AGRICULTURAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 8, 28 September 1872, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL.

REMEDY FOR THE PEACH AND APPLE BLIO-HT. The peach blight has for some years been very nrt toto V ata]?eff er i a J Ca,1 ’° n * 9 I,ot ea ' i! ~ v or not to be at ail effected, except at considerable expense Iheinsects are not. difficult te destroy, reach them ; but their numbers necessitate a immense “ of ‘ ab ® material-. If conveoim.Tyou might at once paint the trees with a mixture of Gil hurst compound, black soap, or 1 -Lie > S adding a little day and ]i mo or s.v : t ?.S means you may weaken them and Vd ' their e.X b l? 5 T? Ug lf ' JS - lm P° S9,ble *9 eradicate them entmtly. Then in spring, wl.cn they apnear on the young snoot,, you must have at them a™l„. If hava force „t water, the best of all i, V„"h them oh with water from a hose pipe or from a "erden engine; otherwise you must use a weakerwluKo“

thp Osfhurst, soU soap, or totaoeo liquor, th* roo*fc efficient manner to apply which is to dip the you'rm shoots into it ; when that is not convenient it must ho hud cm with a syringe or m engine. With regard to the apple or cotton blight, we have np»rn or many mouw of cure, b«Ou r. 5 blue,; tone -- .elution of an ounce lo fitly gallons of water; nUb sm hnv,-. self, m.d sulphur, applied to the roots ; but ;V . !, . VV V ” ,f ‘ ‘ :ul )l in any of them, for we know hvi ores h.an. oeenrred with each and all. ’Wo h.-Twbe.,rom a letter defiling a method of using qu.cfesi.rer. said to h. cm-ctmd, by boring a holt U T-v f H ? U Vw n A,Hvof th * tree, and pouring in a qmLfoL car.mo, me -it this either, especially *ts the quu!&»iiver lum hyu found years after ‘‘not apparently diminish.>d in qntmity,” You mny if expense is not an o; j-.-t, manipulate your trees in the H?.:ne manner ns r.-m amended for the poach? or winch is perhaps better, pour boiling water into'your engine to wash the trees with. It will be cool enough heforn it peaches them nos to bo injurious, but sumciont.y hot to destroy nil insects it may como in contact with. , "V 11 * 9 P t sfc has become such a nuisance that in order that apple growing may be profitable, a great reform must lake place in the cultivation of the trees. Jn the first place they should fao grafted on blight proof stock, which, thanks to persevering entorpwan r -pr> now bo obtained in the Majetin add Wot hern spy apples, both Uuunsclvt'3 first-rate varieties, and which trials of many years have shown to bo entirely blight croof; and, being exceedingly free varieties, make most excellent stocks, equal, if not better, than many seedlings, producing shoots of two or three yards in length in a year. Of course you must not expect that tho top oi the trees will be kept free, unless you ciiocso sorts which are nob liable to tho attack of might, of which several are now known, and others that are only partially liable. But the greatest reform to.be effected is in the pruning, go that tho imba may be clean, free from knobs and spurs, and tho centre open, instead of being filled with useless W -° c j i ehoot * tllafe aro not required should bo pinched oil us soon as they appear, so as to reduce the pasture lor tho aphides, to strengthen those that remain, and to allow tlie passage of the winds.—#weJwunie If’te/cltf • 2 V mtst* •

