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borer) chewing insects, and sucking insects. No amount 

 of spraying will "get" cutworms and borers they must 

 be gotten bodily and destroyed. All leaf-chewing in- 

 sects may be poisoned by arsenic sprays. All sucking in- 

 sects may be destroyed by either nicotine sprays or by 

 oily sprays which either choke them or smother their 

 bodies. It is thoroughly practical to spray for both eat- 

 ing and sucking insects at the same time by combining the 

 arsenic with the nicotine remedies. But it is rather 

 wasteful, because the nicotine spray must come in direct 

 contact with the bodies of the bugs, whereas the stomach 

 poison need only hit the foliage in a broad way. 



Sound rules for the application, of all sprays come with 

 all the standard preparations, while stringent laws see to 

 it that the gardener gets just what he buys for the purpose 

 of fighting the battles in the garden. 



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