BUGS AND BLIGHTS 



You may see a small beetle, striped yellow and 

 black or yellow and green, around your melons and 

 cucumbers. He does not do much harm, but his 

 children are terrors. Mother Striped Beetle lays 

 some eggs close to the stem of the vine ; baby grubs, 

 called "borers," hatch from these eggs and at once 

 go into the stem of the vine and eat their way 



CORN WORMS BUSILY AT WORK. THE MOTHER LAYS HER EGGS NEAR THE 

 SILK AND HER CHILDREN GO INTO THE EAR OF CORN 



straight up the center of it, which of course causes 

 the plant to die, as the sap cannot circulate to feed 

 the leaves, blossoms and fruit. Our only hope is to 

 poison Mother Striped Beetle before she lays her 

 eggs. As melons have a disease called "blight" as 

 well as a bug to chew them, we have to spray for 

 two things. We use a poison to kill the bug, and a 

 fungicide to kill the blight (which is really fungus) . 

 So get some Arsenate of Lead and Bordeaux Mix- 



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