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 REMEDIES FOR TWO CURRENT PESTS. 



By E. M. Ehrhorn, Superintendent of Entomology. 



Cutworms Damaging Vegetables and Young Plants in the 

 Flozver Garden. 



Complaint comes to the Division of Entomology of young 

 plants and vegetables being damaged or killed by worms which 

 are found curled up in the soil about the plants. These are cut- 

 worms, the larvae of owlet moths. Searching for the worms 

 around the plants and killing them will naturally check their 

 ravages. The following poison bait placed about the plants in 

 small quantities will attract the cutworms and will readily kill 

 them. Use the following ingredients : 



Parisgreen, ^2 pound, 

 Molasses, y^ gallon. 

 Bran, 10 pounds. 



Mix the parisgreen and bran dry, seeing that they are thoroughly 

 mixed. Add the molasses and just enough water to moisten the 

 mass. Place the mixture about the plants in small quantities, 

 from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful. Care must be taken to 

 keep domestic animals, chickens or small children away from 

 the poison. 



Rose Mildezc. 



Many tea roses now show a white powdery or mealy sub- 

 stance on the young foliage. This is the powdery mildew, a very 

 common fungus of various plants. When first noticed it can be 

 checked by dusting the plants with dry powdered or sublime sul- 

 phur. In very bad cases where the fungus has been allowed to 

 spread for some time, the following remedy will give good 

 results : 



Dissolve 1 oz. of copper sulphate (blue stone) in 1 pint of hot 

 water. Dissolve 2 oz. of carbonate of soda (sal soda) in 1 pint 

 of hot water. Mix the two solutions and let stand for a few 

 hours, then add 1^ liquid ounces of ammonia and add enough 

 water to make 1^ gallons of spray mixture with which to spray 

 the plants thoroughly. Repeat the spraying again in two or three 

 days if the plants were badly infested. 



