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Page 113 - Hogs are fond of this mixture; it increases their appetite, and when they once taste of food with which it has been mixed they will eat it though nothing else would tempt them. Animals that are very sick and that will not come to the feed should be drenched with the medicine shaken up with water.
Page 64 - Even flowers which appear to be injured may be so weakened that they can not set fruit. 5. Rain during the blooming season prevents the setting of fruit chiefly by destroying the vitality of the pollen, injuring the stigma, or by preventing fertilization because of the low temperature. The washing of pollen from the anthers seldom causes serious loss. 6. Much of the unsatisfactory fruiting of orchards all over the country is due to self-sterility. A tree is self-sterile if it can not set fruit unless...
Page 64 - ... but do not set a fair amount of fruit; many have found their orchards unprofitable for this reason. It is a practical point to know the causes of this loss and the best way to prevent it. Not all the flowers can set fruit. In the first place, but a small percentage of the blossoms set fruit anyway, even in the most favorable seasons and with the most productive varieties.
Page 113 - These ingredients should be completely pulverized and thoroughly mixed. The dose of this mixture is a large tablespoonful for each 200 pounds weight of hogs to be treated, and it should be given only once a day.
Page 69 - Cratasgus, or hawthorns, should be examined for this purpose, the blight being the same in all. The orchardist should not stop short of absolute destruction of every case, for a few overlooked may go a long way toward undoing all his work. Cutting out the blight may be done at any time in the winter or spring up to the period when growth begins. The best time, however, is undoubtedly in the fall, when the foliage is still on the trees and the contrast between that on the blighted and that on the...
Page 112 - P.; the animals appear stupid and dull, and have a tendency to hide in the litter or bedding and remain covered by it. The bowels may be normal or constipated at the beginning of the attack, but later there is generally a liquid and fetid diarrhoea, abundant, exhausting, and persisting to the end.
Page 33 - This is the plant of which Prof. Asa Gray said, " Possibly affording an opportunity for one to make millions of blades of grass grow where none of any account grew before." At the experiment stations of Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida it has given the heaviest yields of any of the forage crops grown, Georgia reporting 38,000 pounds of green forage per acre, Mississippi 44,000, and Louisiana the enormous amount of over 50 tons. It needs a long season of hot weather, a rich soil, and abundant...
Page 64 - Poorly nourished trees are more likely to be sterile with their own pollen than well-fed trees are. (12) The loss of fruit from self-sterility usually may be prevented by planting other varieties among the self-sterile trees. (13) The European and Oriental pears can fertilize each other, and many varieties of the domestica, Japanese, and native plums are likewise inter-fertile, provided they bloom together.
Page 55 - Final conclusions. — In our four years of warfare against the peach-tree borer we have been thoroughly convinced that it is a very difficult insect enemy to control. No method of fighting it has yet been devised by which the peach-grower can hope to get a single year's respite ; the trees must be treated anew each year and thus the warfare is a perpetual one. The following substances injured or killed our trees and are therefore classed as dangerous : Paris green and glue. Raupenleim. Dendrolene....
Page 70 - Of course, the greater part of the blight can be taken out the first time the trees are gone over. If this be in midsummer, the trees should all be again carefully inspected in the autumn, just before the leaves '•• shed, so as to get every case that can be seen at that time. After this a careful watch should be kept on the trees, and at least one more careful inspection given in spring before the blossoms open. It would doubtless be well to look the trees over several times during the winter...