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DALMATION INSECT POWDER. Good 

 for Roaches, Moths, Ants, etc. Price 15 

 and. 25 cents per package. 



PARTUS GREEN— Mixed at the rate 

 of one pound to two hundred 

 gallons of water, it will prove effective 

 against all chewing insects. Per 1-pound 

 35y 2 c. ; pound 20c; 1-4 pound 15c. This 

 article is liable to fluctuate in price. 





JAPANESE SOLUBDEi INSECTICIDE. 

 This is the safest, surest and best insecti- 

 cide ever brought before the public. It 

 is sure remedy for Cabbage worms, Tur • 

 nip and Beet fleas, Rose lice, green fly, 

 scale, mealy bug, red spider, aphids, etc. 

 For green house, conservatory, garden 

 and field use it has no equal, and is sure 

 deaths to insects. Sold only in 1 pound 

 packages at 25c. By mail 15 cents extra. 

 Pull directions on every box. We are 

 the sole agents for the United States. 



HAMMOND'S SLUG SHOT. An excel- 

 lent article for destroying cabbage fleas, 

 green lice, turnip and beet fly, potato bug, 

 grub worm, etc. It is ready for use and 

 only requires to be dusted on to the 

 plants while they are wet with the dew 

 in the morning, or when applied in the 

 evening plants should be watered over 

 the leaves half an hour before the Slug 

 Shot is applied. Five pound packages, 

 40 cents; in bulk, $7 per 100 pounds. Have 

 Dusters for distributing tne above pow- 

 der. Price, 1 gallon size, 60 cents; V2 gallon 

 size, 50 cents 



WHAL.E OIL. ISOAP. Very effective for 

 washing trees and destroying all insects 

 on the bark; it is also an exterminator of 

 insects and lice on plants and shrubbery. 

 Mix at the rate of one pound soap to two 

 cuarts of hot water, and then add five 

 gallons of cold water; apply wltn water- 



ing pot or syringe; used in this manner 

 it will promptly rid cabbage or any other 

 vegetable plants, also rose bushes aad 

 all sorts of fruit trees of the aphides and 

 other insects which so often injure them 

 Trice, 1 pound boxes, 20c. In bulk 15 cents 

 per pound. If sent by mail 3 cents per 

 pound postage must be added. 



FORMULA TO PRElVElNT SCAB, BEE- 

 TLES AND BLIGHT ON 

 POTATOES. 



Potatoe— Beotles, Scab, Blight.— First 

 Application— For Scab, soak seed in corro- 

 sive sublimate solution 2 oz. in 16 gallons 

 of water for 90 minutes. Second Applica- 

 tion—When beetles or the larvae ap- 

 pear, Paris green 1 pound to 200 gallons 

 of water. Third Application^-Pepeat when- 

 ever necessary. Fourth Application— 

 When blight of the leaves is accompanied 

 by rot of the tubers, Bordeaux. Fifth 

 Application — Repeat if necessary. 



1 he Following Mixtures Have Been 

 Found to Be "Very Effective in De- 

 stroying all Parasites and In- 

 sects on Fruit Trees. 



KEROSENE EMULSION— This solution 

 is used with great success in killing all 

 sucking insects, such as scales, plant lice, 

 and above all the destructive leterya or 

 Cottony Cushion Bug, on orange ana oth- 

 er fruit trees. 



The following formula will be found ono 

 of the best: 



Dissolve half a pound of Whale Oil 

 i."oap in half a gallon of boiling water, 

 then add one gallon of Kerosene Oil, 

 CMurh the mixture with a force pump till 

 it forms a cream which thickens upon 

 cooling. For scale insects dilute one part 

 of the emulsion with 9 parts of water. 

 This mixture can be very easily made by 

 any person using the above ingredients. 



ARSENICAL MIXTURE- TWO pounds 

 of White Arsenic, two pounds of washing 

 Soda, two galums of water; mix and boil 

 cown to one gallon. Slake two pounds of 

 Quicklime in sufficient of water, strain 

 and add enough water to make the whole 

 41 gallons. Now add one pint of the Ar- 

 senical Mixture to tne 40 gallons of lime 

 ■water, mix thoroughly, and use as a 

 spray. This is the most effective Insecti- 

 cide known. 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE^-Dissolve six 

 pounds of powdered 'Sulphate of Copper 

 in 4 gallons of boiling water. Slake 4 

 pounds of fresh Lime in 4 gallons of cold 

 water, mix both solutions slowly and 

 thoroughly and strain them through a 

 fine sieve. Before using dilute to 22 gal- 

 lons with water. 



CARBONATE OF COPPER MIXTURE 

 — Uissolve 3 ounces of Copper Carbonate 

 in 1 quart of liquid ammonia and dilute 

 to 22 gallons. 



GOOD'S CAUSTIC WHALE OIL SOAP— 

 Per barrel lots (about 450 pounds) TV2C per lb. 

 Less quantity, $1 25 per gallon, 



Empty Cans for Same— 1 gallon 30c each; 2 

 gallons 40c each ; 3 gallons 51c each ; 5 gallons 

 75c each 



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