1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
669 
EVERYBODY’S GARDEN. 
Cabbage Lice. —We have them in plenty 
and whether or no they are going to put 
us out of the cabbage business remains to 
be seen. They came suddenly and for the 
past week they have been making it lively 
for us. We have used salt in large doses, 
and it kills where it hits, but does not 
reach the entire plant. It is applied while 
the dew is on or else we sprinkle the 
plants before putting on the salt. Ker¬ 
osene emulsion is helpful, but we have to 
keep going over the ground to watch the 
new colonies. We are now for the first 
time adding pyrethrum, an ounce or more 
to each gallon of the stock mixture. This 
was very satisfactorily done by adding 
the powder previous to churning through 
the sprayer. The leaves that are too badly 
infected are gathered in a tub and burned. 
I think that if the ants and the little black 
Hies that dance attendance upon them 
were well got rid of, we would have a 
much easier task with the lice. They, I 
think, are accountable for the rapid spread 
of the insect, or much of it at least. As 
yet the damage has been chiefly confined 
to the cabbage; but few of the insects ap¬ 
pearing on the Brussels sprouts, and none 
upon the cauliflower. 
Chows and Melons. —Since the early 
Spring three or four crows have kept busy 
most of the time in a portion of the gar¬ 
den some distance from the house. They 
seemed content to let the crops alone and 
did no mischief whatever until a piece oi 
late fodder corn was planted. They pulled 
up a little, but the damage was not worth 
mentioning, but recently they have been 
plugging watermelons, and we are not 
pleased with their work. The damage is not 
serious, as but few have been disturbed. 
At present we are keeping them off with 
scarecrows erected here and there. By 
changing the costume of our straw guard¬ 
ians occasionally we hope to keep them at 
bay. 
The Vine Crops. —These are doing 
finely, and we believe much credit is due 
to mulching. In the driest weather the 
leaves never wilted for a day, and while 
growth was much less than desirable, it 
was not at a dead standstill at any time, 
so that when the rains did come they made 
rapid growth, and promise us fine crops 
now. Doubtless the mulching of other 
crops would have paid equally well, and 
we propose to do more of it in future. In 
fact, our operations in this line have been 
quite extended when we take all the fruit 
trees, vine and bush fruits that have been 
mulched into consideration. 
Second Crop Peas. —For the first time 
in our experience we have had two crops 
of peas from one sowing. The second 
crop is not large, but it is sufficiently so 
to afford 11 s several pickings for home use. 
T his has not been true of one variety 
alone, but three at least, McLean’s Ad¬ 
vancer, Shropshire Hero and Horsford’s 
Market Garden have all done equally well. 
After the picking season was over the 
vines were left standing to ripen the re¬ 
mainder of the peas for seed. I he ground 
had been kept very clean, and the second 
growth of vines gave such promise that 
after mowing off the first crop I cultivated 
and hoed the rows, which were equally as 
good a stand as that from the Spring sow¬ 
ing. Llad wet weather come earlier there 
would doubtless have been quite a crop, 
but as it is the growth has exceeded any¬ 
thing I have ever seen, and is, I think, 
worthy of note. J. E. morse. 
Michigan. 
Starting Cuttings of Apples. 
G. V. B., Hackensack, N. J .—What are the 
cuttings of apple trees recommended for 
planting in the “New Horticulture” eight 
inches long, with square ends? Must they la; 
01 ' current season’s growth? Is it practicable 
(o grow such cuttings in this latitude? 
A ns. —While I mention two very large 
apple trees in Galveston Co., Texas, that 
were grown from cuttings where they 
stand, and also describe fully how to grow 
Le Conte and Kieffer pears from cuttings 
in the far South, I make no other allusion 
than the above to growing apple trees 
thus . However, it G. V. B. is willing to 
experiment, he may learn something. Dur¬ 
ing Fall the earth is a natural hotbed. 
