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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
BUG INSURANCE 
You have all heard of and probably carry fire insurance, life in¬ 
surance, accident insurance, or some one or more of the dozens of 
kinds of insurance that are offered. We want to talk to you a little 
while about another kind of insurance which is of the greatest im¬ 
portance to any one living in sections where there are insects that 
eat up the garden crops. Every market gardener and trucker who 
grows vegetables on a large scale has to fight bugs, and this is 
true of many of the vegetables that grow in the home gardens. 
Why not insure your crops and your income from them by the 
use of Bug Death, which is the best all-round insecticide that we 
know of—a preparation that is death to almost every kind of a bug 
that is destructive to vegetable crops. We have known Bug Death 
for many years, have seen it used by others and have used it our¬ 
selves, and from personal experience we know just how good and 
how effective it is and can recommend it to you because of our own 
personal knowledge. It ought to be kept in hand by every gar¬ 
dener who grows either for home use or market, in the South. 
Bug Death Kills the Bugs 
and, at the same time, does not injure the plant or its growth as 
does every insecticide or bug poison that contains arsenic in one 
form or another, as practically all of them do. Paris Green, Lon¬ 
don Purple, Arsenate of Lead and other forms of arsenic will kill 
the bugs, but unless carefully used either kill the plants or else 
“burn” them so that they will not make satisfactory crops. On 
green vegetables, such as cabbage, they are positively dangerous 
to those who eat the vegetables afterwards. Instead of Bug Death 
burning or killing the vegetable plants to which it is applied it 
actually acts in a small degree as a fertilizer. Do you know of any 
other insecticide that this is true of? To the best of our knowl¬ 
edge Bug Death is the only insecticide now’ made that is both ef¬ 
fective on the bugs and at the same time is harmless alike to the 
plants, all animals and human beings. It’s sure death to all leaf- 
eating bugs and it positively will not “burn” the plants like Paris 
Green and other arsenical poisons of that class. The damage to 
tender growth of vegetable plants by the application of Paris 
Green is often almost as bad as that of the bugs. Now that Bug 
Death is obtainable, you don’t have to use a poison to kill the bugs, 
for, strange as it may seem— 
Bug Death Is Not Poison 
to human beings and animals, but it is sure death to LEAF-EAT¬ 
ING bugs of all kinds, the bugs that eat the potato plants and beans 
and all the other bugs that make life a burden for the gardener 
i who grow r s vegetables in bug-infested localities. You need not be 
afraid to leave Bug Death around. We doubt if it would hurt you 
any if you ate some of it yourself, although we would not advise 
your trying a mess of it for breakfast. It is a fact, however, that 
you can dust it on cabbage one day and eat that cabbage the next 
with no bad effects. It is most effective on bugs, and that’s what 
you want to kill, and at the same time you need have no fear in 
keeping it around the place, for it won’t hurt the children or your 
live stock if they should happen to get into it by accident or 
through ignorance. Many a child and animal has been poisoned 
by getting into Paris Green left around or else eating the plants. 
That kind of an accident can’t happen with Bug Death around, for 
it won’t hurt them if they do get into it. 
While Bug Death is the best insecticide w T e know’ of to destroy all 
the varieties of insects that chew or eat the leaves or stems of 
plants, it is not recommended for use against insects WHICH 
SUCK THE SAP, as this is an entirely different class and requires 
a different insecticide. However, the leaf-eating insects are much 
more numerous and destructive and are the ones which do the most 
damage. 
Don't Wait Until The Bugs 
have eaten up half your crop before you begin to think about a 
remedy. You can be reasonably sure that Mr. and Mrs. Bug are 
going to come around and try to raise several Bug families in your 
patch. The right way, the safe way, is to keep Bug Death around 
the house and at the first sign of Mr. Bug’s appearance in your 
crops either dust or spray the plants with Bug Death and Mr. and 
Mrs. Bug will shortly be in a condition that w ill make the raising 
of “Bug” families impossible in your neighborhood. It will be a 
bug funeral instead of a large increase in the family, and in the 
meantime your crops are going on to maturity uninjured. You 
may think it strange that w T e say “dusted or sprayed” on the plants. 
That’s exactly correct and one method is as good as the other. If 
you have a powder gun or shaker you can dust the fine powder 
on the plants W’hen they are wet with rain or dew and it will stick i 
so tight that it will take the hardest kind of rain to wash any of it 
off. If you have a sprayer, and are working on a large scale, dis¬ 
solve about 12 to 15 pounds of Bug Death in 12 quarts of clean water 
and spray it on. This much will go over an acre of vegetables and 
the bugs will quit eating the leaves of your plants in a hurry. 
In some parts of the country vegetable crops are troubled with 
fungus diseases as well as bugs. In such cases Bug Death can be 
mixed with “Bordeaux Mixture” and sprayed on together. Full 
directions go with each package of Bug Death for its use. If you 
have no duster or sprayer you can easily dust the plants by placing 
some Bug Death in cheese cloth or other thin cloth. Bug Death is 
such a very fine powder that it can very easily be shaken through 
thin cloth onto the plants. It’s just the sort of insecticide you need 
I —safe, easily applied and a sure Bug Killer. 
PREPAID PRICES On Bug Death by PARCEL POST 
(These Prices Named Below Include Price of BUG DEATH and Postage) 
1st and 2d 
3d 
4th 
5th 
6th 
7th 
8th 
Zones 
Zone 
Zone 
Zone 
Zone 
Zone 
Zone 
1 pound package .... 
... $ .21 
$ .23 
$ .26 
$ .29 
$ .32 
$ .36 
$ .39 
3 pound package .... 
... .43 
.47 
.54 
.61 
.68 
.76 
.83 
5 pound package .... 
... .60 
.66 
.77 
.88 
.99 
1.11 
1.22 
12 1-2 pound package . . 
. . . 1.19 
1.34 
1.63 
1.93 
2.21 
2.51 
2.80 
Your Postmaster or Rural Delivery Carrier 
can advise you the zone 
you are 
in from Atlanta. 
100-POU ND KEG BUG DEATH BY EXPRESS OR FREIGHT, NOT PREPAID, $7.50. 
We suggest that as a trial you order one of the smaller size packages by mail, and if you find it satisfactory for 
your purpose that you then order it in sufficient quantity to have it come by freight, and thereby secure a low trans¬ 
portation charge. You would then have it on hand for use at any time. 
