1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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KILLING THE CABBAGE WORM. 
What is the most practical way you have 
found of killing the green worms on cab¬ 
bage plants? The entomologists are now 
suggesting Paris-green for this purpose. 
Do practical men use Paris-green, and if 
so, when and how do they apply it? Could 
it be put on with an ordinary sprayer, 
such as is used for potatoes? What 
strength of Paris-green would you sug¬ 
gest, and what is the latest time that you 
think it would be safe to apply it? 
We have found nothing better than 
Paris-green. We mix the Paris-green 
with twice its bulk of plaster of Paris, 
and blow it on in a dry state. We think 
it will be safe to apply the green till the 
plants are about beginning to head. 
GEO. W. IIALLOCK & SON. 
Keep ’Em Growing. —I have never 
used Paris-green for the green Cabbage 
worm, but should not hesitate to do so 
if occasion required. I should use one 
pound of Paris-green to 50 gallons of 
water, applied with a power sprayer just 
as for bugs on potatoes. It is without 
doubt the most rapid and effective reme¬ 
dy, and perfectly safe until the head 
begins to form. In former years I have 
used insect powder, salt, and both hot 
and cold water. A tablespoonful of salt 
thrown into the head is quite effective. 
Hot water (not boiling) will kill the 
worm, and not injure the plant. Ice-cold 
water applied on a hot day will produce 
a like effect. For 10 years past I have 
used no remedy except very rich soil 
and frequent cultivation, thus keeping 
the plants heading so fast from the in¬ 
side that the worms working from the 
outside make no headway eating against 
the growth. E. C. GILLETT. 
Kerosene and Milk. —The best plan 
I have ever tried or seen for the de¬ 
struction of the Cabbage worm is a mix¬ 
ture of kerosene and milk, put on with 
an ordinary sprayer, one part kerosene 
to five of milk. This is a specific. Paris- 
green can be used with good results, ap¬ 
plied in the same manner as with the 
potato, only about one-half the amount 
used in the potato vines would be suffi¬ 
cient. This pest could be easily exter¬ 
minated by united action on the part of 
the farmers, but it is no earthly use for 
one farmer to destroy, if all his neigh¬ 
bors are breeders. Two years ago a new 
species put in an appearance on Long 
Island (east end) and bid fair to destroy 
the cabbage and cauliflower industry, 
but it was undoubtedly a friend in dis¬ 
guise, for last year we had the least 
trouble for years, and, thus far this sea¬ 
son I have not seen a worm, and but 
few of the butterfly, its parent. While 
I have no authority to speak as an ento¬ 
mologist, my impression is the new¬ 
comer was a parasite, and did its work 
most effectively. c. l. at.i.en. 
Resin Lime Mixture. —In 1898 there 
was prepared here, and used, an emul¬ 
sion, which was named resin and 
lime mixture; it was used in Suffolk 
not be used with arsenites after the 
heads are over one-half or two-thirds 
grown. This is equally good for the 
Cabbage looper worm. This should be 
carefully sprayed the same as Bordeaux, 
the finer the spray the better. 
N. HALLOCK. 
ANTS IN AN ORCHARD. 
C. E. P., Westville, Conn.— What can be 
done with ground infested with ants? We 
have a nice orchard of peaches and plums 
and part of the trees have been in bearing 
four years, the other half being three years 
old this season. Last year the ants start¬ 
ed to honeycomb the ground at about the 
center between four trees, which are 18 
feet apart each way, and they covered that 
space over so that nothing would grow 
there—not even weeds. This season, so 
far, they have spread three times that dis¬ 
tance, and the trees are beginning to look 
sick. If they keep on they will spoil our 
orchard. I have tried several cures, but 
all failed. I thought perhaps some one 
else might have experience in that line, 
that would help me. The ants are me¬ 
dium size and black. 
I never had experience of this sort; 
but what I would try is frequent and 
thorough cultivation. I believe this will 
soon discourage the ants. e. a. w. 
I have had little or no experience in 
this line. At times we have had a few 
peach trees of which the foliage would 
curl badly; the leaves would be covered 
with little lice. The ants are always 
very busy on these, but they seem to be 
working on the lice and using them for 
a purpose, very much the same as we use 
the cow, that is, they get moisture or 
milk from them. I never thought that 
the ants do any harm in the orchard. 
With thorough cultivation, I do not see 
how they can do much damage, e. b. 
Mass. 
My only experience in fighting ants is 
in a badly-infested lawn. In this case 
injections of bisulphide of carbon proved 
effective. With a crowbar make a hole 
in the ant-hill; pour in about one-half 
pint of the bisulphide, and close the 
mouth of the hole with a clod of earth. 
In using the material in question it is 
important to remember that the gas 
given off is very explosive, hence the 
vessel containing it should be kept tight¬ 
ly closed, and matches or lighted lamps 
should be kept away from it. 
Maine. w. m. munson. 
The best known means of killing ants 
in the soil iis bisulphide of carbon. It is 
a very poisonous and highly inflamma¬ 
ble and explosive liquid, which is, how¬ 
ever, harmless if kept from contact with 
fire. If holes are made in the soil where 
the ants have their haunts, and a quan¬ 
tity of the liquid is poured in, and earth 
thrown over it, the fumes will permeate 
the soil and kill all animal life with 
which it comes in contact. “Fuma” is a 
name given it in a perfectly trustworthy 
advertisement in The R. N.-Y., and a 
gallon of this properly applied ought to 
kill the ants in the orchard mentioned. 
