THE RURAL HEW-YORXER. 
wings are dusky. There are two broods. The 
moths are flying in earl}' Spring and in July. 
The caterpillars are small, about one-half inch 
long when full-grown. Like all larvae of 
the Tortricids, or Leaf-rollers, they have 16 
legs. They vary much in color, from brown 
or yellow to green. They will be seen feeding 
in May and June, and again the second brood 
in July and August. 
As we find true of almost all Leaf-rollers, 
these larvae roll up the leaves as they feed. 
These leaf cylinders are held by threads of 
silk. Thus the insects live in a green house, 
which serves them not only for food but for 
shelter as well. This feeding upou the leaf 
causes it to turn brown and to wither. The 
insect pupates within the rolled leaf, where the 
chrysalis may be found in late June or at the 
close of the harvest. Saunders advises the use 
of hellebore to kill the pests, but I have not 
found it effective. Neither has pyrethrum 
served the purpose. The larva is so well pro¬ 
moted that it is difficult to reach it, as we 
must to make buhach a sure remedy. Paris- 
green dusted on to the leaves in May will kill 
the insects: but, of course, it can not be used 
on beds where the berries are soon to be used. 
When beds are in bearing, so that we can not 
use Paris-green, we can fight only the second 
brood. There are two ways which I have tried 
with marked success. First, sprinkle a light 
coating of straw over the beds as soon as the 
berries are picked, and set fire to it. This 
destroys the insects, now in the larval or 
chrysalis state, and as the vines seem little 
injured, we seem to have solved the difficulty. 
The other remedy is the use of London-purple 
just as the second brood commeucos to work— 
late in July in Michigan ami Wisconsin. As 
the insects are so snugly rolled up. the poison 
does not get where all can or will eat it, and 
so, on the whole, the burning has given the 
best satisfaction. As a small parasite is des¬ 
troying these insects in great numbers, it may 
be well not to burn over the beds, except 
where the insects ore very troublesome. 
SWEENY. 
Subscriber, Blue Hall, Fair mount, W. Va. 
—What will cure sweeny caused by a sprain 
a month ago? 
ANSWERED BY F. L. KILBORNE. 
If there is still any heat, swelling or tender- 
mss over the shoulder, keep the animal quiet, 
and bind a wet blanket over the seat of injury 
until relieved. When these symptoms have 
disappeared, allow' daily walking exorcise on 
level ground or road. Rub the wasting 
muscles briskly for 15 or 20 minutes each 
night and morning with a hard-twisted wisp 
of hay or straw; or apply u mild blister of 
equal parts of strong ammonia and sweet oil, 
to be repeated as soon as the effect of one ap¬ 
plication has disappeared. Several weeks 
will probably bo necessary to effect a complete 
recovery, but this simple treatment should lie 
sufficient for so recent a case. The animal 
should not ho worked On miry or uneven 
ground or be put to the plow for more than a 
year after recovery, as by so doing the animal 
will L»e very liable to be sweeuied again. 
THE VETCH. 
.7. ,/. »S’. t Columinis. On, —The “'pea” sent us 
is the common vetch or tare. It is much culti¬ 
vated in Europe and latterly in many parts of 
the South. In good soils It grows two or 
three feet high. The stems are tender and 
soft and cattle love it. It is an annual, flower¬ 
ing in May in Georgia, the sei'ds ripening iu 
the course of the Summer. Then the plaut 
dies. Toward Autumn the seed germinates 
and the young plants grow slowly nil Winter, 
running up rapidly iu early Spring. It may 
be cultivated profitably iu the South as an 
early spring forage plant, anil also he cured as 
hay for winter use. Later in the season the 
cow-pea is the favorite. The botanical name 
of this vetch is V icia sativa. 
GREEN I.ICK ON APPLE AND PLUM TREKS. 
A. S., Beech wood. —Green lice on apple and 
plum trees seek the twigs and tender shoots, 
suck their juices and thus live. The remedy 
is to spray them with tobacco tea, or to dip the 
infested tangs into the tea. Wo have tried 
nearly everything to kill these pests, and find 
that when trees or large bushes are attacked 
the best way is to “grin and bear it," In the 
c .se of rose bushes aud smaller plants, we 
spray them, us stated, with tobacco tea or with 
pyrethrum powder nud water, or blow the 
powder upon them. Paris-green does not kill 
them since they suck the juices. When the 
tips of the twigs arc alone infested, it is well 
to pinch them off or destroy them. The black 
ants you mention as attending the lice mere¬ 
ly squeeze the latter, which thereupon yield 
up a liquid which the nuts relish. 
DEATH TO THE CURRANT WORM. 
./. IK., Sand Lake, N, V .—There are several 
ways of killing the currant worm. The best 
is to use powdered white hellebore. Put two 
tablespoonfuls in a pint of hot water. Mix 
and add this to two gallons of water. Spray 
the bushes with this. It is an absolute specific. 
A spraying bellows (Woodason’s for sale by 
seedsmen), a hand force pump with cyclone 
nozzle, or, finally, a watering (flower; pot. 
