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Incubation and Gestation Tables
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Ostriches 40-42 da
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Camel 11-12 months
Ass
12 months
Mare 11 months Pri Bro
Cow
9 months
Sheep
5 months
Goat
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Bitch
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Cat
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Rabbit 30 days
Guinea pig
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FARMERS' BULLETINS Sent Free to Residents of the United States, by Department of Agriculture Washington, D. C., on Application.
NOTE .- Some nmmbers omitted are no longer published. Bulletins in this list will be sent free, so ong as the supply lasts, to any resident of the United States, on application to his Senator, Representa- ive, or Delegate in Congress, or to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Because of the imited supply, applicants are urged to select only a few numbers, choosing those which are of special nterest to them. Residents of foreign countries should apply to the Superintendent of Documents, Gov- rnment Printing Office, Washington, D. C., who has these bulletins for sale. Price, 5 cents each to Canada, Cuba, and Mexico: 6 cents to other foreign countries.
:2. The Feeding of Farm Animals.
7. Flax for Seed and Fiber. ar
8. Weeds: And How to Kill Them.
0. Grape Diseases on the Pacific Coast. 4. Meats: Composition and Cooking.
5. Potato Culture.
6. Cotton Seed and Its Products.
4. Commercial Fertilizers.
8. The Manuring of Cotton.
1. Standard Varieties of Chickens. 2. The Sugar Beet.
4. Some Common Birds.
5. The Dairy Herd.
1. Asparagus Culture.
2. Marketing Farm Produce.
4. Ducks and Geese.
7. The Liming of Soils.
1. Corn Culture in the South.
5. Fish as Food.
6. Thirty Poisonous Plants.
3. Alkali Lands.
1. Potato Diseases and Treatment.
9. Insect Enemies of Shade Trees. 1. Millets.
4. Notes on Frost.
6. Breeds of Dairy Cattle.
3. The Apple and How to Grow It.
3. Grape Growing in the South.
L. Beans, Peas, and Other Legumes as Food.
3. Suggestions for Farm Buildings.
7. Important Insecticides.
3. Eggs and Their Uses as Food.
.. Tests for Detection of Oleomargarine. ¿ Tree Planting in Rural School Grounds. '. The Angora Goat.
1. Irrigation in Field and Garden.
1. Emmer: a Grain for the Semi-arid Re- gions.
1. Pineapple Growing.
. Clearing New Land.
. Scabies in Cattle.
. The Home Fruit Garden
. The Home Vineyard.
. The Propagation of Plants.
How to Build Irrigation Ditches. .
, Rape as a Forage Crop
Cheese Making on the Farm. . Cassava.
Principles of Horse Feeding.
. Scale Insects and Mites on Citrus Trees.
. Primer of Forestry.
Broom Corn.
. Home Manufacture of Grape Juice.
. Cranberry Culture.
. Squab Raising.
. Insects Injurious in Cranberry Culture. Horseshoeing.
. Pruning.
Poultry as Food.
Meat on the Farm. -
Beautifying the Home Grounds. -
Drainage of Farm Lands. Weeds Used in Medicine.
Barnyard Manure.
Alfalfa Seed.
Annual Flowering Plants.
198. Strawberries.
200. Turkeys.
201. The
Cream
Separator
on
Western
Farms.
