FARM AND GARDEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4491, 1 August 1893, Page 2

FARM AND GARDEN.

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As this is the season for spraying fruit trees, and we have been asked by several owners of orchnrds to give particulars for spraying for woolly aphis and scale, we willingly do so. The: following recipe is,in our opinion, the best for winter use for scale and blight, but it would bo too strong for Bummor'use: Resin, slhs; oaustio soda (98 per ceritl-A; fish oil, |rd quart; water, jipFtyns. . Put the resiUj soda and-ffll into a boiler. Coyer with 4in to Gin of water, and boil briskly for an hour or more, .until the compound will blend perfectly with wator, It is then cooked enough. Add water slowly, stirring well until the compound amounts to eight gallons. It may then bo put away and used at any time by adding the remaining quantity of water. . This is the best known' remedy for American blight,— Exchange, Foot-rot iii Sheep, ' The following remedies are given in the Weekly Press: ~ fl. McDonald writes; In my experience of.a lifetime amongst sheep, &c„ 1 find that common tar with a little blue-stouo added made fairly thick, is as good as you can get, Then " re the simplest way to apply; it oan be done by putting in a trouehtoimple) in a race. But should Ifflfm be very bad the hoof will require paring. In many cases of sheep running on damp soil or long grass tho hoot will lap over, causing the soil to olbg betwoen, in which oaso it must be pared away and cleared to allow the remedy to take offeot. Then allow the sheep to keep their feet dry for a short timo in a dry pen, and remove if you oan to dry pasture for a few days. This is a certain cure if properly treated, Another correspondent writes; After stating that he had tried "every aoid which a chouiist's shop contains," he found nothing whioh answered so well as tho following:—viz, Boz bluestone, 1 gal wator made as hot as a shoep can stand comfortably in; place in a tub or trough capable of holding, say, about four sheep, and when the fourth one h placed in it, take out the first, By this method the whole of the feet get thoroughly saturated; then let them Btand on dry battens for a time before turning out. The sheep dressed must be looked to as often as once in three days,so that any bad case can be washed and redressed, and so the oure will be effected. The. previous treatment is to litter a small yard with wellwetted straw, let the sheep Btand in this till morning, when the hoof will be soft and clean. Every partiolo of diseased horn should be pared clean ,away without making the foot bleed too lmioh. '.'.' Mr Bowling adds that a great many owners pin their faith to arsenic, but his experience of arse&rtstbat " it only temporarily allays the oomplaint. Thebluestone remedy is simple and easily applied, and there is no danger from poisoning.