September 23, 1922 
the necessary adaptations to realize on them. 1 
have no land and no plants for sale. 
Florida. n. l. hartman. 
Vht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
test last Spring. They came apparently in good 
condition, but almost absolutely defoliated. With 
the best of care less than half of them grew. With 
such plants the novice is likely to be first jubilant 
and later disappointed. Practically every crown 
starts and they look as if all would grow, but in 
about 10 days many begin to fail, and examination 
shows that no new roots have started, all the growth 
having been made from the vitality of the crown. 
The point seems to be that a few well developed 
leaves are required for a prompt and healthy start 
of root growth, and that in the North the plant car¬ 
rier some foliage through the Winter to good pur¬ 
pose. 
WEEDS.—Perhaps a few hints on weed control 
Ridding the House of Bees 
W HEN, on page 993, IP Kyte advised those 
who want to get swarms of bees out of a 
house to employ I he services of an experienced bee¬ 
keeper. he was giving good advice, hut his mode of 
procedure for ousting the hoes does not go far 
enough to main 1 it successful. 
The use of the bee-escape and nucleus, as sug¬ 
gested by Mr, Kyte. is all right as far as it goes, 
but if at the end of ‘‘about 20 days” he takes the 
hive away and expects to find the house free from 
bees, he will be disappointed. There will still he 
bees in the house, the queen will be there, and she 
will have been laying eggs all the time the escape 
was working, and as there will he young bees emerg¬ 
ing constantly, and even eggs uuhutched at the end 
of “about 2o days.” the job will he no nearer com¬ 
pleted then I ban at the beginning, except that lie 
has greatly depleted tin* colony by taking away Ihe 
fielders. Of course, in time, this method would 
probably wipe out the colony if the escape is left on 
long enough, if in no other way than to deplete it so 
much that it would winter-kill. This might be the 
simplest solution of E. P.'s trouble, but he must 
make sure that there is absolutely no other way for 
the bees to get into their old home. 
There is a way of getting the bees out of the 
house, and save both bees and honey, but it is a 
five weeks’ job. Most of the bees should be removed 
in the way suggested, but the queen will not come 
out. neither will all of the bees, as long as any brood 
remains: the escape and hive ^should he left on about 
four weeks. By that time the colony in the house 
will he so depleted that only a bandful will remain. 
These must be killed, and sulphur smoke from a 
smoker will do it, after taking off the escape. When 
convinced that the few bees and queen are killed, 
the job is done. Nothing remains then but to leave 
the hive there a few days longer, perhaps a week, 
and the bees will go in and bring out the honey and 
store it in the hive, which is then their established 
home. 
As a precaution against another swarm moving 
in later and occupying Ihe old combs E. P. should 
securely stop the entrance, and not overlook the fact 
that worker hoes go through a hole only 1(52/1.000 
of an inch in diameter. c. h. pease. 
Knapsvek Tape of Duster (sec page Jl-io) 
would not be amiss. Weeds in a strawberry field are 
always a problem, and if numerous in matted rows 
aTter the runners have spread they are well nigh a 
calamity. Such calamity is sure to occur if the 
grower resorts to deep cullure with the idea of giv¬ 
ing the young plants deep rooting facilities. The 
deep cultivation will bring up a world of dormant 
weed seed* ai.d trouble is sure to follow. f l he 
proper procedure is shallow cultivation after each 
rain, from the time the plants are set until the run¬ 
ners occupy the ground and there will he compara¬ 
tively little trouble from weeds. If the soil is of 
proper texture for strawberries the roots will pene- 
t rale without dill eulty. 
IT TAKES TIME.—Referring to the first para- 
An“ Emulsion ”For Worms 
In the .Tune number of the-I saw an 
article of considerable length regarding worms and 
mites, written by A. W. Menefee. He states in his 
article that there is on the market an emulsion to be 
fed in the water, so all birds will get it. which kills and 
helps to digest the worms right in the intestines, doing 
ibis by increasing ilie digestive thuds, which will as 
readily digest the worm :. a> any other form of animal 
protein, lime they are killed, this liquid cleans up the 
entire digestive tract, so ihe bird has an unobstructed 
chance lo digest all its own food. 
I have noticed an advertisement of a worm emulsion, 
which 1 enclose, l)o you know anything about this, and 
is i: effective and reliable? Anything new like this I 
do not like to use. unless it is recommended by some¬ 
body reliable. e. J.l. 
1 PKESEMK that you noticed the advertisement of 
the “worm emulsion" in the same journal that 
published the rending article stating that there was 
such an emulsion on the market. It is not impos¬ 
sible that the reading article and the advertisement 
were in such close proximity that one could hardly 
read the one without noting the other. Such coin¬ 
cidences occur in the journals whose financial neces¬ 
sities are such as to preclude any high standards of 
honor in advertising, and whose reading columns 
are as openly for sale for the purpose of concealed 
advertising as their advertising columns are to hon¬ 
estly offered announcements. 
Drugs which kill, or stupefy, intestinal worms, so 
that the latter will he expelled, are known as an¬ 
thelmintics. and there are a number of very efficient 
ones, when properly administered. Some may be 
given in an emulsion, others in simple solution. Oil 
of turpentine is a very generally useful one that 
might In' administered in emulsion. For the round 
worms, which are most common. I know of nothing 
better for thick treatment than tobacco stems made 
into a tea and mixed with the mash, as frequently 
described ill these columns. Tapeworms are less 
often found, and require move vigorous individual 
treatment to rid the fowl of them. I know of no 
drug so simple, tasteless and harmless that it can 
he given in the ordinary drinking water, without 
special effort, and that w-ill at the same time prove 
efficient. If there is an emulsion or other prepara¬ 
tion of such a drug on the market I do not know 
of it M. u. o. 
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