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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
Marcn, 1916 
Dry Sprays in the Home Garden 
fused when he reads the usual directions for 
the use of insecticides and fungicides in his 
little garden patch. By the time he has sup- 
plied himself with hellebore and arsenate of 
lead and whale oil soap and kerosene emulsion, 
to say nothing of bordeaux mixture, flour of 
sulphur and some preparation of nicotine he - 
begins to feel that garden making is more of a 
burden than a joy. I have found that it is 
easier to use dry sprays and the results are 
just as satisfactory. ; 
Dry sprays are now being used more or less 
extensively in large orchards and on fields of 
vegetables that cover acres. Whether they give 
equal satisfaction with . liquid sprays when 
employed in that way I leave it for some one 
else to decide, but in the home garden they are 
a decided success. There are several commer- 
cial dust insecticides, one of the best being 
simply a preparation of arsenate of lead. Also, 
there are dust fungicides made of sulphur. 
Many garden makers rely to a very great extent 
on tobacco dust. 
The easiest way to apply the dry spray is by 
means of a simple “gun” designed for the pur- 
pose and costing about one dollar and fifty 
cents. There is a large gun, operated by turn- 
ing a wheel, which will throw a spray into the 
trees and which saves time when considerable 
work is to be done. On the other hand, a 
one or two-pound baking powder or coffee can 
with holes punched in the bottom may be used 
ie ISN’T surprising that the gardener is con- 
Dry sprays are easy to apply and are a decided success 
in the home garden 
as a duster and will be sufficient when only a 
few plants are to be treated. It should not be 
too full to allow shaking of the powder and 
the cover must be fitted on tightly. There 
are also patent sifters or dusters, but the coffee 
can serves very well indeed. 
An arsenate spray will kill every sort of leaf- 
eating pest which enters the garden. It may be 
applied at any time, but of course sticks a 
little better when the leaves are wet with dew. 
It will give protection from the striped beetle, 
the currant worm, the tomato worm, the po- 
tato bug, the corn ear worm. the coddling moth 
in apples, the curculio in plums and cherries, 
and various other insects which feed in the 
same way. 
It is especially important to get the poison 
on early. The flea beetle, for example, is often 
at work on squash plants before the grower 
