WAR ON FIELD AND GARDEN PESTS 227 



There are those who have taken advantage of the aids to 

 practical horticulture, and their fruits are known in the 

 markets as being clean, smooth and sound. Anyone 

 knows how poor a chance for sale wormy, knotty or 

 scabby fruit has beside that which is nearly perfect. 



Many experts declare they cannot raise fruit success- 

 fully unless they spray at the end of the blossoming 

 period and again after the fruit has gained some size. 

 The cutworm is particularly destructive and hard to fight. 

 These insects eat the buds and young foliage only during 

 the night. During the day they hide at the base of the 

 tree, going down a few inches into the soil. 



The best treatment for this pest is to scatter poisoned 

 bait close to the tree. This is made by mixing one 

 pound of paris green to twenty pounds of bran, then 

 adding one or two quarts of molasses. Work up with 

 enough water to make a stiff mash. Do not let chickens 

 have access to this poisoned bran. As a supplement to 

 this treatment spray the trees with bordeaux mixture. 

 The same scheme of treatment will answer for the garden 

 cutworms. The bordeaux mixture will help to protect 

 plants. When cutworms attack corn or other crops the 

 poisoned bran scattered in the fields will prove effective. 



For successful coping with the codling moth it is 

 essential that all fallen and diseased fruit should be 

 gathered and destroyed. Where bandages are used these 

 should be removed and thoroughly cleaned or destroyed. 

 The poison used with best results in killing codling moths 

 is arsenate of lead. Bordeaux mixture or a lime-sulphur 

 wash is added as a fungicide. 



The potato beetle is one of the worst insect enemies 

 of potatoes. They come in small numbers, first laying 

 clusters of orange-colored eggs on the under side of the 

 leaves. Then is the time to begin to destroy them, before 

 they have had time to do much injury. The eggs hatch 



