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Show PROBABLY HYDROCYANIC CAS A dispatch ficm Hozeman Mont lubllshed In the Ilutte Miner tells of what purporta to lie the discover) b) Prof t ooley of the Montana station of n ponnous gas for fumigating at pi tree The dispatch ) Prof It Coole the entomologlat of the United Males experiment station sta-tion announce that he ha devled an effective reined) against the apple ' aphl . The remed) Is extreme- lj simple in application and tests have proven It wholl) effective large, Ikht wooden frame Is made and covered cov-ered with tout paper to make It ilr-tlght ilr-tlght . The box Is placet over a tree md then It la thorough!) fuml-gated fuml-gated with certain noxious fumes It la probable that Prof tools) has been teatlng the well known hjdrocj-unlc hjdrocj-unlc fumigation that haa been In use b) the T'nlted State Department of Agriculture for a number of )eara and ha I een used b) the I tali Mate Hoard of Horticulture for the past two )eara In lighting the ban Jose scale It Is more than llkel) that the correspond cut who gent the dispatch to the Ilutte Miner forgot the name of the ga nnd wi credited Dr I oole) with having de-vised de-vised something new and mysterious It I not ctmtoinar) for men of Dr c ooley s standing to withhold from the public an) discoveries made While It I of tour possible that Dr Coole) ma) have dlscovercl or nodutel fume more deodl) than the h)dro-canlc h)dro-canlc gas )et th. latter has been found to be the most effective fumigation fumiga-tion known for killing nil kinds of insect in-sect life Infesting trees in fact the gaa la no deadl) that great caution Is neceesary when hanlllng It a very slight Inhalation belns suillclent to oaut Instant death to a human being The fumigation xvlth hydrocyanic gas was adopted b) the Utah State Hoard of Horticulture for treatment of nursery nur-sery stock two )ear ago, nnd such fumlgutlon required as a condition precedent to Issuance of a certificate to nurser)tnen So far as we are advised ad-vised the Utah Board of Horticulture was the first In the United States to abandon the old form of ccitlfltate which declared the stock to be apparently appar-ently free fiom insects and tn issue In lieu thereof th certificate that th stock bus been fumigated, this latter carrying with It the uasuranc that the trees aie free from Insect and disease since no animal life no. fui gua i.pore can survive the fumigation The use of h)drocanlc gaa being so common and o effective in I tah as a reined) for the nphls red spider San Jose stale and all fungus, the Inter. Mountain Parmer and Itanchman will anxiously await Information as to whether or not Dr (ooley has really discovered some fumigation that Is simpler ana) better A good brine for curing pork prepara-tory prepara-tory to smoking Is madL as follows Ten pounds of common salt three pints sorghum moiusse or three pound brown ugar and ihre ounce of salt-letr salt-letr all dissolved In two gallun of w ater to each 100 pound of meat rhe Piik hou' I be tV"ough1 coole 1 out so that none of the animal heat Is left In It After four or five weeks In this brine the meat will be read) to smoke A barrel with both ends knocked set ovr a kttlo of smoking chips of hard-wood hard-wood makes a good smokehouse Com cob make good smoke but c hips from a wagon-shop are best Scrub maple from the c anyone Is good tor smoklnif loi k |