THE BOOK OF VEGETABLES 



Fig. 33. Female Cabbage Butterfly. When 

 these are seen among the plants, ex- 

 pect the appearance of cabbage 

 worms. 



boiling water to make five gallons. " New York Bulletin 

 No. 144.) To a gallon of this, in 16 gallons of water, 

 add three gallons of milk of lime, or whitewash, and a 



quarter pound of Paris 

 green. Spray by hand, 

 reaching all parts of 

 the plants and using 

 a strongly made 

 sprayer. Other reme- 

 dies for the worms are 

 hand-picking, tobacco 

 dust, pyrethrum, helle- 

 bore, one ounce arsen- 

 ical poison in six pounds flour or in ten of air-slaked 

 lime, or some other insect powder applied liberally 

 and often, especially while the plants are young, to 

 destroy the early broods. Spray with w r ater at 160, 

 kerosene emulsion diluted eight times, arsenites in 

 water. 



For cabbage-looper, the same remedies. 

 For the harlequin bug, use blow-torch ; place pieces 

 of wood or large leaves about the plants and kill the 

 bugs that collect under them ; plant mustard between 

 the Cabbages and spray with pure kerosene. Keep the 

 patch clean, in the fall burn all rubbish, and in the 

 spring make every effort to destroy the first brood. 

 Pick by hand. 



Against the troublesome root-maggot, place paper 



