60 A HOME VEGETABLE-GARDEN 



worms will gnaw their leaves ; lice will suck their 

 juices; cutworms and grubs will prey on stem 

 and root. These enemies one or another or all 

 together are certain to invade the garden and 

 sometimes when least expected. They are sure 

 to ruin the plants attacked unless, straightway, 

 they are fought with intelligence and persistence. 

 Measures may be taken to drive them away. 

 Tobacco never does any harm in the garden; it 

 may be used liberally. Scattered beneath the 

 seeds, the tobacco odor keeps the grubs away. 

 Use tobacco refuse always when transplanting as 

 well. It is as necessary to the young plant then 

 as a heat-producing stimulant and plenty of mois- 

 ture. Sprinkle it thickly in the soil close to the 

 stems of cauliflower, cabbage, and tomato plants. 

 Its proximity will free the cauliflower and cab- 

 bages of cutworms ; the wireworms will leave the 

 tomatoes. Use tobacco around the strawberry 

 plants to rid them of the wireworms and white 

 grubs. Dusted over the potatoes and the tomatoes 

 and scattered above the rows of spinach and beets, 

 it will drive away the flea-beetles that riddle the 

 leaves; it will prevent the leaf -miner from spoil- 

 ing both beet greens and spinach. Soot accom- 

 plishes the same results ; but care is needed in its 

 use, for too much will burn the leaves, especially 

 in damp weather. Sprinkle just a little on the 

 foliage and scatter more of the soot on the soil 

 or stir it in near the endangered plants. Cutworms 



