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INDEX. 



Insecticides and fungicides for farm and orchard crops in Massachusetts — 

 Concluded. 

 Fungicides — Concluded. 

 Protective applications 

 Copper fungicides 

 Bordeaux mixture 

 Commercial Bordeaux preparations 

 Pickering sprays . 

 Sulfur fungicides 



Lime-sulfur solutions 

 Self-boiled lime-sulfur 

 Sulfur dust .... 

 Insecticides ..... 

 Contact poisons for sucking insects 

 Nicotine ..... 

 Oil sprays .... 



Emulsions .... 

 Miscible oils 

 Pyrethrum .... 

 Soaps ..... 

 Fish-oil soap and nicotine 

 Laundry soap 



Rosin fish-oil soap, soap "stickers" 

 Whale-oil or fish-oil .soap 

 Sulfur sprays .... 

 Barium tetrasulfide 

 Dry lime-sulfur 

 Formulas for application 

 Lime-sulfur .... 

 Soluble sulfur 

 Stomach poisons for biting insects 

 Arsenicals .... 



Arsenates, lead and calcium . 

 Arsenical injury 

 Arsenites, Paris green 

 Standard formulas for application 

 Hellebore .... 



Literature cited .... 

 Insects: 



Codling moth 

 Corn ear worm 



Cranberry 



Digger wasps 



In a candy factory 



Onion maggot 



Reported during the year 



Scale insects . 



Seed corn maggot 



Squash bugs . 



Squash vine Ixjrer 



Striped cucumber beetle . 

 Lettuce drop, methods of control 

 Light, optimum conditions for plant response 

 Lime absorption and acidity of Field A . 

 Lime inspection ..... 



21a 

 51a 

 21a, 158 

 19a 

 20a 

 19a 

 52a 

 21a 

 50a 

 20a 

 20a 

 51a 

 22a 

 10a 

 9a 

 34a 



