Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1875 — Wire and Cut-Worms. [ARTICLE]

Wire and Cut-Worms.

A correspondent of the/ Lire Stock Journal gives the follow ing preventive ot the ravages of these insects in cornfields: Soak the seed in copperas Water twenty-four hours before planting, keeping the watir a little warm, say . seventy degs, Fahr. One pound of copperas in three gallons of water to one bushel of “Seed. He tested it last year, and not a hill was touched. The copperas turns the seed black, but does not injure the germinatiye properties. Another prevent ive is the follow ing: Soak your seed one night in a tub of equal proportions of lye made from ashes and common urine, with a fair portion of blue stone dissolved therein. Pour oil' the liquid through a basket into a tub, to preserve for use again. Then, w hile the corn is wet, take a first-class article of plaster, and mix and stir till each and every grain is thickly and thoroughly coated with the plaster, so as to cover the entire surface of the grains. Then plant as usual, being careful not to break or rub off the coating. It is said to be, by those who have tested it, a complete preventive against those annoyers to all farmers.