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Japanese Soluble Insecticide. This is the 

 safest, surest and best insecticide ever brought 

 before the public. It is a sure remedy for Cabbage 

 worms, Turnip and Beet fleas. Rose lice, green 

 fly, scale, mealy bug, red spider, aphids, etc. I^c: 

 green house conservatory, garden and field use it 

 has no equal, and is sure death to all insects. 

 Sold only in i pound packages at 25c. By mail 

 15 cents extra. Full directions on every box. We 

 are the sole agents for the United States. 



Hammond's Slug Shot. An excellent arti- 

 cle for destroying cabbage fleas, green lice, tur- 

 nip and beet ifly, potato bug, grub worms, 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, 30 cents; in bulk I5 per 100 pounds. 

 Have Dusters for disiributing the above powder. 

 Price, 1 gallon size, 50c.; % gallon size 40c. 



Whale Oil Soap. 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 i pound soap 

 to two quarts of hot water, and then add five 

 gallons of cold water; apply with watering pot or 

 syringe; used in this manner it will promptl}' 

 rid cabbage or any other vegetable plants, also 

 rosebushes and all sorts of fruit trees of the aphides and other insects which so often 

 injure them. Price, i pound boxes, 20c. In bulk 15 cents per pound. 



I^ion Brand Powdered Hellebore. For destroying insects on currant bushes. 

 vines, plants, shrubs, etc. Price, 15 and 25 cents per package. 



FORMULA TO PREVENT SCAB, BEETLES AND BLIGHT ON POTATOES. 



Potato — Beetles, Scab, Blight.— First Application — For Scab, soak seed in corrosive 

 sublimate solution 2 oz. in 16 gallons of water for 90 minutes. 



Second Application —When beetles or their larvas appear, Paris green i pound to 200 

 gallons of water. 



Third Application — Repeat whenever necessary. 



Fourth Application — When blight of the leaves is accompanied by rot of the tubers, 

 Bordeaux. 



Fifth Application — Repeat if necessary. 



27?6 foUoicing Mixtures have been Found to he very Effective in Destroying all Parasites 



and Insects 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 Icterya or Cottony 

 Cushion Bug, on orange and other fruit trees 



The following formula will be found one of the best: 



Dissolve half pound of Whale Oil Soap in half gallon of boiling water, then add one 

 gallon of Kerosene Oil, churn 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 nine parts 

 of water, and for all other insects, i part of the emulsion with 15 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 gallons of water; mix and boil down to one gallon. Slake two pounds of Quick- 

 lime in sufficient of water, strain and add enough of water to make the whole 40 gallons. 

 Now add one pint of the Arsenical Mixture to the 40 gallons of lime water, mix thoroughly 

 and use as a spray. This is the most effective Insecticide known. 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE— Dissolve 6 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 gallons with water. 



CARBONATE OF COPPER MIXTURE— Dissolve 3 ounces of Copper Carbonate in i 

 quart of liquid Ammonia and dilute to 22 gallons. 



Our Carolina Seed Rice has given the best results the past season. 