Buhach or pyrethrum powder, used in the 
same way, answers very well. 
Miscellaneous. 
S. C., Davenport, Washington Ter.— 1. 
What is the best way to root cuttings which 
are difficult to root? 2. How can onions lie kept 
overWinter? 3. Will Tall Oat Grass endure 
drought and summer frosts? 
Ans.— 1. By layering, i. e., bending down a 
branch and burying a part of it. 2. Spread 
the onions 12 to 18 inches deep on a tight floor 
or loft in a dry barn or shed. Cover them 
with a foot or more of straw or hay. and don’t 
disturb them till Spring. They will be in¬ 
jured if allowed to freeze and thaw alternate¬ 
ly; but not if after freezing once, they are 
kept from thawing until wanted. 3. Tall Oat 
Grass stands summer heat well in Alabama, 
and is prized iu New England. Of late years 
good accounts of it. come from Michigan. 
Prof. Shelton regards it favorably for Kansas; 
Mr. Wysor objects to it for Virginia as not as 
good as Timothy, os a great impoverisher of 
the soil, as not relished by cattle if they can get 
Timothy and clover. But to answer our 
friend, it would seem that this grass has great 
power of endurance. 
“ Subscriber " Home, Tenn. —A large goli- 
bler began losing feathers from his breast last 
December, and has continued to do so ever 
since. The exposed flesh is puffy, soft and 
red; otherwise he is in good health aud 
thrifty. What’s the matter? 
Ans. —If the turkey has never moulted, 
being in his second year, there may be several 
causes for the trouble. First, the turkey hens 
or barnyard hens may pick off the feathers. 
Second, it may he caused by the roosts, as he 
may have some peculiarity iu roosting, there¬ 
by rubbing off the new feathers as fast as 
they appear. Third, it may be due to a para¬ 
sitic disease. We would suggest anointing 
the parts, once or twice a week, with a mix¬ 
ture of 10 drops of carbolic acid in a table¬ 
spoonful of glycerine. 
J. B. F., Sinynna, Del .—Gooseberries plant¬ 
ed in the Fall of 1882, are heaved up every 
Winter, until now many plants have only a 
bare bold in the ground. I am thinking of 
running a peach tree cutter under them next 
Fall and resetting; would I lose next year's 
fruit crop by so doing? 
Ans.—W e are afraid we do not understand 
the question Any injury to the stems or 
necks of gooseberries would injure the roots, in 
which case they would not descend deeply 
into the soil, ami might be thrown out by the 
alternations of frosts and thaws of Winter and 
Spring. The best thing to do is to cut them 
hack in the Fall to within three inches of the 
soil, and cover them with a mulch of straw 
or manure. You wall lose next year's crop. 
G. M. IK., Johnstown, Pa. —Last Summer I 
planted a lot of potted strawberry plants 
which throve well till they had attained a fine 
growth, when the leaves began to wither and 
shrivel. Examination of plants and roots 
could detect no insect enemy. Now they are 
in bloom ami mauy have large berries, but 
here and there they are suffering as they did 
last year. What is the matter? 
Ans. —We have never had a similar experi¬ 
ence, aud can not give our friend any informa¬ 
tion. Perhaps some of our readers can answer 
the question. 
T. M. I., Steuben Co,, N. l r .—A breed of 
cattle, “good milkers aud fair for beef, to be 
used in supplying milk to a factory, princi¬ 
pally for cheese,” will be found in Holstein- 
Friesions, For all practical purposes three- 
quarter grades will do as well as thorough¬ 
breds. Cows from a good Holstein bull out of 
grade Short-horns would come as near to the 
animals you require as any we eau think of. 
Hereford cows are not suited for the dairy. 
They have been bred for beef aud for early 
maturity, and even their champions claim 
nothing for them as dairy animals. 
R. IK. H., Jasper Steuben Co., N. I'.—1. 
Is the Maushury Barley better for feeding 
purposes than the common six-rowed kind? 
2. Does it yield more? 
' Ans.— 1. Yes, it is a plumper, heavier bar¬ 
ley und weighs more per bushel, and. of 
course, it, bus more flour in proportion to the 
hull. 2. Yes, nearly one-half more; two 
years ago we harvested 517 bushels from seven 
acres. Anyone is foolish to try to raise com¬ 
mon hurley when he can get this. 
T. F. B., Wolf's Store, l'a .—Your chickens 
are troubled with roup. Change the feed aud 
give cooked feed, vegetables, green food and 
rice. Dissolve a dram of chlorate of potash 
in each pint of drinking water. Bathe the 
heads in water slightly tinctured with vinegar. 
Put a little cayenne pepper into the feed. Re¬ 
move the sick fowls from the flock, and put 
them in a dry, sunny place. 
Subscriber (address mislaid). —Will corn- 
fodder keep (if cut, sweated and salted, or air- 
slake limed and put in a mow) like clover hay? 
Ans. —We do not know that the plan has 
ever been tried. We do not see how this sys¬ 
tem would give any advantage over results 
now obtained with the silo. 