203. Canned Fruits, Preserves and Jellies. 204. The Cultivation of Mushrooms.
205. Pig Management.
206. Milk Fever and Its Treatment.
213. Raspberries
218. The School Garden.
220. Tomatoes.
221. Fungous Diseases of the Cranberry.
224. Canadian Field Peas.
228. Forest Planting and Farm Manage- ment.
229. Production of Good Seed Corn.
231. Cucumber and Melon Diseases.
232. Okra: Its Culture and Uses. 234. The Guinea Fowl.
236. Incubation and Incubators.
238. Citrus Fruit Growing in States.
the Gulf
239. The Corrosion of Fence Wire.
241. Butter Making on the Farm.
242. An Example of Model Farming.
243. Fungicides and Their Use.
245. Renovation of Worn-out Soils.
246. Saccharine Sorghums.
248. The Lawn.
249. Cereal Breakfast Foods.
250. Wheat Smut and Loose Smut of Oats. 252. Maple Sugar and Syrup.
253. The Germination of Seed Corn.
254. Cucumbers.
255. The Home Vegetable Garden.
256. Preparation of Vegetables for the Table.
257. Soil Fertility.
260. Seed of Red Clover and Its Impurities. 263. Information for Beginners in Irrigation. 264. The Brown-Tail Moth.
266. Management of Soils to Conserve Mois- ture.
269. Industrial Alcohol: Uses and Statistics. 270. Modern Conveniences for the Farm Home.
271. Forage Crop Practices in the North- west.
272. A Successful Hog and Seed-Corn Farm. 274. Flax Culture.
275. The Gypsy Moth.
277. Alcohol and Gasoline in Farm Engines. 278. Leguminous Crops for Green Manuring. 279. A Method of Eradicating Johnson Grass. 280. A Profitable Tenant Dairy Farm. 282. Celery.
284. Enemies of the Grape East of the Rockies.
286. Cotton Seed and Cotton-Seed Meal.
287. Poultry Management.
288. Non-saccharine Sorghums.
289. Beans.
291. Evaporation of Apples.
292. Cost of Filling Silos.
293. Use of Fruit as Food.
295. Potatoes and Other Root Crops as Food. 298. Food Value of Corn and Corn Prod- ucts.
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299. Diversified Farming. 301. Home-Grown Tea. 302. Sea Island Cotton.
303. Corn Harvesting Machinery.
304. Growing and Curing Hops.
306. Dodder in Relation to Farm Seeds. 307. Roselle: Its Culture and Uses.
310. A Successful Alabama Diversification Farm.
311. Sand-Clay and Burnt-Clay Roads.
312. A Successful Southern Hay Farm.
313. Harvesting and Storing Corn. 318. Cowpeas.
321. The Use of the Split-Log Drag on
322. Milo as a Dry-Land Grain Crop. 324. Sweet Potatoes.
325. Small Farms in the Corn Belt.
326. Building up a Cotton Plantation.
328. Silver Fox Farming.
330. Deer Farming in the United States.
331. Forage Crops for Hogs in Kansas
332. Nuts and Their Uses as Food.
333. Cotton Wilt.
337. New England Dairy Farms.
338. Macadam Roads.
339. Alfalfa.
341. The Basket Willow.
344. The Boll Weevil Problem.
345. Some Common Disinfectants.
346. The Computation of Rations. 347. The Repair of Farm Equipment.
348. Bacteria in Milk.
349. The Dairy Industry in the South.
350. The Dehorning of Cattle.
351. The Tuberculin Test of Cattle. 354. Onion Culture.
355. A Successful Poultry and Dairy Farm.
357. Methods of Poultry Management.
358. Primer of Forestry. Part II.
359. Canning Vegetables in the Home.
361. Meadow Fescue: Its Culture and Uses. 362. Conditions Affecting the Value of Hay.
363. The Use of Milk as Food.
364. A Profitable Cotton Farm.
365. Northern Potato-Growing Sections.
367. Lightning and Lightning Conductors. 368. Bindweed, or Wild Morning-glory.
369. How to Destroy Rats.
370. Replanning a Farm for Profit.
371. Drainage of Irrigated Lands.
372. Soy Beans.
373. Irrigation of Alfalfa.
375. Care of Food in the Home.
377. Harmfulness of Headache Mixtures.
378. Methods of Exterminating Texas-fever Tick. 379. Hog Cholera. 380. The Loco-weed Disease. 382. The Adulteration of Forage-plant Seeds.
383. How to Destroy English Sparrows.
385. Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Clubs.
386. Potato Culture on Farms of the West. 387. Preservative Treatment of Timbers. 389. Bread and Bread Making.
390. Pheasant Raising in the United States. 391. Economical Use of Meat in the Home. 392. Irrigation of Sugar Beets. 393. Habit-forming Agents.
394. Windmills in Irrigation.
395. Sixty-day and Kherson Oats. 396. The Muskrat.
398. Use of Commercial Fertilizers in the South.
399. Irrigation of Grain.
400. Profitable Corn-planting Method.
401. Protection of Orchards from Frosts. 402. Canada Bluegrass; Its Culture and Uses.
403. Construction of Concrete Fence Posts.
404. Irrigation of Orchards. 406. Soil Conservation.
407. The Potato as a Truck Crop.
408. School Exercises in Plant Producti( 409. School Lessons on Corn.
410. Potato Culls as a Source of Alcohol. 411. Feeding Hogs in the South.
413. The Care of Milk and Its Use. 414. Corn Cultivation.
415. Seed Corn.
417. Rice Culture.
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420. Oats: Distribution and Uses. 421. Control of Blowing Soils.
