ANT DESTROYER. A non-poisonous powder which 
sprinkled around their haunts, will destroy or drive 
away black ants from lawns, trees, plants, houses 
cr Other affected locality. Price, } lb. can, 40c.; 
1 bl. can, 75c. 
APHINE. Aphine while a powerful insecticide, 
does not affect the most tender vegetables, fruits 
or ornamental plants. It is a combination of 
essential and_ethereal oils combined with nicotine 
in a readily soluble form which can be easily di- 
luted with water and applied as a spray, wash or 
dipping solution. It kills all insects. Green and 
black fly, thrips, red spider, slugs, ants, mealy 
bug, scale, etc. Price, 1 gill, 25c.; 3 pint, 40c.; 
pint, 65c.; quart, $1.00; gallon, $2.50, 
ARSENATE OFLEAD. A poison rapidly taking the 
place of Paris green. Its great advantages are that 
it adheres well to the foliage and spraying does not 
have to be repeated as it does not readily wash off 
by rain. It also remains well suspended in solution 
so that an even distribution can be obtained. Itis 
white in color and shows just where it has been ap- 
plied. Its principle advantage lies in the fact that 
it does not injure tender foliage. Price, 1 lb. tin, 
20c.; 5 Ib. tin, 90c.; 124 Ib. pail, $2.00; 25 1b. bucket, 
$3.75; 50 lb. bucket, $7.00; 100 lb. keg, $12.00; 
300 1b. bbl., $30.00. 
BEECHCREOT.. A wood preserving tree paint pre- 
pared from beechwood creosote and other sub- 
stances. It kills fungus and is shunned by borers 
and other insects. It prevents decay in the por- 
tions-of trees injured by storm torn limbs and 
applied after pruning it prevents bleeding. One 
gallon applied with a brush covers about 300 square 
feet. Price, 40c. per quart, $1.25 per gal. 
BORDEAUX MIXTURE. (Standard Formula, 1 gal- 
lon makes 50 gallons of spray.) Ready for use by 
simply adding water. An indispensable Fungicide, 
curing and preventing black rot, mildew, blight, 
rust, scab and all fungoid diseases on fruits and 
plants. Price, 1 pint, 25c.; 1 quart, 35c.; 1 gallon, 
85c.; 5 gallons, $4.00. 
BUG DEATH. Is a non-poisonots, insect-killing 
powder, that is in high favor, especially among 
many Southern market gardeners, who use it ex- 
tensively for cabbage and tomato worms, potato 
and cucumber bugs, etc. It is applied with a 
duster, bellows or powder-gun, at the rate of about 
12 ibs. per acre. Price, 15c. lb.; 3 lbs., 35c.; 5 Ibs., 
50c.; 123 Ibs., $1.00; 100 lbs., $7.50. 
BUG DEATH SHAKER for applying above, 25c. 
CLUBICIDE. An insecticide, germicide and disin- 
fecting fluid particularly valuable in addition to its 
other uses—as a soil sterilizer. It destroys all 
soil insects, ants, worms, slugs, maggots and fung- 
us diseases and in consequence plants attain maxi- 
mum root development and produce larger and 
better crops. It is a certain preventative of club 
root, maggots and root lice that infest carrots, 
onions, cabbage, asters, etc. Water the plants 
thoroughly with it once a week in proportion of 
1 galion of Clubicide to 1000 gallons of water gradu- 
ally increasing the strength to one gallon of 
Clubicide to 500 gallons of water as the plants 
approach maturity. Price, 1 qt. 60c.; gal.L$2.00; 
5 gal., $8.00. 
COPPER SOLUTION, AMMONIATED. A Fungi- 
cide the same as Bordeaux Mixture, the essential 
ingredient, “‘ Carbonate of Copper.”’ being dissolved 
in ammonia in this, while in Bordeaux it is counter- 
acted by lime. Bordeaux is the cheaper and most 
popular for all ordinary purposes, but for late 
sprayings, when fruits are nearing maturity, or 
plants in bloom, Copper Solution is usually used, 
as there is no limy sediment left to be washed off 
by rain or hand before marketing. One quart is 
sufficient for 25 gallons of spray. Price, 1 quart, 
50c.; 1 gallon, $1.50. 
CUT WORM FOOD. A sweetened poisoned com- 
pound alluring and palatable to cut worms, cab- 
bage worms etc., in consequence when sprinkled 
around such newly set plants as are usually “ cut 
off ’’ by these depredators, they feast on cut worm 
food and are destroyed. One pound is sufficient 
for about 100 plants. Price, 1 lb., 25c.; 5 Ib., 
$1.00; 10 1b., $1.50; 25 Ib., $3.50; 50 1lb., $5.00; 
100 Ib. $9.00. 
FIR TREE OIF SOAP. A popular Insecticide; 
it frees plants of, nearly all insects to which they 
are subject, and for the following it has no superior: 
Mealy bug, scale; red spider, aphis, thrip, blight, 
worms and slugs, An ounce makes 1 gallon. 