Let him right now make a tight frame to 
fit an ordinary window or other sash, out 
of 1x12 plank. Set it on the ground in a 
well-drained place and fill with clean sand, 
so that after being thoroughly saturated 
with water, the surface will be about three 
inches from the glass. Next select shoots 
that have completed their growth, from the 
Kieffer pear or whatever kind of apple he 
wishes to grow, strip off the leaves and 
make the cuttings about four inches long, 
either square or sloping at the ends. Stick 
the whole bed full an inch or two apart 01 
less, if afraid to risk so many, leaving 
only one bud just above ground. Saturate 
the bed again and put on the sash. Keep 
it down day and night, watering often 
enough to keep the surface wet, but with 
water exposed to the sun. Cover with 
some kind of cloth at night to retain the 
heat. A bed so treated here would grow 
nearly every cutting. Leaves will put out 
very quickly first and roots will follow, 
and a growth of several inches made be¬ 
fore freezing weather. By Spring the tops 
and roots will be matured and the little 
trees can be lined out in nursery rows. Ot 
course the sash must be kept down all the 
Winter up there, and covering of some 
kind sufficient to prevent severe freezing. 
The experiment is well worth trying ana 
I feel sure it will succeed. 
H. M. STRINGFELLOW. 
Fumigating Old Houses. 
C. C., Few Rochelle, N. Y .—Will you give 
directions for making habitable a farmhouse 
which has been occupied by an undesirable 
class of tenants? I want to fumigate it for 
disease germs, for insects (bedbugs, etc.) 
and to deodorize it thoroughly. I am thor 
oughly familiar with hydrocyanic acid gas 
methods for the bugs, but do not know how 
to proceed in regard to disease germs, or 
which should be done first. The place has 
usually the ill-kept smell of such buildings, 
and I thought of treating walls, ceilings, etc., 
to a spray pump dose of a good deodorizer and 
disinfectant, and when dry, paper and pain! 
the whole place and scrub the floors with a 
solution of the stuff used on the walls. Would 
these two treatments meet the three require¬ 
ments, and which should be done first? The 
stable also requires treatment. It is 1G feet 
square and so full of cracks and holes tlial 
I doubt the efficacy of the hydrocyanic acid 
gas treatment, as it would be very difficult 
to make it tight. It has been used as a hen¬ 
house, and is in a terrible condition. I have 
an Italian there now tearing out floor and 
everything inside except the walls, and will 
fill in a dirt floor to top of sills and put some 
paper over the outside and then tear the whole 
place down in the Spring, but I must get 
through the Winter with it fit to put my 
horse into some way. The place fairly 
crawls! 1 am sending an order to a New 
York wholesale druggist for enough chemicals 
to annihilate all the Russians and Japanese 
together. Both barn and house are creepy 
places, but this is a case of Pike's Peak or 
bust. The Italian does not seem to mind it— 
like yours, his one Idea seems to. be “who 
paya da nuin?" and his whole stock of Eng¬ 
lish consists of “all right” and “birneby,” and 
I regret to say that unless 1 am on the spot 
to watch, most of the results are “birneby.” 
Ans. —The fumes of hydrocyanic acid 
gas will kill the bedbugs if the rooms are 
made airtight before using. The disease 
germs may be killed by burning formalde 
hyde candles in the rooms. These candles 
are sold at most drug stores. They give 
off a gas that penetrates into cracks ana 
holes. You can also spray or wash the 
insides of the rooms with a solution of 
corrosive sublimate in water, or a solu¬ 
tion of Zenolcum. The lime and sulphur 
wash which we have often described will 
also destroy disease germs. We would 
first use the hydrocyanic acid gas. then 
spray or wash with the corrosive sub¬ 
limate. and then use the formaldehyde can¬ 
dles. We would use the lime and sulphui 
wash inside this house. Spray or swab 
this wash all over into every crack and 
crevice. "Hie insects cannot possibly live 
if this biting fluid is put over them. We 
would spray twice, about 10 days apart, 
'l ake out everv movable thing inside and 
either clean it thoroughly or build new 
fixtures. That Italian might well be 
sprayed too, or he will- infect the neigh¬ 
borhood. 
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