extracts. Thu following view of San Francisco is from the correspondent of tho St. Louis liep-Mimn “l have not soon ns much of San Francisco as my two weeks wjnu n hfra would warrant, owing to the sever* aocumuum I have received. Tour corresnondonts of tbe rwont r.-ilroad party wrote np tho town so fuflf th •<; it would bo superfluous to add to their desotic. - turns, out I shall probably sue mu oh mota than they, ?i es I have not tho glamour which always attends p.uesls who are entertained at. a city's exoonse surrounding me. Tho miserable coast winds had not mndo Ihoir appearance when they wore hero, and the p»Hy scarcely put fclmip feet upon tho snored sand sod, I opine, or wo might have hoard of those miserable tormentors of the flesh and spirit—floas—which anou.m indigenous to this dime. They have on espe-mil M;ing fur tho blood of foreigners, X am told, and verily, if my experience is a criterion, they aro tho most bloodthirsty of vampires. They hide in yoi r tdoc.kirgs, conceal themselves around tho bands ot yciir ii.ider garments, esconco their majesties in joup coKars arul neckties, and bore away with a per* tmaciJy that is exasperating boyond degree. ‘1 hey insist on attending you to your couch, and enjoy. - concealed, your vain attempts to dislodge them from your bed and board. As an offset to all those things th T n \° wc haven’t any ocean or soa lions to look * at. Vv hat’s the uso of having oceans, bays, and sea ' Jiona, d your land sharks won't let you stand still a f moment to look at them, I should like to know ? between the wind, which fairly takes you off your tcet, and threatens to take jdur clothing off your bac,f, nunig your eyes with sand, tho fleas, tho fogs,tin a tnQ ojju j? ruucisco Ciitiurrli, X'■'biivo been '■■sup?£s wi sjiy f ' 11 miserable. An earthquake would be tho lust drop m th« bucket. They toll mo, however, I will soon get used to them all, and bo so charmed I shall not want toreturn to St, Louis.” ...

Wo take tins description of tho Newton gas 'well, a ’ Pennsylvania wonder, from the Titusville Courier Unquestionably this gas well, which was recently struck on the Nelson farm, an account of which w© gave the other day, is the most wonderful phenomena or tho kind in this country. Some of our exchangesseem to think our description exaggerated 5 hence, aa it was given on hearsay evidence, wo wore not certain that it might not have boon. To solve this problem, iind demonstrate by personal inquiry whether our' informant had drawn on lu» “ imagination for his facts, or on ms “ facta for his imagination,” we yesterday drove over and interviewed the noisy monster * ouraejr. The location is about six miles from tho” city, on the road to Spring Creek. Long before wo reached it its location was ascertained by a rushing noise, sounding precisely like a huge steam boilerblowing off. Wnon we reached tho lane leading from ae tnt,m road to the well, tho escaping gas, as it rushed from four 3£in. pipes, could bo plainly die- ‘ cermbie. it had the appearance precisely like a discharge from a boiler, in which the steam bad been run up to its full capacity previous to blowing off. ifivery step nearer increased the infernal din, and wnen we reached its immediate proximity tho impres- v sion upon,the oars became painful, and compelled ua to resort to filling the orifice with a handkerchief in order to prevent injury to the tympanum. ‘ Conversation, was impossible. Our companion essayed to try his voice, but it was a blank failure. Wo saw the U £ 9 , m ? VOj but a 3 far ns sound, they had no more enoefc tnan they wc»uiu beneath the ssstbing wstsrs of Niagara, After seeing and hearing this noisy wonder of the oil region, we are not surprised that * the cattle in tho vicinity give it a wide- berth, ami ; that it has been found necessary to dismiss tho school in tho neighbourhood, some three-quarters of a mile aw.,y. The query agitating those who have visited the „ell is, what ahull be done with it? If there were any assuran.m that the volume of gas now escaping would keep up, it would be a good specula- - 5 ion to convey it in pipes to the city to bo used in light and heat ; for there is certainly enough cas escaping ami going to waste not only to light every house in Titusville, but n!-o he-»t the same, and urmsh fuel for all tho steam engines punning in the city, ibis may appear an extravagant estimate, but ie uny practical engineer examine it, and we thinkhej will agree that wo uro not “ piling it on too thick,’!** .mfc on the contrary that tho half has not been toldJ We urderstand that the well is in sixty feet of fehe& most promising thin* a mci jot discoveied. If iKia isß so, wo may look for the opening cf a new oil u ltt ‘l t.hai/ yicimty m a very short time.” -il