FLOUR PASTE AS A COXTKOL FOR RED SPIDERS. 5 



for less than half the cost of whale-oil soap. It is always obtain- 

 able, and having no odor it is less offensive to use than the whale- 

 oil and fish-oil soaps. When used alone at the rate of 8 gallons (8 

 pounds flour) to 100 gallons of water it is effective against several 

 leaf-feeding mites and some very delicate aphides. The possibility 



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-Hindu making flour paste, Sacramento Valley, Cal., 1912. (Original.) 



of its use as a spreader for lime-sulphur spraj^s for scale insects aiul 

 fungi and as a " sticker " for aisenicals has not yet been worked out. 

 but from observations during the past four months it is believed that 

 it may have some value along these lines. 

 Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Sec7'etary of Ayihulture. 

 Washington, D. C, Xovemher 23, 1912. 



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