Cooley's Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades, Including Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy; Designed as a Comprehensive Supplement to the Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...lightest scarifiers in order to bring the lime into close contact with the larvse. After some days the land should be deeply ploughed to bury them and effectually prevent further transformation, at least to the imago form. Couch grass must be eradicated and hedge-sides and outsides of fields carefully brushed. It should be remarked here that brushing hedge-sides and all outsides, grassy roads, waste corners, and headlands should be done systematically--twice if possible, once early, before grasses seed and insects hatch out, and again in the autumn when insects are hibernating upon grassos and hedge-side and outside rubbish, cither as perfect insects or in the egg stage. And it is of not much use merely to brush; the rubbish Bhould be burnt or carried away to be mixened. As a proportion of the larvse in some seasons remain in the oars and are taken to the ricks and barns, it is most important that the chaff, after the corn is threshed and cleaned, which is not wanted for the horses, should be burnt or put in a mixen or under cattlo in yards. The ' cavings' and rubbish from barn-floors, rick-staddles, and where the threshing machine has stood should be similarly treated. 'Cavings' and chaff should not be suffered to lie about in rick-yards and corners of fields, or at least not after March. In Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, and other American States, after a bad attack of Cecidomyia, the farmers give up putting in winter wheat and sow spring wheat, which does not come into ear until after the flics have ceased to a great extent from troubling. But this would not answer in this country, as late sown spring wheat and wheat coming late into ear are not satisfactory, and spring wheat sown at the right time is not much later in flowering...