Farms.
423. Forest Nurseries for Schools.
424. Oats: Growing the Crop.
426. Canning Peaches on the Farm.
427. Barley Culture in the Southern Stale 428. Testing Farm Seeds.
429. Industrial Alcohol: Manufacture. 431. The Peanut.
432. How a City Family Managed a Farı 433. Cabbage.
434. Production of Onion Seed and Sets. 436. Winter Oats for the South.
437. A System of Tenant Farming. 438. Hog Houses.
439. Anthrax.
440. Spraying Peaches.
441. Lespedeza, or Japan Clover.
442. The Treatment of Bee Diseases. 443. Barley: Growing the Crop.
444. Remedies Against Mosquitoes.
445. Marketing Eggs Through the Cream 446. The Choice of Crops for Alkali Lan. 447. Bees.
448. Better Grain-Sorghum Crops.
449. Rabies or Hydrophobia.
450. Some Facts About Malaria.
452. Capons and Caponizing.
453. Danger of Spread of Gypsy and Bro Tail Moths.
454. A Successful New York Farm. 455. Red Clover.
456. Our Grosbeaks and Their Value. 458. The Best Two Sweet Sorghums. 459. House Flies.
460. Frames as a Factor in Truck Grow 461. The Use of Concrete on the Farm.
462. The Utilization of Logged-Off Lan
463. The Sanitary Privy.
464. The Eradication of Quack-Grass. 466. Winter Emmer. FOR
467. Chestnut Bark Disease.
468. Forestry in Nature Study.
470. Game Laws.
471. Grape Propagation, Pruning, Train
472. Farming in Central New Jersey.
475. Ice Houses.
P. kde 474. Paint on the Farm.
476. Dying Pine in Southern States. 477. Sorghum Sirup Manufacture.
478. Typhoid Fever.
480. Disinfecting Stables.
481. Concrete on the Live-Stock Farm.
482. How to Grow Pears.
483. Thornless Prickly Pears.
484. Spotted Fever.
485. Sweet Clover.
487. Cheese in the Diet.
488. Diseases of Cabbage, etc.
489. Two Imported Plant Diseases.
490. Bacteria in Milk.
492. Fungous Enemies of the Apple.
493. English Sparrow Pest.
494. Lawn Soils and Lawns.
495. Alfalfa Seed Production.
496. Raising Hares and Rabbits.
498. Texas-fever Tick.
500. Control of the Boll Weevil.
501. Cotton Improvement.
502. Timothy in the Northwest. 503. Comb Honey.
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SPRAYING FORMULAS
FUNGICIDES .- Bordeaux mixture is ide by taking three pounds of sulphate copper, four pounds of quicklime, ty gallons of water. To dissolve the oper sulphate, put it into a coarse th bag and suspend the bag in a re- tacle partly filled with water. Next, ke the lime in a tub, and strain the Ik of lime thus obtained into another :eptacle. Now get some one to help 1, and with buckets, simultaneously ir the two liquids into the spraying 'rel or tank. Lastly, add sufficient ter to make fifty gallons. It is safe use this full-strength Bordeaux on lost all foliage-except, perhaps, on ra tender things, such as watermelon es, peach trees, etc. For these it wiser to use a half-strength mixture. FORMALIN .- This is also called for- Idehyde, and may be purchased at :g stores. Its principal use is to at seed potatoes to prevent "scab." ik the whole seed for two hours in mixture of one-half pint formalin [ fifteen gallons of cold water; dry seed, cut, and plant in ground that not recently grown potatoes.
BORDEAUX COMBINED WITH INSECT SON .- By adding one-quarter pound Paris green to each fifty gallons of 'deaux, the mixture becomes a com- ed fungicide and insecticide. Or, ead of Paris green, add about two nds of arsenate of lead. The advan- es of arsenate of lead over Paris en are, first, it is not apt to burn age even if used in rather excessive ntities; and, second, it "sticks" to foliage, etc., better and longer.
SECTICIDES .- ARSENATE OF D .- This is the best insecticide for wing insects, and is for sale by seeds-
Use about two pounds in fifty ons of water.
