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Scale Insects. Scale insects are killing many of 
our trees and shrubs. As a preventative it is well to spray 
in winter with a “scale-cide” or something prepared espe¬ 
cially for scale pests. Kerosene Emulsion, one part stock 
solution to ten parts water may help some. Spraying may 
be done any warm day in winter. Two or three applications 
are better than one. For the ordinary home garden the mix¬ 
tures here given will be found easy to make or obtain, 
and inexpensive to apply. A little care will bring big 
results. Never allow plants to become weakened by 
insect attacks as they are then likely to be attacked by 
disease germs. Keep them growing and the soil tilled. 
Encourage the enemies of insects as the birds and toads. 
Birds eat millions of destructive insects and a single gar¬ 
den toad has been proved to eat in one season destructive 
worms and bugs, that if left, would destroy over nineteen 
dollars worth of produce. (See Nature Leaflet, No. 28, 
State Board of Agriculture, Boston, Mass. Free.) 
DAMPING OFF FUNGUS. 
This often causes small seedling plants and cuttings 
to disappear, sometimes in a single night. A simple 
remedy usually effective is to sift clean dry sand (baked 
or sterilized sand is best) over the young plants and 
withhold water until they become rather dry. A high 
temperature and a damp soil favor damping off fungus. 
Potato Scab. 
Suspend the potatoes in sacks, in 30 gallons of 
water, to which 1 pint of Formaldehyde has been added. 
Potatoes should be sprayed 6 times with Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture. Paris Green should be added to kill the beetles 
when necessary. Use 4 lbs. lime, 4 lbs. blue stone (copper 
sulphate) and 1 lb. Paris Green to 50 gallons of water. 
Shake the lime in 5 gals, of water and dissolve the copper 
sulphate in 5 gals, of water by suspending it in a sack. 
Pour these into 40 gals, of water. Never pour the stock 
solutions together before adding water. Never use iron 
