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July 17, 1902
The Monmouth Inquirer
Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey
What is this article about?
Assorted agricultural advice from Farmers' Voice on cultivating raspberries, fruit trees, fertilization, and pest control methods for cabbage worms using dust and parasites.
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Three good canes to a hill in raspberry patches is better than a dozen small ones.
The fewer leaves on a tree or vine the more perfect the fruit, and the better it will color.
The manure from the hog pens and yards is the best kind for the garden. It should be saved for this use.
Keep suckers pinched off the stock on which improved fruit is grafted. They only sap the stock without doing any good.
Potash is a good fertilizer for peach trees. In a peach country a handful of muriate of potash to each tree is used.
An ordinary drain tile slipped over each celery plant blanches it perfectly and saves much handling.
Do not let fruit trees form too thick a head. Such a growth results in inferior fruit and small crops.
There is but little danger of over-fertilizing an orchard. Trees can use a great deal of plant food.
Keep the runners off the strawberries, except enough to form plants for next year's crop.
Where fruit trees surround the home it is made pleasanter and the family has better health.
Fruit trees and bushes must have plenty of room to bring perfect crops.
Farmers' Voice.
Destroying Cabbage Worm.
It is not difficult to kill the disgusting cabbage worms which this season will soon destroy a crop unless removed. They are the product of the white butterfly, which in hot, dry weather is seen busily laying her eggs, flitting from head to head, and is then very hard to catch. In the early morning, while the air is cool and the butterfly is inactive, is the only time it can be caught very easily. But then most of them are hidden out of sight.
If the cabbages are kept dusted with fine wheat middlings, the dust will clog the breathing apparatus of the worms, which will begin to wriggle as soon as it touches them. All their struggles only fill their breathing holes more quickly, and the worm soon tumbles off on the ground and perishes. It is worth while, also, to secure some infested cabbage worms. These have an egg laid in them by a parasite. Soon as the egg hatches, a little insect begins to eat out the inside of the worm, which it never leaves until it hatches out a perfect fly ready to continue the work of destroying the cabbage worm by laying one egg in each, to be hatched out as itself has been. American Cultivator.
Three good canes to a hill in raspberry patches is better than a dozen small ones.
The fewer leaves on a tree or vine the more perfect the fruit, and the better it will color.
The manure from the hog pens and yards is the best kind for the garden. It should be saved for this use.
Keep suckers pinched off the stock on which improved fruit is grafted. They only sap the stock without doing any good.
Potash is a good fertilizer for peach trees. In a peach country a handful of muriate of potash to each tree is used.
An ordinary drain tile slipped over each celery plant blanches it perfectly and saves much handling.
Do not let fruit trees form too thick a head. Such a growth results in inferior fruit and small crops.
There is but little danger of over-fertilizing an orchard. Trees can use a great deal of plant food.
Keep the runners off the strawberries, except enough to form plants for next year's crop.
Where fruit trees surround the home it is made pleasanter and the family has better health.
Fruit trees and bushes must have plenty of room to bring perfect crops.
Farmers' Voice.
Destroying Cabbage Worm.
It is not difficult to kill the disgusting cabbage worms which this season will soon destroy a crop unless removed. They are the product of the white butterfly, which in hot, dry weather is seen busily laying her eggs, flitting from head to head, and is then very hard to catch. In the early morning, while the air is cool and the butterfly is inactive, is the only time it can be caught very easily. But then most of them are hidden out of sight.
If the cabbages are kept dusted with fine wheat middlings, the dust will clog the breathing apparatus of the worms, which will begin to wriggle as soon as it touches them. All their struggles only fill their breathing holes more quickly, and the worm soon tumbles off on the ground and perishes. It is worth while, also, to secure some infested cabbage worms. These have an egg laid in them by a parasite. Soon as the egg hatches, a little insect begins to eat out the inside of the worm, which it never leaves until it hatches out a perfect fly ready to continue the work of destroying the cabbage worm by laying one egg in each, to be hatched out as itself has been. American Cultivator.
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Agriculture
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Farming Tips
Raspberry Cultivation
Tree Care
Fertilizer
Cabbage Worms
Pest Control
Orchard Management
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Collection of farming tips on raspberry patches, tree and vine leaf management, hog manure use, sucker removal on grafted fruit, potash for peach trees, celery blanching with drain tiles, fruit tree head formation, orchard fertilization, strawberry runner management, benefits of fruit trees around homes, and spacing for fruit crops. Additional advice on destroying cabbage worms using wheat middlings dust and natural parasites from American Cultivator.