HITE HELLEBORE .- This, if fresh,
may be used instead of Paris green in some cases-worms on currant and gooseberry bushes, for instance. (It is not such a powerful poison as the ar- senites, and would not do so well for tough insects such as potato-bugs.) Steep two ounces in one gallon of hot water, and use as a spray.
FOR SUCKING INSECTS .- Now we come to another class of insecticides, suited to insects which suck a plant's juice but do not chew. Arsenic will not kill such pests; therefore we must resort to solutions which kill by contact.
KEROSENE EMULSION .- One-half pound of hard or one quart of soft soap; kero- sene, two gallons; boiling soft water, one gallon. If hard soap is used, slice it fine and dissolve it in water by boiling ; add the boiling solution (away from the fire) to the kerosene, and stir or violently churn for from five to eight minutes, until the mixture assumes a creamy consistency. If a spray pump is at hand, pump the mixture back upon itself with considerable force for about five minutes. Keep this as a stock. It must be further diluted with water be- fore using. One part of emulsion to fifteen parts of water, is about right for lice.
CARBOLIC ACID EMULSION .- Made by dissolving one pound of hard soap or one quart of soft soap in a gallon of boiling water, to which one pint of crude carbolic acid is added, the whole being stirred into an emulsion. One part of this is added to about thirty-five parts of water and poured around the bases of the plants, about four ounces per plant at each application, beginning when the plants are set out and re- peated every week or ten days until the last of May. Used to fight maggots.
WHALE-OIL SOAP SOLUTION .- Dissolve one pound of whale-oil soap in a gallon
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of hot water, and dilute with about six gallons of cold water. This is a good application for aphis (lice) on trees or plants. For oyster-shell or scurvy scale use this spray in May or June or when the tiny scale lice are moving about on the bark.
TOBACCO TEA .- Place five pounds of tobacco stems in a water-tight vessel, and cover them with three gallons of hot water. Allow to stand several hours ; dilute the liquor by adding about seven gallons of water. Strain and ap- ply. Good for lice.
LIME-SULPHUR MIXTURE. - Slake twenty-two pounds of fresh lump lime in the vessel in which the mixture is to be boiled, using only enough water to cover the lime. Add seventeen pounds of sulphur (flowers or powdered), hav- ing previously mixed it in a paste with water. Then boil the mixture for about an hour in about ten gallons of water, using an iron but not a copper vessel. Next add enough more water to make, in all, fifty gallons. Strain through wire sieve or netting, and apply while mixture is still warm. A good, high- pressure pump is essential to satisfac- tory work. Coat every particle of the tree. This is the standard San Jose scale remedy, although some orchardists prefer to use the soluble oil sprays now on the market.
PYRETHRUM, OR PERSIAN INSECT POW- DER .- It may be dusted on with a pow- der bellows when the plants are wet ; or one ounce of it may be steeped in one gallon of hot water, and sprayed on the plants at any time. It is often used on flowers, in greenhouses, on vegeta- bles, etc.
BISULPHIDE OF CARBON .- This is used to kill weevils in beans and peas, etc. It comes in liquid form and may be had of druggists. When exposed to the air it quickly vaporizes into a poisonous and explosive gas which is heavier than air and which will destroy all insect life. (Caution .- Do not inhale the vapor, and allow no lights near.)
Tobacco stems, tobacco dust, kai soot, freshly-slaked lime, dust, etc., often used as insect preventives-in soil around plants to keep away gr worms and maggots, or dusted on discourage the visits of cucumber bu APP etc. (Note .- The first four are ex( Prilla Julio noth lent fertilizers as well as insect p ventives.)
Crows and blackbirds frequently I up planted corn. The best prevent is to tar the seed, as follows: Put seed into a pail and pour on enou
EA (A warm water to cover it. Add a t reev spoonful of coal-tar to a peck, and well. Throw the seed out on a si
AB or in a basket to drain, and then in a few handfuls of land plaster (g sum), or air-slaked lime.
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A NEW FUNGICIDE .- Some orcha ists are now using the following se boiled lime-sulphur spray, instead
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lack to spot or burn fruit and foliage: ] eight pounds of unslaked lump lime a barrel; add enough water to cov When the lime begins to heat, throw eight pounds of flowers of sulph Constantly stir and gradually pour
more water until the lime is all slak then add the rest of the water to c the mixture. About fifty gallons water, in all, are required. Stra
EL UCI ugs Two pounds of arsenate of lead n be added, if desired, to the finish EA (R mixture, which then becomes a co hrci bined fungicide and insecticide, a EA (L dli may be used in the same manner advised for Bordeaux-arsenate of le (Special note .- The self-boiled mixti
I is not the same as the lime-sulph advised for San Jose scale, which too strong for trees in foliage.)
