

 that Iowa takes the /irs( premium and Kansas the second, for 

 the best fruits on exhibition Luckily, however, these pre- 

 miums were special ones ofl'ered by Messrs. Ellwanger & 

 Barry, of New York, and Mr. Brighton of Virf^inia. The dis- 

 patch no doubt was intended to convey the idea that these 

 Jiffy and twenty dollar premiums were the crack premiums of 

 the society, but such is not the case.'^ 



"These special premiums are likf side shows at a bi^ cir- 

 cus The monkeys are in the side show, while the elephant 

 18 the centre of attraction. Iowa and Kansas were the mou- 

 keys in the show at Kichmond, while Nebraska is the tile- 

 phant, and gets ^^0 rfo//ar« to their one. And now that the 

 truth is known through the Prairie Farmer, as well as from 

 the lips of Messrs. Furnas and Masters, oar representatives at 

 Richmond. I trust brother Wilson will make the correction 

 and let the people in and around Des Moines know that Ne- 

 braska stands as the banner fruit growing State of this 

 Union, while Iowa and Kansas are only tolerably good second 

 rate fruit growing regions, and did actually play the part of 

 monkeys at the great show." 



We have given enough of this ciicular to show 

 that Mr. Pearmain has attempted to show that 

 Iowa and Kansas took sjj(!c«rf premiums, therefore 

 they "are like side shows to a big circus." To sus- 

 tain these views he has proven too much and shown 

 that Nebraska had also taken a "special premium" 

 by giving the report of the committe on "special 

 premiums" who made the award offered by the 

 " Virginia Agricultural Society ;" therefore according 

 to his own argument, proving that Nebraska, 

 " luckily, however," took a "special" premium, and 

 had also been a sidti show. 



He further says : "Let the Hmiustead man 

 also state that tlielowa and Kan.sas fruits were ex- 

 hibited under their State Horticultural Societies, and 

 thousands of dollars of public money were spent 

 in getting up their collections." This stat> ment 

 proves that Mr. Pearmain is entirely destitute of 

 concientiousness, or that it has become so blasted 

 that he cares but little what he says. We were one 

 of the delegates from Kansas who helped to col- 

 lect the fruit and went to Richmond, and we know 

 that not one dollar of public money was spent in 

 collecting or exhibiting the fruit, but that each of us 