There is another method of killing ants 
that is sometimes effectual, and consists 
in soaking large sponges in sweetened 
water and laying them where the ants 
frequent. Wben they are covered with 
ants, as they soon will be, they should 
be dipped in scalding water, and again 
sweetened and replaced. This will soon 
kill the most of them. h. e. v. d. 
Our method of destroying ants in the 
fruit oi chard is to pour a small amount, 
about half an ounce, of bisulphide of 
carbon into the burrows and explode it. 
The explosion forces the gas into all 
parts of the burrows. It is exploded by 
means of a torch on a pole 10 or 12 feet 
long. In a large orchard, badly infested, 
this undoubtedly means a good deal of 
work, but it is very thorough, and in our 
experience, after the orchard is gone 
over, there will be but little trouble from 
the anti for a number of years. 
V. II. LOWE. 
How to Kill Hedgerows. 
I. C. R., Dansville, N. Y .—Can you tell us 
of anything to use to kill hedgerows? We 
bought a rundown farm, and the hedge¬ 
rows had taken possession of a good share 
of It around the edges. We have spent a 
good deal getting them cut down and 
grubbed out, but they are bound to start 
up again. We had intended using salt, 
as the railroad people use it successfully 
along the side of the roadbed to keep down 
%,'eeds, but upon making inquiry as. to the 
price of the waste material, such as the 
railroad people have been getting for the 
loading, the inquiry was referred to the 
headquarters of the salt trust, and we were 
quoted $66.60 per car, with the bluff thrown 
in that as there was such a great demand 
for salt among nurserymen there was no 
necessity of throwing any away. 
Ans.—T he last report of the Vermont 
Experiment Station (Burlington) names 
various substances that will kill plants. 
Kerosene, arsenic, petroleum, carbolic 
acid or sulphuric acid will do the work, 
but may not be cheaper than the salt. 
If you could get a quantity of sludge acid 
—the refuse from making fertilizers—it 
would probably prove cheapest. Yes, in¬ 
deed, th s talk about “great demand” ior 
this salt is most likely a genuine “bluff.” 
Cultivating an Asparagus Bed. 
A. J. N., Knoxville, Tcnn .—How and when 
should I cultivate and fertilize an aspara¬ 
gus bed, after cutting, so as to get a good 
crop next Spring? 
Ans. —Cultivation should be given at 
once when cutting ceases, which is 
usually on the advent of new peas, and 
continue at intervals of 10 days,, or af¬ 
ter each rain, until the latter part of 
August. An application of good stable 
manure at the rate of 10 to 20 tons to the 
acre, or a reliable complete chemical 
fertilizer containing at least four per 
cent of nitrogen, eight of phosphoric 
acid and 10 of potash, at the rate of 
1,000 pounds or more to the acre, may 
be applied between the rows before the 
first cultivation, and thus get well 
mixed in the soil. It is usual to apply 
stable manure broadcast in late Winter, 
as it can he easily hauled over the fro¬ 
zen surface. It is plowed or cultivated 
in as soon as the ground is in good con¬ 
dition to work. 
Rural Life says that It is much easier 
to love your neighbor when he keeps his 
stock at home. 
Texas Stockman remarks that there are 
enough politicians roaming around that 
State to cultivate all the weedy corn and 
cotton, but that how to get them to go to 
work is another thing. 
As evidence of progress in South America, 
it is said that a contract has recently been 
awarded for building 200 miles of railroad 
In Ecuador. The most difficult portion of 
the work will be a tunnel through the 
Andes Mountains. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adw. 
A S much cpOTcASH should be given back 
to the land as the crop takes from it. 
Thirty bushels of whea^t remove thirty 
pounds of ecctuad c POTcASH; therefore 500 
pounds of a*, fertilizer with 6 per cent. 
dLctuaJ ^POTcASH would be 
needed to feed the 
crop and keep the 
soil productive. 
We have books giving full in¬ 
formation about the use of 
fertilizers and Potash, and 
will mail them FREE to any 
farmer who asks for them. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 
93 Nassau Street, New York. 
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County with much success, in cases in¬ 
creasing the cabbage crop from 60 to 100 
per cent. The preparation of a stock 
solution is as follows: Pulverized resin, 
five pounds; concentrated lye, ono 
pound; fish oil, or any cheap animal oil, 
one pint; water, five gallons. It takes 
some time to prepare this mixture. Place 
the oil and resin and one gallon hot 
water in an iron kettle and heat until 
the resin softens; add the solution of 
concentrated lye, or potash is to be care¬ 
fully added. The mixture is then thor¬ 
oughly stirred, then add the other four 
gallons of water. Boil the whole for a 
time until the mixture will make, with 
cold water, a clear, amber-colored liquid. 
After boiling make the amount up to 
full five gallons. Use of stock mixture, 
one gallon; water, 16 gallons; milk of 
lime, three gallons; Paris-green, one- 
quarter pound, or other arsenite. This 
mixture works well on Elm beetles, and 
I think, no doubt, on Potato bugs; it is 
particularly good for cabbage and cauli¬ 
flower, as the resin and lime causes it to 
adhere better to the leaves. It should 
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