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OME-MIX YOUR FERTILIZER! 
Better Fertilizer Save 30% No Useless Filler 
If you can mix cement you can mix i>rtili^cr. and if anyone tells you you cannot 
Home-Mix, the profit on his “ Braud ” is more important to him than the truth. 
W COMPARE PRICES 
POUNDS OF MATERIALS Required to Make Approximate Mix tures 
ANALYSIS 
COST PER TON OF 
PLANT FOOD 
Formula 
Per cent 
Nitrate 
of 
Soda 
Animal 
7-IS 
Tankage 
Acid 
Phos¬ 
phate 
14% 
Available 
Potash 
Muriate 
Unneces¬ 
sary 
Filler j 
Prices 
F.O.B. 
New York 
or 
Boston 
Prices 
F.O.B. 
Baltimore 
Ammonia 
Phos¬ 
phoric 
Acid 
Potash 
A 
10 
5 
I 
1450 
200 
350 
$13.16 
$12.08 
K 
1 
8 
5 
50 
150 
1100 
200 
500 
14.18 
13 98 
C 
2 
s 
5 
100 
300 
1000 
200 
400 
18.00 
17.25 
D 
3 
8 
5 
200 
300 
1000 
200 
200 
20.55 
• 19.80 
E 
2 
8 
10 
100 
300 
1000 
400 
200 
22.10 
21.35 
F 
3 
8 
10 
200 
300 
1000 
400 
100 
24.65 
23.90 
G 
3 
6 
10 
200 
300 
700 
400 
400 
22.78 
22.25 
H 
4 
6 
10 
300 
300 
700 
400 
300 
25.33 
24.80 
I 
4 
7 
8 
300 
300 
850 
350 
200 
25.24 
24.60 
J 
5 
7 
5 
300 
600 
700 
200 
200 
26.33 
25.80 
K 
7 
5 
7 
500 
700 
300 
300 
200 
32.60 
32.45 
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The above formulas are computed on the basis of division ot even weight bags to eliminate 
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WHITE PLAINS NEW YORK 
Some Common Garden Pests. 
Every year we have several “bugs” 
show up in the garden with about the 
same regularity as the Fourth of July 
(and incidentally about the same time), 
and each time they do appear, we are 
sure to have occasion later on to regret 
their appearance. 
Wireworms. —For some years now it 
seems as though wireworms were more 
than usually abundant. They are, as 
are also white grubs, strictly an under¬ 
ground pest. There are several species 
of them, but unfortunately for us, the 
most common are those which attack our 
crops. The insect’s common name is 
quite appropriate, as it has a distinct 
wirelike appearance and feel. It is from 
one-half to an inch long, hard, smooth, 
shiny, and yellowish in color. The par¬ 
ent is the so-called “click beetle” or 
“snap bug.” that little fellow which 
jumps up iu the air with a distinct click 
when you turn him over onto his back. 
From two to three years are required 
for full growth from the egg to the ma¬ 
ture insect, and most of this time is spent 
underground. Potatoes seem to suffer 
more from the attacks of wireworms than 
other crops. Possibly this is because po¬ 
tatoes are more generally grown than 
other vegetables and the injury is there¬ 
fore more noticeable. However that may 
be, such vegetables as turnips, carrots, 
beets, onions and lettuce are also sub¬ 
ject to attack. The worms usually eat 
the smaller tubers, frequently boring 
holes through the underground part of 
the stalk. 
Many remedies have been suggested, 
but none has been found to be entirely 
satisfactory. The fact that they ordin¬ 
arily breed in sod ground suggests a 
remedy, or rather a preventive, in ro¬ 
tation of crops. It has been found that 
wireworms do uot attack clover and re¬ 
lated plants. Therefore they may be 
starved out by planting clover on ground 
that has been infested heretofore. Vege¬ 
tables can follow clover with compara¬ 
tively little danger of attack. Fields 
which have been in grass for a time and 
are plowed and planted to some vegetable 
are especially apt to be troubled with 
wireworms. Fall plowing is also of some 
value. By this means the over-Winter- 
ing adults and “pupae,” or immature in¬ 
sects. are exposed to the action of the 
weather and the attacks of birds. It is 
always a good scheme to allow chickens 
to follow along after the plow, as they 
will pick up quantities of insects such 
as white grubs, wireworms, and cut¬ 
worms. Because of the hardness of their 
skins, the worms cannot be killed by in¬ 
secticides. Any application strong 
enough to penetrate through them would 
also kill the plants and render the 
ground unfit for use for some time to 
come. 
Cabbage Worms. —The cabbage worm 
has always been and still is one of the 
worst posts of cabbages. There are few 
gardeners who have not had some ex¬ 
perience with it. The worm itself is 
velvety green in color with a faint white 
line down its back, and about an inch 
and a quarter long when full grown. 
