L. L. MAY & CO. 
ST. PAUL, MINN. 
DANGERS 
Bugs and insects are waiting for your garden just as 
much as you are, so, if they are not to get it first, it behooves 
you to watch for them, and not give them a chance. The first 
bug to come £;h)ng is the cut worm. He lives just under the 
ground around the plant and is about an inch long, fat and 
grayish, Paris green, a very dangerous poison, will put an 
end to him, if mixed with some bran and placed about the plant. 
Tiny crreen insects, called "aphis," may attack your sweet 
peas. Tobacco dust is good for these. The tomato worm and 
cabbage worm, to say nothing of the potato-bug, are ready to 
gorge themselves at your expense, and if you find any eggs on 
the leaves of your plants, crush them, for they will become 
more worms in their turn. 
Spray your bean vines, cucumber 
and melon vines with "pyrox" to prevent blight, and above all, 
coax the birds into your garden by placing a little bathtub for 
them, for they will eat up more of the nasty bugs than you 
can kill with all your ingenuity. 
HARVESTING THE CROP. 
The first of your crops to be harvested will be the rad- 
ishes, which will be ready, in, from three to six weeks from 
the time of sowing. Gather them while they are crisp and 
tender, and when one crop is gone, prepare the ground for 
another, so that you won't waste any space, and will have 
radishes all summer. 
Lettuce will be the next to mature. If 
you want head lettuce, you must transplant the small plants, 
or else thin them to about twelve inches apart. As the heads 
grow, tie up the outside leaves, and you will have beautiful, 
pale yellow heads of tender hearts, that will make your mouth 
water. 
After the lettuce, will come the peas and beans, and 
the long, green cucumbers that may sell for ten cents apiece. 
By the last of July, or the first of August, the corn will be 
ripening, then the water melons, and the muskmelons in Sep- 