If you do not care to bother w making spraying mixtures at home, tl (R can be purchased, already prepared, seedsmen. For only a few trees plants, the extra cost of these facto mixtures is not great.
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SPRAYING CALENDAR
PLANT
APPLE
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(Scab, rot, rust, codling moth, bud moth, tent cater- pillar, canker worm, cur-
culio, etc.)
ASPARAGUS (Rust, beetles.)
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BEAN (Anthracnose, leaf blight, te weevil, etc.)
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CABBAGE (Worms, lice, maggots, etc.)
CELERY (Blight, rot, leaf spot,
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(Rot, aphis, slug, curculio, ›lack knot, leaf blight, or pot, etc.) P me
CURRANT GOOSEBERRY (Worms, leaf blight.)
RAPE
(Fungous diseases, Rose ugs, lice, flea, beetle, leaf opper, etc.) la kr
TELONS UCUMBERS (Mildew, rot, blight, striped ugs, lice, flea beetle, etc.)
EACH (Rot, mildew, leaf curl, irculio, etc.)
EAR AND QUINCE . .. (Leaf blight, scab, psylla, dling moth, blister mite, "gs, etc.)
LUM (Curculio, black knot, leaf ight, brown rot, etc.)
)TATO (Flea beetle, Colorado etle, blight rot, etc.)
)MATO
(Rot, blight, etc.)
FIRST APPLICATION
SECOND APPLICATION
If canker worms are abun- dant just before blossoms open, Bordeaux-arsenical mixture.
After cutting ceases, let the shoots grow and spray them with Bordeaux-arseni- cal mixture.
10 days later, Bordeaux.
7-10 days later, repeat.
Bordeaux, after plants are transplanted to field. (Pyre- thrum for caterpillars if necessary.)
When blossoms drop, Bor- deaux-arsenical mixture.
10 days later, hellebore. Bordeaux if leaf blight is feared.
Just before flowers unfold, Bordeaux-arsenical mixture.
Bordeaux, when vines be- gin to run.
As the buds swell, Bor- deaux.
When fruit has set, repeat. Jar trees for curculio.
Just before blossoms open, Bordeaux. Kerosene emul- sion when leaves open for psylla, if needed.
When blossoms have fallen, Bordeaux-arsenical mixture. Begin to jar trees for cur- culio.
Repeat before insects be- come numerous.
and Bordeaux when about
4 in. high.
When plants are 6 in.
high, Bordeaux.
Repeat in 10-14 davs. (Fruit can be wiped if dis- figured by Bordeaux.)
NOTE .- For San Jose scale on trees and shrubs, spray with the lime-sulphur mixture in tumn after leaves fall, or (preferably) in early spring, before buds start. The lime-sulphur
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When buds are swelling, but before they open, Bor- deaux.
Cut off all shoots below surface regularly until about July 1st.
Treat the seed before
planting with bisulphide of carbon. (See remarks.) When third leaf expands, Bordeaux.
Pyrethrum or insect pow- der.
Half strength Bordeaux on young plants in hotbed or seedbed.
As buds are breaking, Bordeaux; when aphis ap- pear, tobacco solution or kerosene emulsion.
At first appearance of
worms, hellebore.
In spring, when buds swell, Bordeaux.
10-14 days repeat. (Note: Always use half strength Bordeaux on watermelon vines. )
As buds are swelling, Bordeaux.
When buds are swelling, Bordeaux.
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THIRD APPLICATION.
FOURTH APPLICATION.
REMARKS.
When blossoms have fallen. Bor-
deaux-arsenical ture.
mix-
8-12 days later, Bordeaux · arsenical mixture.
For aphis (lice) use one of the lice remedi burc mentioned elsewhere. Dig out borers fro tut tree trunks with knife and wire. For oyste shell scale, use whale-oil soap spray in June.
2-3 weeks later, Bor- deaux-arsenical mix- ture.
Repeat in 2-3
weeks.
Mow vines close to ground when they a killed by frost, burn them, and apply a mul of stable manure.
