332 TliANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Cony, take all the liverj stables have, haul it home and compost it. 

 Sleep with Peter Henderson nnder your pillow, read him seven times 

 through, and next March you will have two elements of success as a 

 gardener, first, all the theoretical knowledge that you can remember, 

 and second, a big manure pile. 



Adjourned. 



May 25, 1869. 



Nathan C. Ely, Esq., in the chair ; Mr. John W. Chaaibeks, Secretary. 

 Insect Pests — Various Ways of Expelling Them. 



To get rid of the little striped bug on squash and cucumber plants, 

 Mr, Edmund Butcher, of Hornellsville, N, Y., gives the following 

 receipt : Make the hills about ten inches in diameter, plant the seed 

 in a circle, and in the center plant four or five beans. When the 

 vines are out of reach of the bugs, the beans may be cut off or trans- 

 ferred to another place. 



For lice on cattle or sheep, he says: Feed sulphur; I used sulphur 

 in England and for more than twenty years in this country, and 

 always with good results. For a horse or cow give about a table- 

 spoonful in any feed twice a week, for two or three weeks, and you 

 will have similar pleasant experience to relate. To my sheep I give 

 the same medicine in the fall, when the sheep first come into the 

 yard, mixing a tablespoonful of sulphur with a pint and feed it to 

 them twice a week for three or four weeks, and at shearing time you 

 will have no trouble with sheep ticks. 



The following is his cure for yellows in the peach tree : Apply a 

 tablespoonful of salt, saltpeti-e and potash combined together in equal 

 weight. Mix it in the ground with a hoe, about eight inches from the 

 trunk, about the 1st to the 10th of August. This disease is caused 

 by great numbers of insects, too small to be seen by the naked eye. 

 Piercing the roots, sooner or later the tree withers and dies. There 

 was, in 1861, an orchard of 400 trees, on the Jones estate, near New 

 Brighton, S. I. They had been standing twenty-two years, every 

 tree perfectly healthy. Mrs. Jones said her husband took the receipt 

 from an old horticultural work that seemed to have been lost sight 

 of. The trees have annually been strictly treated as above, have 

 become large trees. In good years for that fruit, they bear five 

 bushels of peaches each. All peach trees, till four years old, rcqin're 

 cutting back, to keep thein healthy. Tliey grow too much wood. 



