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remedies together, they are commonly appHed in Hquid 

 form. When green alone is used, several recommend 

 applying it clear with a poison gun, others mix with 

 plaster or flour. One contestant urges that paris 

 green must be used with great caution in the family 

 garden. Another recommends paris green solution in 

 very fine spray for cucumber beetles. 



A few prefer london purple to the green. C. P. 

 Augur prefers as a general insect remedy an emulsion 

 of quassia chip tea, soft soap and kerosene. For pota- 

 toes and vines E. R. Flagg prefers Bug Death 

 sprinkled on when vines are damp. Liquid manure is 

 spoken of by B. S. Higley as a sovereign remedy for 

 cucumber bugs. Others use for these and squash bugs 

 air-slaked lime, coal ashes or dust, sprinkled on the 

 vines when wet. C. E. Brookhart humorously recom- 

 mends "two small wooden paddles ; get your bug on 

 one, whack it with the other." 



Complains Mr. Sheridan of Colorado: "There is 

 a little insect that eats the leaves of my radishes when 

 they first come up. I dust them with paris green. 

 There is also a kind of scale that looks like flakes of 

 bran that destroys tomatoes. I spray with coal oil 

 emulsion with satisfactory results, also spray canta- 

 loupe vines with the same for a green louse that attacks 

 them." 



A believer in prevention is Mrs. L. M. A. Hall, 

 who says : *T am never troubled much with insects, as 

 I burn all litter and garden rubbish early in the fall, 

 thereby killing a great many eggs. On every trip to 

 the garden I destroy every bug and ^gg, and two large 

 broods of chickens do the rest." 



One gardener uses for cabbage worms an appli- 

 cation of water in which tar has been kept over night. 

 G. W. Hoover finds kerosene emulsion effective; one 

 quart oil to thirty gallons of water, applied every two 