14 days later, Bor- deaux.
14 days later, Bor- deaux.
For weevils: Put seed in tight box, put cloth over seed, pour bisulphide of carbon cung it, put lid on and keep closed for 48 hourttle Use 1 oz. to 4 bus. of seed.
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7-10 days later, re- peat.
Repeat every 10-14 days until crop
Root maggots: Pour carbolic acid emulsichout around stem of plants. Club root: Rotabre tres crops; apply lime to soil; burn refuse; tre
gathered.
seed with formalin before planting. Lavin Jake
14 days later, re- peat.
14 days later, re- peat.
Rot or rust is often caused by hilling bntr with earth in hot weather. Use boards fi summer cro. Pithy stalks are due to por
We seed; or lack of moisture.
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10-14 deaux.
days, Bor-
Hellebore, if a second brood of slugs appear.
2 to 4 weeks later, repeat.
Cane-borers may be kept in check by cuttirfre. out and burning infested canes.
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When fruit has set, Bordeaux · arsenical mixture.
2 to 4 weeks later, Bordeaux.
For lice, use any of the lice remedies. F.bomba rose bugs, use 10 pounds of arsenate of leancia and one gallon of molasses in 50 gallons he r
water, as a spray. Or knock the bugs in pans of kerosene every day. kely
10-14 days, repeat.
10-14 days, repeat.
Use lice remedies for lice. For striped bugerum protect young plants with a cover of mosqui netting over each hill. Or keep vines wesed dusted with a mixture of air-slaked lime, tiver bacco dust and a little Paris green. eası
When fruit is one- half grown, Bor- deaux.
NOTE :- It is safer always to use half- strength Bordeaux on peach foliage.
affected with "yellows."
After blossoms have fallen. Bordeaux-ar- senical mixture.
8-12 days later, re- peat.
burn blighted branches whenever seen.
10-14
10-20 days later, Bordeaux.
Repeat.
To prevent scabby tubers, treat the seed wi formalin before planting.
Repeat days.
in 10-14
Dig out borers. Cut down and burn tre ick Pag mea Look out for "fire blight." Cut out ff it i arterag in Ited wer d pay n Cut out black knot whenever seen. efore nd th Fhen do not ttack ke a Hand-pick tomato worms. que s loss
mixture is a fungicide as well as a scale cure, and if it is used the first early Bordeatarsh spray may be omitted.
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Repeat for blight, rot and insects.
Black knot : Dark fungous-looking bunch or knots on limbs. Cut off and burn whenev and seen. A s te
10-14 days, repeat, if necessary.
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Hog Ailments and How to Treat Them (From the Biggle Swine Book)
More has been spoken and written on ie subject of hog cholera than upon ly other one subject connected with ogs. It has ever been a fruitful ource for discussion at farmers' in- itutes and an endless theme on which write. The Government has appro- "iated large sums of money and has nployed learned men who have la- red with seeming diligence for years, id yet after all these years of waiting id all this expenditure of money we 'e forced to admit, whether humili- ing or not, that we know but very ttle that is of practical benefit about :e whole matter.
But two things are absolutely known out the disease. One is that it sweeps restrained over vast areas of country, aving death and destruction in its ake; and the other is that hogs which ontract the disease usually die.
We shall not attempt to deal with is subject in a scientific way, but shall eal with it rather from a practical andpoint.
A somewhat recent means of preventing e disease is the serum or antitoxin tre. It consists in introducing into the 'stem of the animal a serum which lables the body to more successfully mbat the disease. The Government ficials seem to be highly pleased with e results so far and seem to believe at relief from the dread disease is cely to come through this means. The rum produced last year, wherever ed in cholera-infected herds, saved er eighty per cent. of the animals. It easily applied, and its good effects in ck hogs are seen almost immediately.
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Page after page has been written as means of telling hog cholera, but much it is difficult of comprehension to the erage reader. If you have never had in your herd you are to be congratu- ted on your good fortune; and if you er do, when you are done with it you ay not have as many hogs as you did fore, but rest assured of one thing, d that is you will know hog cholera hen you see it again. As a rule hogs , not look well for weeks before an tack. At other times it will come .e a bolt of lightning from a clear ue sky. The first thing noticeable is loss of appetite; the hair will look rsh and dry ; sometimes a slight cough .11 be noticeable, at other times not.
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