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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1912 



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are rarely noticed, especially since they find the 

 weeds and grasses fully as desirable as the more 

 mature garden crops. Therefore: 



Rule 1. — Plow unused land in July if possible, 

 or in August, and keep it in clean cultivation until 

 the latest possible date when you can sow a winter 

 cover crop. This will remove a vast amount of 

 food and result in the starving of many young 

 worms, besides destroying myriads of eggs laid 

 upon grass stems, fallen leaves, etc. 



In the spring, after a winter spent in a half grown 

 state, the worms are ravenous; at this time, too, 

 food is scarce until we set out tender lettuce, cab- 

 bage and tomato plants. Little wonder that they 

 are attacked. Fortunately the worms prefer bran 

 even to young seedlings. Therefore: 



Rule 2. — Mix a pound of paris green or its 

 equivalent of some arsenical poison with a bag of 

 bran (or a tablespoonful to a quart), moisten the 

 mixture slightly, and scatter a little around each 

 newly set plant, tlie same evening that it is trans- 

 planted. This rule may be varied to the extent of 

 using freshly cut clover soaked in or sprayed with 

 a poison solution. The pith of the matter is, 

 provide a poisoned bait. 



In a garden devoted solely to vegetables this 

 should suffice to save the crops from destruction. 

 And yet, lest you tempt providence too far, sow 

 your seed generously so that even if a few seedlings 

 are taken you will not have to mourn a serious loss. 

 If you grow fruit, especially peaches, and follow 

 Rule 1, which removes much of the food of the 

 young worms, those that survive the winter will 

 probably attack your fruit buds before the vege- 

 table season begins. Just when they are tenderest, 

 the marauders will sneak up the trees about ten 

 o'clock in the evening, feed and destroy until nearly 

 dawn, then, taking a fh~ing leap to the ground, will 

 scurry to a hiding place just below the surface. 

 To combat this manoeuvre, practice 



Rule 3. — Band each tree with some sticky sub- 

 stance that will not dry out, or WTap around 

 it a strip of cheap cotton-batting about eight 

 inches wide. (To make this most effective, wrap 

 it with the smooth side out, and tie it tightly around 

 the bottom; then pull the upper part down over 

 the tied portion making a cone-shaped protector 

 that maintains its shape for a long time, quickly 

 drying out after rains.) Then scatter around the 

 foot of each tree some of the poisoned bran. Events 

 should proceed like this: Some of the worms will 

 find the bran on their way to the tree and will 

 refuse to go farther; these will be soon accounted 

 for. 



Others, more venturesome spirits, will climb, 

 encounter the band and waste their obstinate 

 energies trying to cross it. Now you can either 

 smite them there, with a stick or a heavy glove, 

 or you can leave them to eventually climb down 

 in hungry disgust, find the bait and, literally, gorge 

 themselves to death. 



Oftentimes a satisfyingly large number of worms 

 can be destroyed if you will take the trouble to dig 

 around the base of each tree. The worms con- 

 gregate within a foot of the trunk and rarely, if 

 ever, more than an inch under the surface. 



All this handwork and close application might 

 become both tedious and expensive upon a large 

 farm attacked by the pest. But in the small 

 garden such methods easily become part of the 

 daily routine. 



New York. E. L. D. S. 



A New Insecticide 



AS A substitute for carbon bisulphide for 

 fumigating plants, experiments have been 

 made with carbon tetrachloride, a colorless, oily, 

 and transparent fluid. It has a much less dis- 

 agreeable odor than the bisulphide and also has the 

 advantage of being nonexplosive. It is, therefore, 

 perfectly safe for home use, although you will find 

 it costs from three to four times more than the 

 bisulphide. 



Bulletin 96, Part IV.. Bureau of Entomology, 

 recently issued by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, is a summary of various interesting expe- 

 riences with tetrachloride. In fumigating trees 

 and shrubs, it killed scale and was found not very 

 poisonous to the higher forms of animal life; m 



