235 WATCHING 
AND SPRAYING 
while the sun is shining. This emulsion is 
fatal even to the dreaded San José scale. As 
experiments are constantly going on along this 
line, the up-to-date farmer or gardener will 
keep in touch with the latest discoveries. 
Whale-oil soap, one pound of soap to four or 
five gallons of water, used to be a popular remedy, 
but it is rapidly giving place to kerosene emul- 
sions, which are more easily prepared and less 
offensive. Tobacco dust will drive away cu- 
cumber and melon beetles, if liberally applied, 
and will lessen the ravages of the flea-beetle. 
But Bordeaux mixture well applied will do the 
same. 
For treating cabbages or other crops late in 
the season, white hellebore is often substituted 
for Paris green, which is a deadly poison. It 
may be applied dry, alone or mixed with half 
as much flour; or in solution, one ounce to 
three gallons of water. 
Spraying enormously increases the yield of 
any crop, and indeed sometimes makes all the 
difference between good crops and no crops. 
So long as insects and diseases exist, any patch 
in any part of the country is lable to attack. 
Because you have escaped so far is not to say 
that you always will escape, so be ready for emer- 
gencies. ‘Timeliness and thoroughness are two 
