GARDEN PESTS 



Dissolve the soap by boiling in the water; 

 add the acid and churn to an emulsion. 

 Reduce i pint of this stock with 15 quarts 

 of water for use at roots of tender plants. 

 Reduce i pint of stock with 8 quarts of water 

 for cabbage and all hardy plants. 



Poison bait 



For cutworms, wireworms, grasshoppers, locusts 

 and all those insects which travel along the 

 ground. 



Dip small bunches of fresh green succulent 

 vegetation, such as clover, in number la, and place 

 them about where the insects are or are expected. 

 Lay a board or stones over the bait to keep it from 

 drying out and renew every three to five days. Slices 

 of potato or apple may be used instead of clover. 



A bran mash composed of i pound of white 

 arsenic, 2 pounds of brown sugar and 8 pounds of 

 bran, mixed thoroughly together and then moisten- 

 ed with enough water to make it wet but not sloppy, 

 is very effectively used against cutworms and wire- 

 worms. Put it at evening in rows of corn or where- 

 ever they are numerous, but do not let it come next 

 to the plants as it will burn them. A teaspoonful 

 at the base of a plant in the small garden is suffi- 

 cient, just far enough from the stem or leaves to 

 assure its not touching them. 



The Vermorel nozzle is recommended for general 

 use. For spraying with number 5 it is advisable to use 



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