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GARDEN STEPS 



diseased, and the tubers soon rot under the 

 ground. 



The safest way to insure plants against this blight 

 is to mix a blight preventive with the poison you are 

 using for bugs. Bordeaux mixture is a standard 

 protection. Pyrox and other specifics of like nature 



provide a combina- 

 tion of poison and 

 blight preventive, 

 which enables the 

 gardener to apply 

 both with one dose. 

 For the gardener 

 with a compara- 

 tively small patch, 

 it would- be easier 

 and just as effective 

 to use some stand- 

 ard combination like 

 Pyrox, since it comes 

 in a convenient package, is easy to handle, and is 

 not very expensive. 



There is no safe way to offer a time schedule for 

 spraying or powdering for bugs or blight. The 

 first dose should be given soon after the sprouts 

 appear. After two weeks, enough new foliage will 

 have come to demand another application. How- 

 ever, if it rains soon after the first application and 

 the mixture is washed off, one should not wait 



Results of Potato Blight 



