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ly up to the breach will molasses and water, slight-.
ly acidutated with vinegar,cork it and hang it to a
convenient central branch in tho tree. Ono or
two to each tree will ensure good fruit. Corking
the month of the bottle prevents escape.
v BALEIGH; IT. C., JUITE, 1857.
REMEDY FOR THE CHINCH BUG.
Wo copy the subjoined paragraph from the
Standard, showing that the proper application of
fish oil tvill arrest ttedepredation of Chinch Bugs.
It conveys important information at this particular
time , when they are, in places, getting into the
corn, 1 We have no douhtTohaoco juice would al
so ho an effectual remedy, and it would be cheapen
and easierjapplicd. ' Boil it until you have a strong
decoction ; then, wit2i . watering pot, a hand
could put it on almost as fast fis be could walk
through the field. If found efficacious, every
farmer could raise a small lot of tobacco at but
little cost, which he might save and keep on hand
ro readiness to. meet the : enemy At all times snd
repel his invasions. ' ; ; : ;
?fW e published ' recently a note from the Hon
Abram Rencher, stating that fish oil had been
found an -excellent remedy for the chinch bug now
destroying, tho corn. Mr. Rencher has addressed
us another note on the .subject, in which he says
he has found tho remedy entirely successful, but
thatsocas bis; neighbors complain that it kills
their corn. So it does his corn jsays Mr. R. if
applied in too large a quantity. He says, "take
a feather from the wing of a chicken or goose,
clipoff a small piece of the little end, dip the feath
ry pari in oil, and run it down between the boot
and the stalk ot the two lower blades, wipe off the
oil remaining on the feather on the out side of the
ialk near the ground. The oil kills the bugs it
touches, and the ballance disappear." Mr. Rench
er adds : "I have j ust returned from my cornfield,
which bordered m my wheat field for two hundred
yards, v and where the chinchf bug appeared in
great force. Their ravages were arrested by the
' application of the oil, and the corn looks as well
at this time as if there never had been a bug upon
xiowever unsucccssiui oiners may . do in ine
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application of fish oil, I consider myself indebted
to it for the safety of my corofekL I wrjte this
from fear that some persons may be discouraged
toy an improper application of the oil."
COTTON BLOOMS. .
L A. Dumas, Esq., of Dumas's Store, Richmond
County, has sent to tho Observer some cotton
blooms, the first he had setn this season, gathered
on the 29th of June. He adds, that "corn and
cotton arc unusually small and unpromising in tho .
neighborhood. I do not think I can make over
half a crop of cotton, under the most favorable
circumstances. We are harvesting our wheat, tho
crop being very good. Oats not good."
ARTICHOKES.
The Tribune vry properly contends that tho
great value of artichokes has never been under,
stood generally by American farmers. They will
produce thousand bushels per acre with little or
no cultivaton, upon a moist rich soil, and the roots
will keep uudug through the winter, or they may
be plowed out and wed in the fall, and hogs turned
in upon tho ground in 'the spring to root, up tho
small roots, and this, gives tho land an excellent'
preparation for auy other crop. The same root
has been long grown in i all the New England
States in little patches, for tho amusement of tho
pigs and the pleasure of the boys, who are fond of
digging and eating it raw in early spring.
Sometimes they are used for pickles, but seldom
cooked in the Northern States, while &t the South
they taake a eommon dish upon many tables.
IMPORTANT FACT.
The Atlanta Intelligencer, says, that in conver
sing witl Dr. Alexander, of that city n few days
ago, the Doctor stated that during the late small
pox panic, :Jio had vaccinated over; two hundred
small children, and that he has found vaccination
a certain and speedy cure for the whooping cough.
This observation, if it is founded on a principle or
fact, deserves the attention of medical men. ; .
XfWhen climbing ro3qs . fail, to nin, which is
often the case, the remedy is to cut nway all but
three or four of the strongest shoots arid per-
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HOW TO CATCH CURCULIOS. ,
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Urcaka hole in the side ot a bottle, fill it near
mit none but these to grow the first season Give
the plant plenty of manure liquid manure ma
nure of almost any kind or description. By this
means you an cause vour climbing roses to grow
to almost any extentdesired. , 'v
Pile weeds on the compost heap.