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treated. . . When the beetles commence to pair [most 

 of] the squashes may be cultivated up, leaving only a few 

 of the vines for the beetles to feed on at flowering time, 

 as the insects prefer the squash flowers and will not 

 molest the others. Beans may be used with some suc- 

 cess as a fall catch [trap] crop." (New York Bulletin 

 No. 158.) 



Other remedies against the beetles are arsenites, air- 

 slaked lime (often used for "driving" the beetles, by 

 sowing before the wind, in the forenoon ; the beetles 

 will fly before it to other crops), pyre thrum, hellebore, 

 plaster saturated with kerosene or turpentine, tobacco 

 water sprayed, or tobacco powder. Apply powders 

 when the leaves are wet, and get on both sides of them. 

 Or start the plants under glass ; set out the early crop 

 as soon as possible, for a good start before the beetles 

 appear ; set out the later crop as late as possible, to 

 avoid the first brood of the pest. Or pick by hand, and 

 trap the beetles under shingles laid about the patch. 



The spotted cucumber-beetle may be fought by the 

 same means. 



Against the cucumber- worm use hellebore, arsenites, 

 hand-picking. Exterminate the first brood. 



Against plant-lice, spray with tobacco water, with 

 one pound whale-oil soap to every fifty gallons; use a 

 bent nozzle to reach the under side of the leaves. Or 

 use bisulphide of carbon in a small plantation, 'covering 

 the young plants with an inverted bowl, using a tea- 



