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VEGETABLE GARDENING 



They winter over in rubbish, under 

 boards, or anywhere they can find 

 protection. 



Remedies. Hand picking in the 

 morning and evening, at which times 

 the bugs are somewhat torpid, is the 

 most practical remedy. Boards laid 

 among the plants at night will be 

 found to have many bugs under 

 them in the morning, and these may 

 be crushed or otherwise destroyed, 

 e white Lar e numbers may be killed in this 



fly, adult and pupa highly ... .. 

 magnified. (Chittenden.) Wd > 



REVIEW QUESTIONS 



Name two biting and two sucking insects and remedies. 



Paris green? Kerosene emulsion? 



1. 



2. What is pyrethrum? 

 Tobacco? Carbon bisulphide? 



3. How is each applied? Give formula for using. 



4. What are objections to catching insects at night by a light? 



5. How are insecticides applied? 



6. Give the life history of Colorado potato beetle, and remedies. 



7. Give the life history of cabbage worm, and remedies. 



8. Give the life history of cabbage plusia, and remedies. 



9. Give the life history of wire worms, and remedies. 



10. Give the life history of cut-worms, and remedies. 



11. Give the life history of striped cucumber beetle, and remedies. 



12. Give the life history of white grub, and remedies. 



13. Give the life history of maggots, and remedies. 



14. Give the life history of cabbage flea beetle, and remedies. 



15. Give the life history of leaf lice, and remedies. 



16. Give the life history of cabbage lice, and remedies. 



17. Give the life history of parsley worm, and remedies. 



18. Give the life history of chinch bug, and remedies. 



19. Give the life history of bean-pea weevil, and remedies. 



20. Give the life history of squash vine borer, and remedies. 



