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and placed upon the hills. Tobacco in various 

 forms frequently acts as a repellent or deterrent to 

 many insects. Bordeaux mixture is one of the most 

 effective remedies for the flea beetle attacking the 

 leaves of the potato, but repels rather than kills. 



Hand picking is a method of control with which 

 everyone is more or less familiar, although not now 

 so commonly used as formerly. There will be very 

 few of my readers born and raised in the country who 

 have not gathered potato bugs in a bucket or pan, 

 directly destroying them with kerosene, hot water, 

 or by crushing. The gardener of today generally 

 prefers to hand pick the tomato worm, because it 

 usually does not appear in large numbers and is 

 large enough to be easily found. It makes its ap- 

 pearance about the time the tomatoes are ripening, 

 when the use of spray materials would discolor the 

 fruit, or possibly cause danger of poisoning. 



Trapping is often resorted to with certain pests. 

 Cutworms will frequently collect under shingles or 

 bunches of freshly cut grass, where they can be 

 readily found and destroyed. Trap plants or crops 

 may be grown in a very successful manner. 

 For illustration, some gardeners have success- 

 fully eluded the striped cucumber beetle by plant- 

 ing a second hill in three or four days after the first 

 and still a third a few days after the second. The 

 well-known habit of this insect to hunt up the 

 youngest and most tender plants is taken advantage 

 of in this manner. One or two treatments of the 

 first hill will keep the insects away until the second 

 hill comes up, when they are allowed to feed upon 

 this one undisturbed. By the time this hill has 

 been consumed the last hill will be up and the in- 

 sects will begin to feed upon the younger plants. 



