No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 1013 



CHEWING INSECTS: 



L Paris green or Arsenate of Lead when discovered. 2. Repeat 

 as ina}' be needed. 



FUNGOUS DISEASES: 



1. Bordeaux mixture wlien leaves open. 2. Repeat every two 

 weeks if needed. 



Oats. 



LOOSE SMUT: 



Soak the seed five to ten minutes in hot water at 133 degrees F. 

 This may be done some time before planting, if desired, and 

 hasten sprouting besides destroying the Smut. 



RUST: 



No good treatment known. 



Onion. 



MAGGOT: 



1. Put the onion bed some distance from the one of the preceding 

 year. 2. Same treatment as for the cabbage root maggot. 



MILDEW: 



1. Burn all the tops in the fall. 2. Rotation of crops. 



SMUT: 



1. Burn all refuse in the fall. 2. Start the onions on land not 

 used for onions the preceding year and transplant — a process 

 which pays for other reasons also. 



Peach, Apricot, Nectarine. 



PEACH BORER: 



1. Wrapping trunk as described for Apple Tree Borer. 2. Mound- 

 ing up earth a foot or more about June 1st, and removing about 

 September 1st. 3. Wash trunk and lower parts of limbs with 

 whitewash and a little glue, with a tablespoonful of Paris 

 green to each bucketful. One, 2 and 3 are alternate methods 

 treatment. See Report of Department for 1898. 



BLACK PEACH APHIS: 



1. Dig refuse tobacco powder or stems, or Kainit into the ground 

 about the roots. 2. Spray with Kerosene Emulsion when the 

 Aphis appears above the ground. 



CURCULIO: ^ 



See under "Plum." 



