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THE RURAL 
SWEETENED POISONS KILL RAILROAD 
WORMS. 
The apple maggot, or railroad worm, 
is a serious pest in the northeastern 
United States and Canada. The princi¬ 
pally infested districts extend from New 
Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario south to 
Pennsylvania and west to Iowa and Wis¬ 
consin, and occasionally in other States. 
It is an American insect, and originally 
lived on the hawthorne and wild crab, 
but has found our cultivated fruits far 
more palatable, so that now it is seldom, 
if ever, found on the wild fruit. So gen¬ 
erally is this insect distributed that in 
New Hampshire 95 per cent, of the or¬ 
chards arc infested, and in other States 
there have been reports of from 50 to 
100 per cent, of the orchards being in¬ 
fested- 
The apple maggot is the larva or worm 
of a small fly about three-eighths of an 
inch long, with its wings mottled or 
striped with black. The larva eats its 
way through the flesh, filling it full of 
small needle-like tunnels, which cause 
the apple to rot prematurely. In the 
Summer, in apples yellow in color, like 
the Sweet Bough, the flesh about the 
point where the egg was deposited be¬ 
comes a dark brown in a few days, and 
when the apple gets near maturity each 
NEW-VORKER 
in which case it should he renewed. The 
sweenening may he added to the Codling 
moth spray if desired. IIow the fly feeds 
may be interesting. When feeding the 
head is occasionally raised, the mouth 
parts are extended and a large drop of 
saliva is forced out and applied to the 
surface of the fruit. This is evidently 
used as a solvent of its food, and is soon 
licked up again. So if the fruit is covered 
with a sweetened poison, it is taken up 
in the saliva and the insect dies. But 
they die slowly; for it takes them hours 
or even days to succumb. However, as 
it is two or three weeks after the adults 
emerge from the ground before they com¬ 
mence egg-laying, one need not worry 
about dying by inches, so long as 
the poison is put on in time. An indi¬ 
vidual fly is callable of laying from three 
to four hundred eggs- 
Cultivation will, no doubt, go a long 
way to hold this pest in shape. They 
usually pupate in the top inch or so of 
soil, hut you cannot destroy them by 
plowing under, for they will not die. 
But if there is maintained on the surface 
of the soil an inch or two of dust mulch 
it may kill them for they do not seem to 
be able to exist in dry soil, even when 
they are in the pupa or clirysal s stage. 
Any reader who wants to learn in detail 
March 7, 
quality, dandelion from nine to 12 cents, 
and poke root, well sliced and cured, 
from four to six cents. Crude drug roots 
are usually bought by sample, which 
should be submitted to the buyer before 
making shipments. v . 
CUCUMBER SPRAYED FOR BLIGHT WITH BORDEAUX. 
of the tunnels is easily followed by the 
dark brown flesh encircling it. 
The Hies appear in New York State 
according to Mr. James F. Illingworth, 
who has made a very complete study of 
this pest, from about the middle of June 
onward. The insects seem to adapt 
themselves to the variety on which they 
are growing, appearing early or late ac¬ 
cording to whether they are infesting 
Summer or Winter apples. The first to 
appear, those infesting the early Summer 
apples, usually are responsible for a 
second brood. Not all the pupae from 
these first larvae come out the same Sum¬ 
mer, however. But at least about 30 
per cent, do, so there is a continual in¬ 
festation from the early Summer onward 
in the neglected orchards. 
In the past the standard method of 
holding the apple maggot in check has 
been to pick up the fruit and destroy it. 
hut nobody has ever been nearly success¬ 
ful with this method for some reason, 
probably because it has never been thor¬ 
ough enough. Even having stock in the 
orchard—which I do not advise—to eat 
the fallen fruit has not proved success¬ 
ful. as the animals seem to get a surfeit 
of fruit, leaving some on the ground. If 
you do not believe in spraying, to be suc¬ 
cessful the Summer apples like the Sweet 
Bough, or Red Astrachan, should be 
picked ui> twice a week; Autumn varie¬ 
ties. like Maiden Blush and Duchess of 
Oldenburg, once a week; and the Winter 
sorts need to have their drops picked 
only once a fortnight. These drops must 
he destroyed. 
The picking up of the drops is a great 
deal of work and expensive. Spraying 
is easier and cheaper. In a well-cared- 
for orchard where the trees are sprayed 
for the second brood of Codling moth, 
sometime' in June, there should he little 
or no damage from the apple maggot. 
But should there be, then make two or 
three subsequent sprayings, using sweet¬ 
ened arsenate of lead. All flies like sweets 
and this fly is no exception. Mix it as 
follows: 25 pounds of cheap molasses 
or confectioners’ glucose, five pounds 
arsenic of lead (paste) in 100 gallons of 
water. This may be washed off by rain. 
of the experiments which were conducted 
to prove that spraying will hold the apple 
maggot in check, should apply to the Cor¬ 
nell Experiment Station. Ithaca, N. Y., 
for bulletin 329. p. t. b. 
Gathering Medicinal Roots. 
Can you give me any information on 
drying and care of roots, such as burdock, 
etc., or can you direct me to buyers of 
such? I understand the U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture issues a pamphlet 
bearing on care of such roots, u. c. M. 
Goshen, N. Y. 