C. R., Battle River , Dak. —The few kernels 
of grain sent resemble the Diamond or Polish 
Wheat. It is known by mauy other names. 
It is a spring kind and bearded, with wide, 
peculiar chaff. 
E. Moore, Jefferson Co. —We know nothing 
of the “Earhart cap raspberry." Plants are 
grooving in the Rural Grounds and we hope to 
report upon them in due time. 
DISCUSSION. 
T. H. H., Newport, Vt.—I n answer to an 
inquiry, a late Rural says:— 
Hen manure ami ashes, bones, etc., ns fertilizers 
cannot be coni parol since hen ami barnyard manure 
are camp etc manures, furnishing all needed kinds of 
plant fb0H, Ashes and bones are not complete. To 
get. the equivalent or hmi mauure, raw bone flour 
and ashes with the addition of more nitrogen than 
the bones contain should be used. 
Does not the Rural, in the above quoted 
remarks, confound a complete manure with a 
well balanced mauure ? Ashes with raw bones 
are complete, i. e„ they contain phosphoric 
acid, potash and combined nigrogen. They 
do not constitute a well balanced fertilizer: 
but no more is barn manure, and still less is 
ben mauure. This subject of well balanced 
fertilizers has not been sufficiently pressed up¬ 
on the farming public. A badly balanced 
manure is used at a loss, often a large one,and 
farmers should be made to understand fully 
this important point in farm ecouomy. Near¬ 
ly all animal manures have an excess of nitro¬ 
gen—often a large excess, and phosphoric acid 
in some form should be almost invariably 
used with tflern. To understand this, and to 
know' how to make any manure, whether com¬ 
plete or incomplete, closely adapted to a par¬ 
ticular soil or crop, are very nice, and 
very important points of husbandry, 
R. N.-Y.—The question was as to the com¬ 
parative value of hen manure, ashes, bones, 
etc., separately, not as to the value or results 
of a mixture of any two or more. This would 
have been more plainly indicated, if instead 
of “ashes and bones are not complete," we 
bad said, “Neither ashas nor bones," ect. The 
other poiuts which Dr. Hoskins makes should 
be studied by every farmer. Hen mauure or 
farm manure of any kind fails to have the 
same effect on different soils, for the reason 
that some soils need more or less of the food 
constituents which are lacking or abundant in 
those soils. To feed the soil just what it needs 
is the great economical problem. 
C. E. P., Queens, N. Y.—In the Rural 
for May 29th, “Workman" advises us to clean 
out the refuse of the hay, straw, etc., that can 
be found in the lofts and on the barn floor, 
and to place it on the manure pile. Such a 
cleaning would be found to be a very profit¬ 
able job for a rainy day; but 1 certainly 
would not advise anyone to place such refuse 
on a mauure pile unless it is his intention to 
fill his fields with a great man}’ troublesome 
weeds. Such refuse will, if closely examined, 
be found to contain seeds of many of our most 
troublesome weeds, such as daisies, snapdra¬ 
gon. wild onions, etc, and to place them on a 
manure pile whore they will rera in their vi¬ 
tality and be distributed among the crops is 
certainly, to say the least, a very foolish 
piece of work. All such refuse should be 
burned if possible, or else buried very deep, 
and it will be well to destroy all vegetation 
that might spring up around the place for 
some time afterwards. Most farmers are very 
careless in this respect, and are forever com¬ 
plaining of the constant increase of weeds on 
their farms, when iu very many cases they 
have no one to blame but themselves, and the 
exercise of a little care and forthought on 
their part, would certainly prove to be very 
profitable to them in this respect at least. 
C. M., Onondaga Co., N. Y.—A late F. C, 
spoke of the reason why the leaves of some 
pear trees turned black. I attribute it to high 
winds. The leaves were tender owing to their 
fast growth. Here we hail a like experience. 
When the leaves had spread fully, a high 
gale lasted 24 hours, and all tender growth 
showed the effects of the severe whip¬ 
ping. Rasplerry bushes were torn, as the 
leaves were badly lieaten against the briars, 
aud the maple trees looked as if the army 
worm had stripped them, 
Communications Rkcxivkd for the Week Espino 
June 11. issfi. 
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E. W.—W. Z. H. A. L.-W. l\ D.-W. A. B.—S. J. C.— 
N. E. W.-P. S.-I. C. R.-H. R. W.-L. C.-W. R. F.— 
D. P. P.—H. A. C.-A. M. K.-W. O. B. C.-E. A. P,—J. 
D.-W. P, L.-W- H. S.—H. H.^T. H. B.-O. E.P.-W. T. 
P. H. J. H. S. A louse B., thunks. J. C. O.—H, S. H. 
G. M.-E. D. -F. 8. P.-R. V D.-J. G.-J. B. P. S.-A. 
M. —J. T.—J, H.-A- p. A. a. U. “Gray Beard,”—L. P. 
N. —the I‘cun weevil, no doubt,—'W. F. lv.—H. E. W., 
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