Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1919 — THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER [ARTICLE]

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

A department of farm welfare CONDUCTED BY COUNTY AGENT LEAMING. .

“Hog Cholera euroa” Exposed. In accordance with the law, the State Experiment Station has just completed testing 20 so called preventatives and cures for hog cholera. Many of thes are nationally advertised and widely sold. The test carried or by the Station has proved these to be worthless in controlling the disease. The great harm in their sales corner from the fact that many farmers who would in ordinary cases, depend on reliable and approved methods of protection, are given a false sense of security in regard to their herds, while using these “remedies” and their herds suffer serious loss. 'The importance of having herds of hogs exposed or infected with hog cholera promptly given the serum, simultaneous method, of vacmnation by trained veterinAnarians urging high grade serum cannot be too highly emphasized. If your hogs get sick, call your veterinarian at once and do not waste valuable time on so-called “cholera cures.” Carbolic and Emulsion for Radish Maggots. ,How to control the radish maggots or small worms which have been causing considerable damage to the radish crop in past years seems to •be a question which is puzzling amateur gardeners this season. The radish maggot is the larva of a small fly, which lays its eggs in the soil near the plants. Carbolic-Acid Emulsion is a good remedy for those pests, to protect against the fly depositing, its eggs. It is prepared by mixing half a pound of soap in a half gallon of water and one quart of crude carbolic acid or coal tar dip, and then is diluted with 25 parts of water. It should be applied a day or Two after the plants are up and should be repeated if necessary. . Carbolic acid acts as a repellent and is a contact and stomach poison. It should be handled with care. The same insect attacks the cabbage and may be handled in the same way. Green Sprouting of Potatoes. “Green sprouting will keep that sprouting late potato seed of your’s in good condition until planting time. It is an especially important practice this year since the warm winter and spring have started the tubers into growth early” says F, C. Gaylord, of the Purdue Horticulture Department. “To avoid long sprouts and withering of tubers, place them now in a well lighted room, bin or crib, where the temperature is above freezing. If the tubers already have long sprouts upon them, remove these first before putting out to green sprout. Sunlight is unnecessary and success is assure if the potatoes receive plenty of light ea.ch day. In a week or so after being placed in the light the young green sprouts will start to grow. After becoming about a quarter of an inch long, growth will cease. These short stubby sprouts will remain dormant until planting time. Such tubers will retain their viger, mature a crop earlier; be more resistant to disease attack and insure a more uniform stand.” This Is the Year to Spray. /With a reasonable assurance of a good fruit crop, it behooves every fruit tree owner to do what he can to make the quality first class. 'Knotty, wormy and diseased • fruit is neither appetizing or profitable. The time required to spray is small but the benefits are great. The tree owner who will take a little time to spray just as the petals are falling with 1 gallon of iime-sulpher solution and 1 pound of arsenate of lead in forty gallons of water can be assured of reasonably sound fruit. Aapples have been selling at the rate of $5 or more per bushel the past season. There is no reason why every farmer cannot have all the good fruit he wants if he. will take the trouble of spraying his trees. Inoculation Marterial Again Avialable The Department of Agriculture is again prepared to supply inoculating material for all the common legumes, such as alfalfa, navy beans, soy beans, alsike clover, red clover, sweet clover, cowpeas and garden peas, according to information received this week.

Campaign Now Opened Against the Cigaret.—Head-line. The next step will be a crusade against to-baoco.T-New York Evening Sun.