Medicinal roots, such as burdock, yel¬ 
low dock, poke and dandelion, when col¬ 
lected for the drug market, are best dug 
in late Fall or early Spring before growth 
has started. They should be freed from 
all earth and foreign matter, such as 
stones, sticks and hits of other vegeta¬ 
tion, and especially with the dock and 
dandelion, from the necks or tops, which 
turn black in drying. Curing is effected 
l>y drying on racks or lath screens, or in 
thin layers on clean, well-ventilated barn 
floors or lofts. The large pieces should 
he split or sliced to facilitate drying, 
which requires from three to six weeks, 
according to the weather and character 
of the roots. They should he turned once 
or twice daily until thoroughly cured, 
when they should readily snap if bent. 
If dried out of doors they should he ex¬ 
posed to light and air, hut as a rule 
shielded from direct sunlight, and he 
well covered at night and during moist, 
rainy weather. Artificial heat from 
stove or steiim piping in a well ventilated 
room is very effective in finishing the 
curing process. Moderate temperatures, 
rarely exceeding 85 degrees, are safest 
for this process. Cured root should he 
stored in a dry, airy place, free from 
vermin, until ready for shipment, which 
may be made in clean bags or dry, clean 
barrels. The market is with the crude 
drug dealers found in most large cities. 
The price paid to collectors or growers of 
drug plants vary according to the abund¬ 
ance or scarcity of the species and the 
labor involved in getting the material 
ready for market, and are often distress¬ 
ingly small. Dock root ranges from three 
to five cents the pound, according to 
Compact Lettuce Wanted. 
In setting out lettuce, is there any- 
thing; that can bo done to make it como 
to a more compact head? j. b. 
The above question is rather vague as 
to its exact meaning, as there are two 
classes of lettuce grown, the head var¬ 
ieties and the non-heading or loose varie¬ 
ties. For the first class, or head varieties, 
good soil, proper care and seasonable 
weather are required to make good solid 
heads. This second class or non-heading 
varieties, will not produce good heads un 
dor any conditions. To grow good head 
lettuce the ground should be heavily 
dressed with well-rotted manure, spaded 
or plowed in, and if available apply a 
good wheelbarrow load of hen manure to 
each 250 square feet of surface, and work 
well into the soil. Set out this first batch 
of plants as early as it can be safely done. 
A second planting may bo made 10 days 
or two weeks later. For several years I 
have made it a practice to make not over 
two plantings of plants raised in the hot¬ 
bed, but sow the seed thinly in drills in 
the open ground where the plants are to 
stand. The first sowing is usually made 
about the middle of May. When the 
plants are about two inches high, they 
are thinned out to stand six to eight 
inches apart in the row. The plants re¬ 
moved are fed to the chickens or thrown 
away. By this method of planting, the 
plant’s growth is not checked, and they 
will make more good heads and in much 
shorter time than by any other method of 
handling. The May King and New York 
lettuce handled in this way will make 
a goodly percentage of fair-sized heads, 
during the hot weather of Summer, if 
not allowed to suffer for * water and 
properly cultivated. Lettuce should be 
cultivated every seven to 30 days if good 
solid heads are expected. The following 
sorts of head lettuce are standards for 
productiveness and excellence of quality: 
May King (first early). Big Boston and 
Salamander (second early). New York 
(main crop). k. 
Spring Seeding to Grass. 
I have a piece of land with a south¬ 
ern exposure that I limed well last 
Spring. Then I plowed and harrowed it. 
and sowed it with corn and planted one- 
third with potatoes. It has a sandy loam 
soil. I would like to sow it with grass., 
so I can get a good crop of hay next 
Summer. It is now just as I left it with 
the corn stubble. j. n. a. 
Danbury, Conn. 
This Connecticut inquirer cau hardly 
expect a good hay crop by seeding in the 
Spring with the ordinary grasses and 
clovers alone. If tin 1 land is manured 
after plowing and the seeding can be 
done quite early this method might give 
good results in wet seasons, hut generally 
it is better to seed with a grain crop 
grown for hay. I would advise seeding 
with oats, two bushels per acre, and 
Spring vetch seed one-half bushel per 
acre, and add to these one peck of Tim¬ 
othy. two quarts of Red-top, and 10 
pounds of a mixture of six or seven 
pounds Red clover, four quarts, and four 
or three pounds Alsike clover, two quarts. 
Of course if a grain drill is used the oats 
and vetch seed should he sown in the 
grain seeds and the clover and grasses in 
the grass seeds. The oats and vetch 
will make excellent hay for cattle or 
horses, and the crop can he got off the 
land by the 30th to the 15th of July in 
Southern Connecticut, then giving the 
clovers and grasses a good chance to make 
a heavy growth before Winter. With 
the chances of dry season during May 
and June a Spring-sown crop of meadow 
grasses and clovers is quite an uncertain¬ 
ty, so that it is usually safer to grow a 
cereal crop as hay, and to depend on the 
balance of the season to develop the hay 
crop. c. s. PHEI.PS. 
“Road building requires a great deal of 
study.” “Yes,” replied Farmer Corntos- 
sel; “out our way everybody got to study- 
in’ how he could get a salary out of the 
fund before anybody was paid to get out 
an’ work. The trouble with the study of 
road building is that too much of it is 
mental arithmetic.”—Washington Star. 
