Bellefonte, Pa., June 24, 1921.
FARM NOTES.
— Geese have an important part in
the endless war on waste. They are
in a class with chickens in utilizing
waste grain about stables and feed-
ing pens. In a larger measure than
chickens or any other kind of poultry
they are a grazing stock, getting their
living in large part from the ordinary
grasses of the pastures. When it is
considered that the demand for geese
is extended over almost the whole
year, that geese excel all other poultry
as producers of fat, the importance of
geese in the poultry scheme is realiz-
ed as important.
—To destroy the grape rootworm,
cultivate the vineyard during early
June, the United States Department
of Agriculture advises, Spray the
vines as soon as adult beetles appear,
with arsenate of lead, 1% pounds pow-
der or 3 pounds paste to 50 gallons of
water or 50 gallons of Bordeaux mix-
ture if fungus diseases are present.
To destroy the grape leafhopper,
spray in late June or early July, when
the nymphs of young insects are most
abundant. Use 40 per cent. nicotine
sulphate, one-fourth pint to 50 gal-
lons soapy water (2 pounds soap), or
with 50 gallons Bordeaux mixture to
control fungous diseases. Hit the low-
er sides of the leaves forcibly.
—Any leather article is almost cer-
tain to mildew if kept ina warm,
damp, and dark place, such as a clos-
et, cellar, or stable. This mildewing
probably will not reduce seriously the
serviceability of the article, unless it
is allowed to remain on the leather too
long. It may, however, change the
color appreciably,
appearance. The simplest way to pre-
vent mildewing, say specialists of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture, is to keep the leather in a
well-ventilated, dry, well-lighted place,
preferably one exposed to the sun-
light. Mildew can not make much
headway in the sunshine. When mil-
dew develops, it should be washed off
with soap and warm water, or simply
wiped off with a moist cloth, drying
the leather well afterwards. These
simple measures are preferable to the
application in the home of prepara-
tions designed to prevent the growth
of mildew.
— Farmers in some parts of eastern
Pennsylvania, notably in Chester
county, have been saving barnyard
manure in walled enclosures adjacent
to the stables, often paved with flag-
stones, for more than a century. The
value of this efficiency has been shown
in an investigation embracing the
standards of management on ten
farms selected by specialists of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture in the region mentioned, and - the
results are embodied in Farmers’
Bulletin 987, which may be had free
upon application to the Division of
Publications.
The bulletin shows that the average
yield of corn for the State is 42.5
bushels an acre, while in the ten se-
lected farms it is 85.50 bushels;
average wheat
18 bushels and for the ten farms 29.-
75; hay average for the State is 1.43
tons an acre and for the ten farms
2.65 tons; while the three farms that
grew oats produced an average of 45
bushels an acre as compared with the
State average of 33.10 bushels.
A survey of 378 farms in Chester
county on which exceptionally high
standards of management are main-
tained, including close attention to
handling of barnyard manure, showed
an average corn yield of 65.3 bushels;
wheat 24.8; and oats 41.6. The com-
paratively high yields in Chester
county, the specialists say, can not be
credited entirely to the way in which
manure is handled, because the soil in
that county is much better than the
State’s average soil, but special atten-
tion to manure and its conservation
has been an outstanding feature of
that county’s farming.
— The bacterial wilt of cucurbits is
becoming a very serious disease in cu-
cumbers and cantaloupes, although the
latter are a little more resistant to it
than the former. Squash vines are
not subject to it to any great extent
and watermelons are practically im-
mune. Much work has been done to
discover possible methods of preven-
tion or control. It has been definitely
learned that the disease does not win-
ter over in the soil nor is it carried by
the seed. It has been charged that in-
sects carry it, and only after long and
careful tests has it been learned that
the striped cucumber beetle and the
12-spotted cucumber beetle are sum-
mer carriers of the disease and prob-
ably the disease is carried over from
one season to another by them, al-
though this has not been: definitely
proven. It has also been definitely
proven that the following insects do
not carry the disease—squash bug,
squash lady bird, melon aphis, potato
flea-beetle and honey bee.
The damage varies according to the
season. The conditions which will
cause the greatest damage are an
abundance of the beetles and succu-
lent, rapidly growing vines. Aside
from the above conditions other things
such as wet or dry weather, warm or
cold, do not seem to make much dif-
ference.
Control: First, pull and destroy by
burning all wilted vines as soon as the
disease appears. This cannot well be
done when the vines have run so much
that they interlock.
Second: Control the beetles. In
small gardens the hills of cucumbers
and melons should be covered with
netting as long as possible, after
which keep them covered with 4-4-50
Bordeaux mixture to every fifty gal-
lons of which two pounds of powdered
arsenate of lead has been added.
In commercial plantings put out a
trap crop of squashes a week before
planting the cucumbers. This will en-
able the grower to kill the beetles on
the trap crop by spraying with a
strong poison. As soon as the first
true leaf has developed make the first
application of Bordeaux mixture and
arsenate of lead given above and re-
peat it at weekly intervals until the
beetles disappear from the fields.
Where downy mildew occurs continue
thus injuring the!
the :
yield for the State is |
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i the spraying a little longer to insure
' no trouble from the disease.
| The Bureau of Plant Industry,
| Pennsylvania Department of Agricul-
| ture, Harrisburg, will be pleased to
| answer questions regarding insect
pests and plant diseases.
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men on the Star had a small-sized
duck fit when they found it necessary
to address the great man.
It was “your lordship this” and
“your lordship that.”
The editor stood it as long as he
could. One day when one of the staff
entered his private office and began.
“If your lordship graciously pleases”—
the distressed man’s patience gave
way.
“Cut it out,” he shouted, pounding
his desk. “Cut out that lordship busi-
ness. In this office 'm Hugh Graham
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I may have to be a lord to the people
outside but in this office I want you
to understand, I'm still a plain editor.
Now, cut it out.” And they did.—The of
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