July, 1917 
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ous injury. Care should be taken 
to keep poultry and other live 
stock away from it. 
To make up the bran mash mix 
2 ounces of white arsenic or Paris 
green with 3 pounds of bran. Dis- 
solve 1 ounce of salt and 2 ounces 
of cheap syrup in a little water. 
Then mix all together adding 
enough water to make a crumbly 
mash. The mash may either be 
broadcasted or placed about the 
bases of the plants. 
SPRAYING WILL NOT KILL THESE 
Worms that bore inside of the 
vines and stems of plants cannot be 
controlled by sprays. In the case 
of the stalk borer on potato and 
tomato plants, infested parts 
should be cut off and destroyed as 
soon as noticed. In case of the 
squash vine borer, the worm may 
be killed by slitting the vine with a 
sharp knife. 
CAUTIONS 
1. Arsenate of lead, Paris green 
and poison bran mash are deadly 
poisons. Keep children and ani- 
mals away from them. 
2. Do not spray cabbage with 
arsenate of lead after the heads 
are made in the fall ; beans after 
the pods have formed; or toma- 
toes after the fruit is nearly full 
grown. 
3. Always use the right kind of 
spray for the right kind of in- 
sect. 
For maggots on onions, radish, 
and turnips there is no satisfac- 
tory control except to destroy the 
infested plants. These whitish 
maggots will often work in the 
roots of plants, tunneling through 
them and causing the plants to 
wilt or become dwarfed. Cab- 
bage maggots may be prevented 
from getting on the plants by 
aeing tarred felt discs about the 
bases of the plants at the surface 
of the ground as they are being 
set out. 
Squash bugs are resistant to 
spray. If pieces of board or bur- 
lap are placed near the plants the 
bugs will collect under them and 
may be gathered and destroyed 
early in the morning. 
Liquid sprays may be applied 
with a small hand sprayer which 
can be bought at a small cost. 
Dust sprays may be dusted 
through a cloth sack or applied 
with a dust gun. 
As soon as the crops are harv- 
ested all refuse matter, old vines 
and stumps should be gathered 
and destroyed by burning. If 
left in the garden, they will give 
food to the insects and will be a 
shelter for the winter. 
For further or more detailed in- 
formation write the Department 
of Economic Entomology, College 
of Agriculture, Madison. 
Canning Greens. 
Blanchard Harper. 
Pick over and wash carefully 
any greens such as Swiss chard, 
spinach, lambs quarters, dande- 
lion greens, horseradish greens or 
any other greens. 
After washing carefully lay 
them in a piece of cheese-cloth 
and set them in a steamer or a 
kettle in which there is only a 
little water in the bottom. 
Steam them until they wilt. Now 
immerse the bundle as quickly as 
possible in very cold water and 
remove immediately. Do not let 
it drain very long. Open the 
package and pack the greens 
tightly in glass jars and fill with 
hot water and put in a teaspoon- 
ful of salt for every quart. Now 
sterilize the jars in hot water for 
90 minutes as given in former 
recipes. As soon as the boiling 
of the water is checked immedi- 
ately seal tightly, then wrap in 
brown paper before storing. The 
rapid changes from hot to cold 
and to hot water materially arrest 
the growth of the bacteria. The 
States Relations Service recipe 
suggests the addition of olive oil 
and a little dried beef for flavor- 
ing, but my experience makes me 
prefer to omit them. 
Save All the Peas. 
As the green peas get too ripe 
for the best eating do not leave 
them on the vines to rot or to 
feed the pigs and chickens. Do 
one of the three following : 
Pick the peas and shell them 
and dry them according to the old 
process of drying, in the sun or 
some of the quicker methods rec- 
ommended in the Farmer’s Bul- 
letin, 841 U. S. Dept, of Agricul- 
ture — “Drying Fruits and Vege- 
tables in the Home” with recipes 
for cooking — to use for seed,, 
soups or baked peas (cook like 
navy beans.) Thoroughly rip- 
ened peas dry easily in the sun ; 
green peas dry well if dried as 
advised for cbm as dried on the 
Turvill Farm by Mrs. E. T. Wood 
and cooked very similarly when 
wanted. Save every pea to use 
it so that some more portable food 
will be available for our armies 
and our allies. 
B. H. 
Fungus diseases — Use Bor- 
deaux mixture both to prevent in- 
fection and spread of disease. 
Queen-oFthe-Market asters are 
best for pot plants. They are al- 
so among the earliest for outside 
planting. 
