WAR ON FIELD AND GARDEN PESTS 229 



The tree-insect pests cost the nation $100,000,000 a 

 year. 



The grasshoppers, cutworms, army worms, wire- 

 worms, leaf-hoppers and other insects cost the nation, 

 annually, more millions than can be counted separately; 

 but the total for all insect pests is $420,000,000. Now, 

 have we not paid this price about long enough? 



The value of the birds destroyed as "game" and for 

 "food" is not a fraction of the value they would save to 

 the national wealth, if permitted to live. Regarding the 

 slaughter of our birds, the increase of insect pests, and 

 the losses they inflict upon us, the great mass of the 

 American people are sound asleep. The situation is 

 illogical, absurd and intolerable. 



In preparing the lime-sulphur mixture this plan may be 

 followed: Sulphur, 15 pounds; unslaked lime, 20 

 pounds; use an iron kettle, thirty to sixty gallons, and 

 some sort of a tank equally large that will hold hot water. 

 In the iron kettle heat to boiling five gallons of water. 

 Add the lime broken into small pieces, but not pulverized. 

 Add immediately the sulphur, stirring it in as the lime 

 slakes. Add hot water as necessary to keep from boiling 

 over. Boil constantly from the time the lime is put in 

 until the mixture is done. Boil for an hour or more un- 

 til properly cooked, when it will be of a dark amber 

 color. Color does not change when mixture has suf- 

 ficiently cooked. Add hot water until you have forty- 

 five gallons, keep stirred and strain through a fine 

 strainer into the barrel or tank. Spray onto trees imme- 

 diately. Apply when the leaves are off, during winter or 

 in early spring. Never let the mixture stand over night 

 or until cold before applying it; it will not do the work 

 when allowed to stand. Remember to keep it boiling all 

 the time while cooking. Where desirable, steam may 

 be used for cooking this mixture, but the mixture must 

 be constantly stirred during cooking process. 



