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lished it will take several applications to get rid of 

 them. Use kerosene or soap emulsion, or tobacco 

 dust. There are also several trade-marked prepara- 

 tions that are good. Aphine, which may be had of 

 any seed house, has proved very effective in my own 

 work, and it is the pleasantest to use that I have so 

 far found. 



Asparagus-beetle : — This pest will give little trou- 

 ble on cleanly cultivated patches. Thorough work 

 with arsenate of lead (i to 25) will take care of it. 



Black-rot: — This affects the cabbage group, pre- 

 venting heading, by falling of the leaves. In clean, 

 thoroughly limed soil, with proper rotations, it is 

 not likely to appear. The seed may be soaked, in 

 cases where the disease has appeared previously, for 

 fifteeen minutes in a pint of water in which one of 

 the corrosive sublimate tablets which are sold at 

 drug stores is dissolved. 



Borers: — This borer is a flattish, white grub, 

 which penetrates the main stem of squash or other 

 vines near the ground and seems to sap the strength 

 of the plant, even when the vines have attained a 

 length of ten feet or more. His presence is first 

 made evident by the wilting of the leaves during 

 the noonday heat. Coal ashes mixed with the ma- 

 nure in the hill, is claimed to be a preventative. An- 

 other is to plant some early squash between the 

 hills prepared for the winter crop, and not to plant 



