THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



PRESERVATION OF WHEAT FROM THE AT- 

 TACK OF THE WEEVIL. 



Numerous remedies have been proposed to 

 protect wheat from the destructive ravages of 

 the weevil, but most of them have been 

 impracticable or too expensive. M. Oaillat, 

 in France, recommends the use of tar, as. a 

 certain and economical agent for their destruc- 

 tion. He says : 



"The efficacy of tar in driving away the 

 weevil and preserving the grain, is an incon- 

 testible fact. My father had, a long time ago, 

 his granaries, barns, and the whole house, 

 infested with these insects, so much so, that 

 they penetrated into all the chests, and among 

 the linen. He placed an open cask impregna- 

 ted with tar in the barn, and then in the 

 granaries; at the end of some hours the 

 weevils were seen climbing along the walls by 

 myriads, and flying in all directions away from 

 the cask. On moving this tarred vessel from 

 place to place, the premises were in a few days 

 completely cleared of these troublesome and 

 pernicious guests. The agriculturist who 

 wants to get rid of weevils, may, as soon as 

 he perceives their presence, impregnate the 

 surface of some old planks with tar, and place 

 them as required in his granaries. Care must 

 be taken to renew the tar from time to time 

 in the course of the year, to prevent the return 

 of the insects." — -Comptes Rendus. 



SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT WITH PEAS. 



A gentleman well known in the South, 

 sowed a field in oats, so poor that it yielded 

 only 7 bushels per acre. As soon as the oats 

 were off, the land was plowed and sowed in 

 peas, which were turned in when at their 

 rankest growth. The next year it was sowed 

 in oats again, and produced fourteen bushels to 

 the acre. They were again immediately fol- 

 lowed by peas, and the next season oats, which 

 gave a product of twenty-eight bushels per 

 acre. This was followed by a third crop of 

 peas, and a yield of over forty bushels of oats 

 to the acre. The land ivas raised by three 

 coats of peas, fron seven to forty bushels per 

 acre. Farmers, read, practice, improve. 

 This must become an important branch of 

 your system of manuring. Let it be com- 

 bined with some methodical plan of saving, 

 collecting and applying every material about 

 the premises that will enrich the land, and in 

 four years every poor farm on which the sys- 

 tem is adopted and faithfully carried out, will 

 double, and in some instances, quadruple its 

 productions. 



EMERY'S SEED PLANTER AND DRILL 

 BARROW. 



I have used this drill in planting corn the 

 list two years, with great advantage. It 

 plants the corn with accuracy, dropping from 

 one to five grains at distances varying from 

 three inches to eight feet, as desired. It 

 opens the furrow, dropt, covers and rolls the 

 corn, at one operation ; is an easy draught for 

 one horse, and will plant from five to ten 

 acres of land per day. This year I planted. 

 170 acres with two drills in fifteen days, 

 saving each day one bushel of corn, and the 

 labor of two horses and four hands. At a 

 fair calculation the saving in labor and corn 

 would be $5 per day, or $75 for fifteen days. 

 The drill cost me in Richmond, two years 

 ago, $ , and I consider it one of the best 

 implements that I have ever used. We owe 

 its introduction into Virginia to that able and 

 ardent agriculturist, L. E. Harvie, Esq. If 

 the patentee, H. L. Emery, Albany, N. Y., 

 would make his drill rather stronger, lift the 

 stilts, and establish an agency in Richmond, 

 it would be greatly advantageous to himself 

 and the State. Full directions accompany 

 the drill. Wm. H. Harrison. 



CAMPHOR vs. PEA-BUGS 



Having observed in the Horticulturist an 

 inquiry relative to seed-peas damaged by bugs, 

 I will offer a remedy, perhaps not new, but new 

 to me. Four years ago, last spring, my seed- 

 peas were more than half destroyed by bugs, 

 the largest and best varieties being most in- 

 jured. The summer following, I had boxes 

 made, one for each variety, with a cover ; and 

 when the peas were gathered, I put into each 

 box, with a quart of peas, from six to eight 

 bits of gum-camphor, the size of a large pea, 

 and mixed them together, and closed the box. 

 The next spring there was not a pea injured. 

 I have pursued the same course every year 

 since, and have not had one pea affected by 

 bugs. — Plmv, Loom and Anvil. 



Guinea Fowls vs. Rats. — A correspondent 

 of the Prairie Farmer, who was very much 

 annoyed by rats, tried shooting, poisoning, and 

 everything he could think of ; but they defied*; 

 the whole category. He then heard that they 

 would not remain where Guinea fowls were 

 kept, and procured several, and now says that 

 for over two years he has neither seen nor 

 heard a rat about the premises. 



We doubt the above rat remedy, and should 

 be glad to hear from others who have tried it 

 to know whether it is effectual — American 

 Agriculturist. 