Hatching early iu the Spring, it attacks 
the young cabbage plants, eating the 
outer leaves. As the head of the cab¬ 
bage forms, it is also attacked, the worms 
hiding in it and disfiguring it with their 
excrement. Their parent is the familiar 
cabbage butterfly, white with two black 
spots on its wing. It may be seen hov¬ 
ering about from early Spring to late 
Fall. Soon after they appear the adult 
butterflies mate and the females lay their 
eggs, generally, on the undersides of the 
leaves; these’eggs hatch within a few 
days and so the process goes on. Since 
there may be several broods or genera¬ 
tions per season, depending on the lo¬ 
cality, it is easy to see why they are 
such a pest. It is quite possible to get 
rid of them by the use of a poison such 
ns Paris greeu or lead arsenate, to which 
a “sticker” has been added. A sticker 
is necessary because of the waxy surface 
of the cabbage leaf, to which the ordin¬ 
ary spray will uot adhere. A pound of 
resin dissolved in 50 gallons of spray 
material will make it stick. The poison 
should be applied as soon as the worms 
appear, and as often afterward as ap¬ 
pears necessary. But the careful man 
will say he doesn’t want to put on poison 
a few days before he expects to eat that 
March 21, 
cabbage. He would rather take what the 
worms leave. If it is necessary to put 
on poison a short time before the cab¬ 
bage is to be used, try hellebore. That 
will lose its poisonous qualities after 
a few days’ exposure to the air, and there 
will then be no danger from it. Poisoned 
bran mash, as is used for cutworms, may 
also be used to advantage for the cab¬ 
bage worm. Small quantities may be 
made by mixing a quart of ordinary bran 
with a teaspoonful of Paris green, and 
moistening it with half a cup of water 
to which has been added a tablespoonful 
of molasses. The poisoned bran should 
then be scattered over the affected plants. 
Cucumber Beetles. —Early in the 
season cucumber, squash and melon 
plants are often attacked by black and 
yellow striped beetles, known as the 
striped cucumber beetles or “melon 
bugs.” Although the roots are damaged 
to some extent by the “larvae” or grubs, 
slender white worm-like creatures, the 
greatest damage is done by the bugs 
themselves. They devour the tender 
plants almost before they are well start¬ 
ed. The older plants also suffer from 
their attacks, the beetles eating the 
leaves and gnawing the rind of the stem 
and fruit. They are also said to carry 
a harmful bacterial disease, known as 
the “curcubit wilt.” The beetles usual¬ 
ly appear early in April or May, feeding 
on all kinds of vegetation until the 
squashes and melons are set out. when 
they injure them in the manner already 
described. Eggs are laid on the leaves 
and in the ground, just under the surface. 
The grubs hatch and spend that period 
of their existence in the stems and under 
the surface of the ground. When the nights 
begin to get cool, the beetles have a habit 
of collecting under the stems and wilted 
leaves wherever they can be sheltered, 
sometimes as many as 50 under a single 
plant. They spend the Winter hidden 
away under leaves and any kind of rub¬ 
bish. 
.Another beetle similar in many re¬ 
spects to the striped cucumber beetle is 
the twelve-spotted cucumber beetle, so 
called because of the 12 black spots on 
its back. It injures the plants in the 
same way, and although commonly found 
associated with the ordinary cucumber 
beetle, is generally less abundant. Both 
of these bugs are handled in the same 
way. Coverings are often used on young 
plants to protect them from injury. A 
barrel hoop is cut in half and the two 
pieces fastened together at right angles 
to each other with the ends stuck in the 
ground, forming an arch each way over 
the plant. The frame thus made is cov¬ 
ered with cloth or wire, preventing the 
bugs from getting at the plants. An¬ 
other way is to plant an excess of seed, 
so that when the bugs get what they 
want there will still be a little left for 
the owner. But that is not a way that 
will appeal to the man who has any 
respect for himself. Spraying with ar¬ 
senate of lead at the rate of four or five 
pounds to 50 gallons of water gives con¬ 
siderable protection, but it will not get 
all the beetles; some will hunt out places 
not covered by the poison, such as under 
leaves or inside the flowers. Repellants 
have often been advised, but when the 
beetles are at all numerous they are of 
little avail. The best of these is dry or 
air-slaked lime mixed with flowers of 
sulphur and dusted ou the plants. The 
planting of early beans or squashes will 
help, as traps. But one of the best ways 
is to destroy all old vines, dead leaves, 
and anything else that will serve as a 
hiding place for the bugs during the Win¬ 
ter. This will help to be rid of them dur¬ 
ing the following season. 
New Hampshire. c. H. iiadley, jr. 
Oat Hay. 
We planted only corn last season, and 
we have no hay. Would it be wise to 
plant oats for an early cutting, or is 
there some other method by which we 
can get early hay? We have about a 
ton of chicken manure. Would it be best 
to put it on cabbage or ou pickles? 
M. B. 
We should sow oats and Canada field 
peas, as we have so often described, to 
cut for hay. Plow the peas under and 
harrow in the oats. The chicken manure 
is well suited to fertilize the pickles. 
“Everybody has some secret sorrow,” 
says a philosophising friend. “Even the 
fattest and jolliest of us has a skeleton 
in his midst.”—Credit Lost. 
