VALUE OF THE KITCHEN GARDEN 



It is safe to assume that the average farmer and 

 market gardener who raises cabbages for market 

 is fairly conscientious in his methods. But this is 

 not true of all, and it is not an unknown thing to 

 hear of isolated cases where Paris green has been 

 used freely after the heads are set on both cabbage 

 and cauliflowers. 



The use of Paris green on potatoes is an estab- 

 lished practice, unavoidably so on plantings of any 

 extent. All the products of the vine cucumbers, 

 squash, and melons are subject to more or less 

 " doping " at the hands of the professional, and 

 currants, gooseberries, and grapes do not always 

 escape their share of the death-dealing chemicals. 

 Now there is little doubt that much of the appli- 

 cations used are, when applied early in the growth 

 of the plant, ere yet it has set its fruit or formed 

 a head, is harmless, but after a plant has made 

 advanced growth, it is certainly the part of wisdom 

 to keep it as near harmless to the human digestive 

 tract as possible. 



Anyone who has watched the action of the vari- 

 ous insecticides, which may be plant poisons that 

 kill the plants on which they are sprayed by en- 

 tering into the circulation and destroying root and 



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