Price, 3 lb., tin, 25c.; 2 lbs., 75c.; 5 Ibs., $1.75; 
10 Ibs., $3.25, 
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ABOUT MAILING. 
Powders and Soaps (those 
offered by the pound) —non- 
potsonous—can be sent by mail, 
af 15c. per lb. 1s added to the 
prices to pay postage. Fluids 
(those offered by the quart, etc.), 
and poisonous powders are not 
mailable. 
FISH OIL SOAP. 
(Whale Oil Soap). 
Makes an excellent 
wash for trees and 
plants where insects 
and eggs affect the 
bark, and for smear- 
ing on the trunks of trees to prevent worms from 
crawlingup. Price, lic. perlb.; 21bs., 30c.; 51bs., 
60c.; 25 lbs., and over at 10c. per Ib. 
FORMALDEHYDE is a comparatively non-poisonous 
microbicide and antiseptic, of a gaseous nature 
absorbed by water, and may be readily diluted 
in any proportion. It is of pronounced efficiency 
in destroying disease germs affecting both animal 
and plant life, and is successfully employed as a 
preventive of such fungoid diseases as potato scab, 
onion and grain smuts, musty corn and other af- 
fected seeds, damping off of seedlings, club root of 
roses, etc., for the restraining of decay in vege- 
tables, fruits, etc., and as an antiseptic wash and 
spray for bark diseases, canker and wounds in 
trees, and as a disinfectant for stables, kennels, 
poultry houses, etc. The dilution for most pur- 
poses is 1 lb. (1 pint) Formaldehyde to 15 or 20 
gallons of water and 1 to 2 gallons of this dilu- 
tion is required for treatment of every bushel of 
seed. Price of Formaldehyde (40 volume %), 
1 lb. bottle, 40c.: 5 lb. bottle, at 35c. lb.; 10 1b. 
bottle, at 30c. 1b.; 50 Ib. demijohn, at 25c. Ib. 
132 lb. carboy, at 23c. lb. 
FUMIGATING TOBACCO POWDER. Extra strong 
Havana Tobacco Dust for fumigating. Price, 
25 lb. bag, $1.25; 50 1b. bag, $2.00; $3.50 per 100 lb. 
bag; $40.00 per ton of 2000 lbs. 
HELLEBORE, Powdered White. For the destruc- 
tion of slugs, worms, caterpillars, etc. Less poison- 
ous than Paris Green and London Purple, and 
safer to use when fruits or vegetables are nearly 
ripe. Can be used as a powder or dissolved, 1 oz. 
in 3 gallons of water. Price, 25c. per lb.; 5 Ibs., 
$1.10; 10 Ibs., $2.00. 
HENDERSON’S X. L. POWDER for DOGS and 
POULTRY. Non-poisonous insect powder for 
insects on dogs, cats, chickens, etc. Price, 1 lb. 
box, 25c.; $2.50 per doz.; postage extra, 15c. each. 
IMPORTED SCOTCH SOFT COAL SOOT. This 
prevents insect ravages and also acts as a stimulat- 
ing fertilizer. Used in onion drills, radish beds 
cabbage grounds, etc., it checks the attacks of grubs 
cut-worms, etc. When scattered lightly, as a top- 
dressing around plants, it drives away insects that 
hide in the ground by day and lay their eggs near 
the roots. Price, only in 100 lb. bags, $4.00. 
KEROSENE EMULSION. Prepared according to 
the most improved formula; ready for use by simply 
adding water (25 to 50 parts water to one of Emul- 
sion.) For cabbage worm, scale on trees, cater- 
pillars, melon louse, rose bugs, green fly and lice 
of all kinds, all sucking insects, either on plants or 
animals. Price, 1 pint, 20c.; 1 quart, 30c.; 1 gallon, 
85c.; 5 gallons, $3.50. 
LEMON OIL. An efficient insecticide for destroying 
all insects and soft scales. It is applied as a spray 
or wash and has an agreeable odor. 3 pint, 25c.; 
1 pint, 40c.; quart, 75c.; 3 gal., $1.25; 1 gal., $2.00. 
LIME,"SULHPUR SOLUTION. A liquid compound 
of the ingredients mentioned, now extensively 
used for all scale insects on trees and shrubs and 
it is also of benefit for fungous diseases of the 
bark, etc., as can be treated in winter. It must 
be diluted and applied with a spray pump while 
the trees are dormant, after the leaves have fallen 
in fall and before the buds swell in spring. It can 
be used quite strong—say 1 gallon to 20 gallons of 
water—during December, January and February, 
but earlier or later than these months it will be 
safer to dilute it 1 gallon to 40 of water. Price, 
quart can, 30c.; gallon, 85c.; 5 gallons, $4.00; 
barrel of 50 gallons at 65c. gallon. 
