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HENHOUSE WITH CEMENT FLOOR. 
L am going to build a henhouse, and 
would like your opinion : I intended to put 
it on a concrete wall, with a cement floor, 
and then, in the Fall, put five or six inches 
if road dirt on the floor. Do you think 
it would! be too damp for the hens to do 
well? w. h. e. 
Wolcott, N. Y. 
This plan is all right; I would cer¬ 
tainly use the concrete walls and cement 
floor. I would not use the road dirt un¬ 
less I could not get any other litter to 
cover the cement with. No dampness 
can come through a good- cement floor. 
The only thing against it- is it is cold, 
but anyone who will let hens stand on 
a bare floor does not deserve to have 
hens. Four or five inches of a good 
straw litter is the best covering. If you 
cannot get this, get shavings; if you 
cannot get anything else, use the road 
dirt, but only as a last resource. 
FLOYD B. WHITE. 
Killing White Grubs. 
B. O. C. (Vo Address ).—My garden is 
about ruined with grub worms and I have 
tried everything I know of, but of no avail. 
Can you suggest anything to destroy them? 
I have just tried an electric worm erad- 
icator, which is no good, wood ashes, lime, 
and bran with Paris green, but still they 
eat. 
A ns. —We assume that you refer to 
white grubs. Poisons are of little use 
in fighting them, as they work below 
ground. In order to affect them with 
salt or ashes you would have to use 
.enough to spoil the land for cropping. 
The life history of this grub runs over 
several years. Thorough and constant 
culture of the surface soil is the best 
method of fighting them, as this kills 
young insects. It does not kill out the 
older ones, and they will continue their 
injury until they die naturally. Dig¬ 
ging and hand picking will kill many, 
and Fall plowing or spading will help, 
but thorough culture long continued is 
the best remedy. 
Summer Pruning Apple Trees. 
L. V. A., Bharpaburg , Kg .—I would like 
some advice in regard to pruning apple 
trees. I have a young orchard that has 
been set about six years; the trees arc very 
rank and vigorous, and the limbs are very 
thick. The trees are low-beaded. Will it 
be all right to trim them in June, and will 
that keep the water sprouts from starting 
out? Trees have never borne any yet. 
Ans. —For more than 40 years I have 
been pruning fruit trees in midsummer 
and I like it done at that time. My 
old preceptor, Dr. J. A. Warder of Ohio, 
set me at it first in his own orchard in 
1867, and he told me it was his choice 
of all times of the year, especially for 
apple and pear trees. The wounds heal 
up very quickly and almost no suckers 
or watersprouts result from the cutting 
away of the large branches that it may 
be necessary to remove. Many who 
know their trees need pruning think 
they must do it only in the Spring or 
Winter when the trees are dormant, but 
this is a great mistake. Of course the 
greatest care should be used to prevent 
cutting off large branches, for every cut 
is a stroke at the life of the tree, but 
it may be necessary and for its ultimate 
if not present good to remove branches 
that are too near or colliding with 
others. Common sense and moderation 
must be used in pruning, but there is 
no use to delay it until Winter or 
Spring if there is time to do it in Sum¬ 
mer. H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Rose Bugs. 
I have a cherry tree which is attacked 
year after year by rose bugs so as to ruin 
the foliage and fruit. Is there uo way of 
fighting this pest? k. 
New York. 
The Rose-chafer is a rather large, com¬ 
mon beetle that occurs in great numbers 
on various plants, usually in June. These 
beetles appear in such great numbers, and 
remain so short a time that it is practi¬ 
cally impossible to fight them with an 
arsenical spray. They breed in sandy 
places, and the grubs live in the soil upon 
the roots of various grasses. There are no 
very good methods of controlling this pest 
except by collecting the beetles by hand, 
whioli can sometimes be done very effect¬ 
ively on low-growing plants. Occasionally, 
a few grapevines or rose bushes or similar 
plants are protected by actually placing 
netting over them until the beetles have 
come and gone. If the cherry tree in 
question is not too large this might be 
done. It will do no good to spray them 
because they come in such immense 
swarms. In the long run their breeding 
places should be hunted up, and the land 
should be plowed in the Fall and in the 
Spring, in order to destroy as many of the 
grubs as possible. Other than this I have 
nothing to suggest regarding the control of 
this insect. glenn w. jierrick. 
Alfalfa and Drain Tile. 
Would some one advise me whether Alfal¬ 
fa roots will get into drain tile to do any 
damage to the drainage, where the tile is 
laid only 1 % to two feet under the sur¬ 
face? I have one line of tile that comes 
as near the surface as tills for 100 rods 
through my Alfalfa field. i>. p. s. 
Perry, N. Y. 
We understand that Alfalfa roots mil 
sometimes enter tile, where the water runs 
constantly, due either to springs or not 
enough tile. The roots seldom grow into 
tile which are dry. 
Weevils in Peas. 
Will you tell me how to treat peas for 
weevils? w. e. 
Ovid, N. Y. 
Weevils in grain or seeds are destroyed 
by fumigation with bisulphide of carbon. 
Put the infested material in a tight box, 
bin or pail, put on top of the peas a shal¬ 
low saucer, and pour into this some of the 
chemical, then close the container tightly, 
and leave closed for 24 to 36 hours. The 
gas given off is heavier than air, and per¬ 
meates the contents of the container. Do 
not bring lighted pipe or any other light 
near the bisulphide, as it is highly in¬ 
flammable. 
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