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looks of the cabbage patch told that. Every plant 

 I had treated was cooked! 



It was really my own fault, for I knew how to 

 deal with most of the cabbage pests long.before last 

 summer. But that hot water cure did sound easy 

 — and I was out of spray dope. When, later on, 

 I found that the worms and aphids were beginning 

 to get troublesome in a patch of Drumhead Savoys, 

 I didn't bother with the tea kettle but took a small 

 compressed air sprayer — one which holds ten 

 quarts of liquid — hitched a nozzle with a crooked 

 neck to it, and filled the tank with the following 

 mixture: nine quarts of water, three ounces of 

 whale oil soap dissolved in a quart of boiling water, 

 one ounce of arsenate of lead. The arsenate of 

 lead was mxed with a little of the liquid soap, 

 then stirred slowly into the rest of the soap suds and 

 added to the water in the tank. The whole was 

 thoroughly shaken, and I was ready for the attack! 



This spray should be applied at high pressure. 

 I didn't bother much about the outer leaves — 

 those which stood well away from what was to be 

 the head of the cabbage. If the spray is applied 

 thoroughly to the central leaves it will catch nearly 



Spraying cabbage with arsenate of lead and whale 

 oil soap to kill worms and aphids 



all the worms, and those which escape will work 

 in toward the centre in their search for the tenderest 

 parts of the plant and will find the arsenate waiting 

 for them. Where a plant is infested with aphids 

 it will be necessary to apply the spray to both sides 

 of every leaf, as little colonies which escape the eye 

 are apt to be scattered anywhere. The plants next 

 in the row to the infected ones need extra looking 

 after, too. 



After very heavy rains, if the white butterflies 

 are in evidence, the spray may have to be repeated 

 although it is quite adhesive — I suppose it is less 

 so where soap is used in the mixture, but without 

 this it is almost impossible to get it to stick to the 

 waxy cabbage leaves. And without the soap, it 

 would be of no use against aphids. 



One year, I used this same spray, with lime- 

 sulphur (commercial solution) added in the propor- 

 tion of one part of solution to thirty of water, 

 around the roots of some cabbage plants which 

 were beginning to wither under the attack of root 

 maggots, and saved every one. I had been spray- 

 ing in the orchard when I noticed that the plants 

 were wilting, and as I had never found any other 

 treatment of much avail, I resorted to this rather 

 desperate one. I'm not sure that it will work 

 every time, but when one is desperate, it is worth 

 trying. 



I have sprayed cabbages within three weeks of 

 using them, although that is much later than will 

 often be necessary, and have never detected any 

 sign of the arsenate. It is absolutely safe to use 



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