NICOTEEN. An extract of tobacco, containing 
about 40 per cent. nicotine. A most effectual 
economical and safe remedy for fumigating green- 
houses. Use a scant tablespoonful to 1} pints of 
water for each pan, which is sufficient when vapor- 
ized, by placing a hot iron, in it for 600 square 
feet of floor space. Price, pint bottle, $1.50. 
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NICOTICIDE. An extract of tobacco used in fumi- 
gation. The required quantity is placed in a tin 
dish and evaporated by a spirit lamp, placed 
underneath. An effectual remedy for insects in 
the greenhouse, window garden or frames. Price, 
4 oz. can, 70c.; 3 pint, $1.25; pint, $2.50; gallon, 
$18.00. 
NICO-FUME. A tobacco paper strongly saturated 
with pure nicotine. It comes in strips, which, sus- 
pended and lighted, is one of the best, easiest 
simplest and least injurious methods of fumigating 
conservatories and greenhouses for the destruction 
of aphis and all insects that succumb to tobacco 
insecticides. One sheet is sufficient for two thou- 
sand cubic feet or more. Price, air tight cans of 
two dozen sheets, 75c. or by mail, 90c.; 1 gross 
sheets, $3.50; 2 gross sheets, $6.50. 
PARIS GREEN. A poisonous, insoluble powder 
indispensable on the farm or garden for preventing 
the ravages of potato bugs, codling moth, worms, 
caterpillars, slugs and bugs. Applied as a powder 
it should be mixed with plaster or flour, 100 parts 
to 1 part of Paris Green, in solution mix 1 Ib. in 
200 to 300 gallons water. Price, 4 Ib. package, 
20c.; 1 lb. package, 35c.; 5 1b. package, $1.75; 28 1b. 
bucket, $8.00; 100 lb. keg, $28.00. 
PERSIAN POWDER OR BUHACH. Henderson’s 
Superior Grade. (Cheap adulterated grades are 
worthless.) A most effective, non-poisonous, im- 
palpable powder, so fine that it penetrates the 
innermost crevices. For worms, flies, aphis and 
almost all kinds of insects it is very effectual, suffo- 
cating them by filling up the breathing pores. 
Price, 30c. } 1b.; 1 lb., 50c.; 5 Ibs., $2.25. 
SCALECIDE. The latest and best <pray for San 
Jose scale, cottony maple scale and Pear Psylla. 
It is not poisonous, being simply a mechanical 
preparation of petroleum oil that instantly mixes 
with cold water and is immediately ready to apply; 
1 gallon of “ Scalecide”’ to 20 gallons of water 
sprayed on your trees and bushes will kill every 
scale that it reaches without injury to tree or fruit 
but if applied in late fall, winter or early spring 
while the foliage is off. Safe and easy to apply. 
Price, 1 gallon can, $1.00; 5 gallon can, $3.25; 10 
gallon can, $6.00; 50 gallon barrel, $25.00. 
SLUG SHOT. A non-poisonous powder and a very 
popular insecticide; it requires no further mixing 
or preparation, easily applied and not injurious or 
dangerous to animals, the person applying it, or 
fruits and vegetables treated. Very effectual in 
destroying potato bugs, and beetles, green and 
black fly, slugs, worms, caterpillars, ete. Price, 
per keg of 125 Ibs. net, $7.00; per barrel of 250 Ibs., 
net $13.00; 10 lb. package, 60c.; 5 1b. package, 35c.; 
in tin canister, with perforated top for applying, 
25c. each, by mail, 40c. 
SULPHUR, FLOWERS OF. Price, 10c. per Ib.; 10 
Ibs., 60c.; 25 lbs. and over, at 5c. per Ib. 
SULPHO-TOBACCO SOAP. A positive extermi- 
nator of _all insect life on plants in the green- 
house. Price, 3 oz. box, 10c.; 8 oz. box, 20c.; 
10 1b. box, $3.00. 
TOBACCO DUST, Fine. For green and black aphis, 
fleas, beetles, etc. Splendid fertilizer and preven- 
tive for insects in the ground and around roots. 
Price 10c. per 1b.; 5 Ibs., 30c.; 10 lbs., 50c.; 25 Ib. 
bag, 75c.; 50 lb. bag, $1.25; $2.00 per 100 Ib. bag. 
TOBACCO STEMS. For fumigating greenhouses 
and conservatories for the destruction of green and 
black aphis and other insects. Price, 50 Ib. bale, 
85c.; 100 Ibs., $1.50; per ton, $20.00. 
TREE TANGLEFOOT. No crawling insect can 
pass a band of tree tanglefoot. -AXpply early in the 
spring—before the caterpillars commence to crawl 
—and again in the fall if trowbled with the fall 
Canker worm. One pound for a''six-foot band 
4 inches wide, yy inch thick. Prices, 1 Ib. can, 
30c.; 3 Ib. can, 85c. (If by mail postage on above 
will be 16c. per lb. extra.) The following cannot 
be mailed; 10 lb. can, $2.65; 20 Ib. can, $4.80. 
