191 VINE OR 
CUCURBITOUS CROPS 
specially constructed, stove-heated houses for 
storing them. 
A third type includes the Winter Crooknecks, 
Dunkard, Tennessee Sweet Potato Pumpkin, 
and some others. The culture of both squash 
and pumpkin is the same as for cucumber. 
The insects from which they most suffer are: 
the squash bug and the melon louse. To rid 
the fields of the bug, keep them free from rub- 
bish. Trap the bugs with bits of squash leaves 
and every day in spring pick off the old bugs. 
Read New Jersey Bulletin 94; New York Bulle- 
tin 75, and Florida Bulletin 34. 
For melon louse read Kentucky Bulletin 53 
as well as those already mentioned. Get lice 
in their winter quarters and destroy at first 
appearance. Use bisulphide of carbon as the 
bulletin directs. 
Powdery and Downy Mildew are the worst 
diseases. For powdery mildew, spray with am- 
moniacal copper carbonate, and read Massachu- 
setts State Report, 1892, p. 225, and Cornell 
Bulletin 31. For downy mildew, use Bordeaux 
mixture every eight or ten days, until frost, and 
read Massachusetts State Report, 1890, p. 211, 
and New York Bulletin 119. 
