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Dust of Coal Ashes, Destructive to Currant, Cucumber and Cabbage Worms.
The Fruit Recorder says it has for 3 or 4 years saved their currants by dusting on the fine sifted ashes the same as the lime above, and adds: " They are as effective to keep the striped bug off the cucumber vines, " and it thinks also effective against the cabbage worm. Certainly coal ashes is an excellent fertilizer for currants and all other small fruits, as given next below, and I have not a doubt, equally valuable for the orchard generally.
Coal Ashes as a Fertilizer for the Soils; Also Valuable for Cherry and Other Fruit Trees, etc. —I. For the Currants. —Common coal ashes, well distributed about roots of currants, is one of their best promo. ters. This should be done by loosening the soil about their roots and placing the ashes near them, cover firmly with earth above, and the bushes will bear such clusters as will speak the beneficial effects of this application of material too commonly thrown aside as of no use.
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