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;il)lii(ls of whcjil, aH'iiir;! or hop Ik'kis 

 would be to destroy their stem inolhers 

 in iifiirby orcliards. 



On tile- other hMiid, tiie life histories 

 of many important species are imper- 

 fecth known. Where do the winged 

 cahhage lice migrate in the fall? Do 

 the extremely few eggs left by the 

 black cherry ajihid on cherry trees 

 represent the only method of carrying 

 Ihis species over the winter? If so, 

 why do not the lice appear in earliest 

 si)ring, or why cannot this insect be 

 coiilrolled by winter sprays destructive 

 to a|)liis eggs? Docs the woolly aphid 

 of the apple necessarih' spend the win- 

 ter as hibernaliiig individuals on the 

 roots, or do oui- Western specimens 

 follow the recently-discovered routine 

 of migrating to elm trees to deposit 

 winter eggs? Sonic of these puzzles 

 are intimately correlated with methods 

 of IrcatnienI and should be solved as 

 soon as possible. 



The best sinide maleiial found to 

 control aphids is nicotine, which is 

 now readily obtainable on the market 

 in concentrated form. The usual 10 per 

 cent nicotine sulphate is fatal to plant 

 lice when diluted approximately one 

 part to one thousand. The addition of 

 soap at the rate of a pound to one 

 hundred gallons vastly improves the 

 use of nicotine as a summer spray. 

 .Spraying should be undertaken before 

 the aphids have curled the leaves or it 

 becomes impossible to wet all the in- 

 sects with this contact spray. If only 

 a few are missed the prolific insects 

 increase in a few days to even greater 

 numbers than before. The same mate- 

 rial may be directed against the sexual 

 egg-laying females in the late fall of 

 the year after the fall migrants have 

 returned to the trees. 



Sulphur-Iime is generally accredited 

 as a valuable winter treatment for 

 ajjbis eggs. While orchards regularly 

 sprayed with sulphur-lime are freer 

 from aphis injury than those unsprayed 

 it seems that the benefit comes prin- 

 cipally from the after effects on the 

 batched stem mothers, for aphis eggs 

 hatch aijparently as well whether 

 sprayed with sulphur-lime or not. 

 This is largely true also in the case of 

 oil si)raying. The addition of nicotine 

 t(i sulphur-lime, however, produces a 

 spray fatal alike to eggs and precocious 

 stem mothers, and as the combination 

 is more efiective against scale insects 

 and orchard mites il ijrobably is a 

 practice worth while. The standard 

 formula designed for application when 

 buds begin to .swell calls for one gallon 

 Id per cent nicotine concentrate, sev- 

 enty gallons full-strength (.S3 ) sul- 

 phui'-linie anil nine lumdred and thirty 

 gallons water. To this no soap should 

 be added. 



.\phids on <)i-namciital plants or on 

 cil.\ trees can usuallx be successfully 

 combated by using the garden bo.se 

 with water under pressuic. NVheii the 

 insects are forcefull,\- knocked from the 

 plants Ihcy rarely recover. 



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