AND OTHER INJURIOUS INSECTS OF I907 AND I908. y] 



Plum Curculio, Caterpillars, etc., and all insects which 

 Plum. eat twig, leaf or fruit. Most fungous troubles. No. 1 as 



under Apple. Lice or Aphids: See under Apple. Curled 

 leaves concealing lice may be picked ofif and destroyed. 



Anthracnose: This disease can be kept within bounds by 

 Raspberry. cutting out infested canes, and early spraying with No. 1, 



with or without the Paris green. Repeat at intervals of 

 about ten days, avoiding spraying when bushes are in bloom. Stop spray- 

 ing some time betore the fruit begins to ripen. Where vines are badly 

 infested they should be destroyed. 



Currant and Gooseberry Worm: Use No. 2, one pound 

 Currant and in ten gallons of water, or No. 3, one pound in twenty- 

 Gooseberry. five pounds of air slaked lime, while fruit is small. 



Afterwards hellebore as dry dust when leaves are wet 

 with dew, or one ounce in one gallon water sprayed or thrown on with 

 small broom. The worms may begin their work on the inside of the 

 bushes, and are likely to be overlooked. No. 1 could be used in place of 

 No. 2 or No. 3. 



Rust, Flea Beetle, Leaf Roller: No. 1 before flowering, 

 Strawberry. and once immediately after bloom has fallen. Two or 



more applications after harvesting the fruit. 



Blight, Beetles, striped and otherwise: No. 1 first appli- 

 Melons. cation when about four or five leaves, then keep foliage 



well covered by spraying with No. 1 every eight or ten 

 days. Spray under side of leaves as far as possible. Pick off diseased 

 leaves as fast as they appear. Do not spray during the harvesting of the 

 crop. Vines should be collected and burned immediately after crop has 

 been gathered. Lice. If patch is small, spray under side of leaves with 

 No. 4 or No. 5. Destroy all old vines. 



-, , Beetles: Same as under Melons, or dust plants with 



Cucumbers -^ . a ■ a ■^\ ac^ a t \ 



J Pans green one pound, mixed with nity pounds or cheap 



^j , flour or lime. Plant an excess of seed. True Squash 



^ ' Bug: Hand picking early in morning; planting an excess 



of seed; where plants are not too numerous protection by coverings until 



they are beyond injury. Hand picking of large yellow eggs. Destroy all 



vines after gathering crop. This bug, it is claimed, will attack squashes 



(or pumpkins) before it does cucumbers or melons, therefore, raisers have 



protected their melons by planting squashes and pumpkins near them as a 



catch crop. 



Cut Worms and Wire Worms: Use paper about stem, 

 Tomatoes. making a collar which extends into the ground two 



inches, and four inches above ground, tin cans with ends 

 burned of¥, in fact anything which will make a protective collar for a time. 

 Poison bran mash with Paris green, sweeten and place these baits about, 

 not too near the plants. Careful and frequent cultivation, killing worms 

 when found; searching in ground near cut plants for worms, and killing 

 same. Blights (and cut worms, flea beetle, etc.) No. 1 when plants are in 

 cold frame or green house, and spray under side of leaves as far as possible. 

 Repeat three or four times after plants are set out, at intervals of eight or 

 ten days, spraying the ground about the plant as well as the plant. Destroy 



