THE 132 
GARDEN YARD 
planned rotation. In this bulletin, Slingerland 
recommends placing tarred paper cards close 
to the young plants to protect them against the 
maggot; rubbing the eggs of the maggot off 
the base of the young plants, and injecting 
bisulphide of carbon or carbolic acid emulsion 
into the soil about the plants. It is necessary 
to use a syringe made specially for this pur- 
pose. 
The Cornell Bulletin 104, deals with cutworms, 
and New York Bulletins 83 (p. 657) and No. 
144, tell about the cabbage worm or butterfly, 
the common yellow butterfly. Better look 
them up. They recommend persistent use 
of Paris green on the first crop, and a mixture 
made of five pounds pulverized resin; one 
pound concentrated lye; one pint fish oil or any 
cheap oil except tallow; five gallons water. The 
same treatment does for the cabbage looper. 
For aphids, or lice, read the New York Bulletin 
83 (p. 657) and Florida Bulletin 34 (p. 270). 
The injection of bisulphide of carbon in the 
ground, or the application of kerosene emulsion 
to both sides of leaves when young and small; 
tobacco; pyrethrum; Persian insect powder— 
any of these will prove more or less effective. 
New York Bulletin 83 (p. 683) will tell you 
about methods of dealing with the Harlequin 
