268 Insects and Sprays 



The toad is the gardener's best friend. Never 

 kill one. In three months he will devour ten 

 thousand insects, among which are beetles, worms, 

 snails, spiders, grasshoppers, crickets, weevils, moths, 

 caterpillars, wasps, yellow-jackets, ants, and others. 

 It never eats food without life. It can live two 

 years without eating but cannot live long under 

 water, and it can lay more than a thousand eggs 

 a year. Cultivate toads. 



Angleworms do not harm plants. Instead they 

 bring good soil to the surface and mix it with the 

 other soil. They draw leaves, grass, etc., into 

 their holes and make humus and when they die 

 they fertilize the soil with their bodies. Robins 

 would eat more fruit than they do now if they had 

 not angleworms to feed on. 



To protect tomato plants from the cutworm, wrap 

 pieces of paper around the stem of the plant 

 for about two inches below the soil and a slight 

 distance above. Poisoned bran scattered on the 

 ground near the plants will kill the cutworms. 

 Be careful not to get it on the leaves of the plants. 



Birds eat many of the harmful insects. 



Insects are usually most prevalent on the young 

 twigs of plants and it is there the spraying should 



