14 
SEED-TIME AH© HARVEST. 
Garden Pests. 
BY J. J. ALLEN. 
Every person who attempts to cultivate 
a garden is well aware that he has some¬ 
thing to do to keep what he desires to pro¬ 
duce from being destroyed by some cruel 
bug or worm or something else that appears 
to be waiting for an opportunity to secretly 
creep out from their hiding places to ruin 
the hopes and blast the prospects of the 
honest tiller of the soil. It does appear that 
these pests are far more numerous and de¬ 
structive than now they were some years 
ago. 
It is my purpose in this article to refer to 
some of these pests and give the readers of 
Seed-Time and Harvest some of my ex¬ 
perience in warring with these would-be de¬ 
stroyers in order to reap some good result 
from my labor in tilling a garden. 
the cabbage flea 
is the first that I will name on the list. All 
persons that have attempted to grow early 
cabbage or turnip plants for early use, and 
sowed the seed in some warm sunny place, 
have found that as soon as the plants were 
up they would be covered with little hun¬ 
gry creatures that would soon destroy every 
plant in sight, if left alone in its work of de¬ 
struction. The remedy is this: As soon as 
a plant is seen to break the ground, sift on 
to the plot sown, fine sulphur which can be 
procured at any of the stores. It will not 
injure the tenderest plant and should be put 
on in the morning when the plants are wet 
with dew. A veiy little will drive the ‘ 4 var¬ 
mints” away. You may have to repeat the 
sifting as often as twice or thrice a week 
until the plants get some strength. 
THE CABBAGE WORM 
is one of the worst pests we have, and some 
resort to the slow and disagreeable task of 
picking them from the plant; some sprinkle 
red pepper on them and others black pepper. 
The best way I have found is to get some 
quick growing variety like the Fottler’s 
Drumhead or Jersey Wakefield and set in 
good soil and when the worms put in an 
appearance, take warm water with five ta¬ 
ble spoonfuls of salt and two table-spoonfuls 
of saltpetre to a pailful of water, and when 
all dissolved sprinkle on the plants with the 
hand. This may be done two or three times- 
a week and w T hen the plants are dry. 
POTATO BUGS 
may be picked off or killed with some kind 
of poison. Paris Green in w r ater is as good 
as anything, but care should be exercised 
in its use. 
THE YELLOW CUCUMBER BUGS 
can be destroyed by using saltpetre and wa¬ 
ter, three tablespoonfuls of saltpetre to a 
pail of water, w-etting the ground around 
the hills everjr other night for a short time. 
The bugs go into the ground mostly at night 
and the saltpetre is destructive to the life 
of the creature. The same remedy is also 
good for the maggot that attacks squash 
vines as soon as they are out of the ground y 
by working in the roots. It should be ap¬ 
plied as soon as the plant isout of the ground 
as you cannot see what they are doing until 
the plant turns yellow and shows signs of 
dying. When I plant my cucumbers I al¬ 
ways plant some squash or pumpkin seeds 
around the hill near the cucumber seeds and 
let both grow until the plants become larger 
and the danger from the bugs is past, then 
pull out the squashes and let the cucumbers- 
have the ground. The benefit of this is, the 
squash plant being so much more juicy than 
the cucumber, the bugs will feed upon them, 
and allow the cucumbers to escape. 
THE ONION MAGGOT 
can be prevented by using salt on the land 
before the seed is sown or the sets put out. 
THE POTATO WEEVIL 
that does work in the stalk of the vine is 
showing itself in many parts of the country 
but more especially in the south-western 
states^ The egg is deposited on the stalk* 
and when hatched it bores a hole into the 
centre of the vine making it a hollow tube. 
Sometimes it works down into the root of 
the potato, but it does not injure the tuber 
only by the damage done to the stalk. The 
past season I have seen them nearly an inch 
in length. About the last of August or first 
of September it leaves the stalk in the form 
of a four-winged beetle. The remedy is, fo, 
destroy the vine that has the enemy. 
Depauville, W. Y., Mar. 14, 1884. 
When you have had Catarrh long enough just 
send 10c. to Dr. R. C. Sykes, 181 Monroe St.. Chicago 
for his “True Theory gf yatayrh,”- 
