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thorough, they may be stamped out with a minimum oi 

 spraying. They increase with marvelous rapidity, and 

 unless they are checked at the outset destructive measures 

 will be found very costly. 



Practically all leaf eating insects can be handled satis- 

 factorily with paris green. The best method of applying 

 is with a blow-gun. Use the pure paris green, putting it 

 on while the plants are wet with dew, or just after a rain. 

 The paris green should be put on just heavy enough to be 

 able to detect it when it comes out of the blow-gun. Some 

 plants have foliage so tender that green can not be 

 used. Snap beans and butterbeans will require arsenate 

 of lead used as a spray, as this preparation is less caustic 

 than paris green. However most garden vegetables are 

 sufficiently resistant to the caustic effects of the paris 

 green to admit of its use without injury to the foliage. 



For worms boring into the tomato, thorough hand pick- 

 ing is the only practical remedy. These worms usually 

 begin their work as soon as the fruit begins to set. The 

 butterfly deposits the egg on the surface of the tomato, 

 ^nd as soon as the egg hatches the larva bores into the to- 

 mato, placing itself beyond the reach of poison. The 

 field should be gone over carefully once a week for several 

 weeks, and every tomato picked ofF that shows a worm 

 hole. This fruit should be buried deeply in the ground 

 and covered up. While the picking of wormy tomatoes 

 is being done every scarred tomato should be taken off 

 also, and you will find that you will have a crop of beau- 

 tiful fine smooth fruit with very few culls. This method 

 of hand-picking will be found profitable especially in to- 

 mato fields that are pruned and staked. 



