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borer) chewing insects, and sucking insects. No amount 
of spraying will “get” cutworms and borers — they must 
be gotten bodily and destroyed. All leaf-chewing in- 
sects may be poisoned by arsenic sprays. All sucking in- 
sects may be destroyed by either nicotine sprays or by 
oily sprays which either choke them or smother their 
bodies. It is thoroughly practical to spray for both eat- 
ing and sucking insects at the same time by combining the 
arsenic with the nicotine remedies. But it is rather 
wasteful, because the nicotine spray must come in direct 
contact with the bodies of the bugs, whereas the stomach 
poison need only hit the foliage in a broad way. 
Sound rules for the application of all sprays come with 
all the standard preparations, while stringent laws see to 
it that the gardener gets just what he buys for the purpose 
of fighting the battles in the garden. 
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