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ers” frequently come in swarms and strip 
everything clean. They prefer roses or 
grape vines, but destroy many other things 
as well. For a few vines or plants, hand¬ 
picking will serve. Arsenate of lead is the 
most effective spray. 
Squash-Bug. Anyone who has ever at¬ 
tempted to grow squash or pumpkins is 
familiar with the large, flat, black “stink- 
bug,” so destructive of all running vines. 
Protection with frames and hand-picking 
are the best garden remedies. Trap-vines 
of early squash, as used for the borer, are 
used, or the old bugs, before the hatching 
season, may be trapped under old boards. 
The small, newly hatched bugs, or sap¬ 
sucking “nymphs,” are the ones that do the 
damage. Tobacco dust or kerosene emul¬ 
sion. heavily applied, will kill them. 
Tomato-Worm. This is a large green¬ 
horned caterpillar, very piggish and some¬ 
what irritable. Pland-picking, or destroy¬ 
ing the beautiful night-flying moth which 
lays the eggs, is the only way to combat it. 
White-Fly. This troublesome indoor 
pest fortunately does not molest us much 
in the open, but occasionally injures flow¬ 
ering plants and tomato and running vines. 
The young flies, which do the damage, are 
scale-like insects, found only on the under 
side of the leaves. Spray thoroughly with 
kerosene emulsion or whale-oil soap. 
White Grub. The white grub, or 
muck-worm, is the larva of the common 
June-bug. It chews the roots of grasses 
and plants. When lawns are infested, the 
sod must be taken up, the grubs destroyed 
and new sod made. When the roots of 
single plants are attacked, dig out, destroy 
the grub and reset the plants if not too seri¬ 
ously injured. 
The various remedies mentioned above 
may all be readily prepared at home, as 
follows: 
MECHANICAL REMEDIES 
1. Covered protecting-boxes are made 
of half-inch stuff, about eight inches high 
and eighteen to twenty-four inches square. 
They are covered with mosquito netting, 
wire or “protecting-cloth" — the latter hav¬ 
ing the extra advantage of holding warmth 
over night. 
2. Collars are made of old cans with the 
bottoms removed, cardboard or tarred 
paper, large enough to go over the plant 
and an inch or so into the ground. 
3. Cards are cut and fitted close around 
the stem and for an inch or so upon the 
ground around it, to prevent maggots 
going down the stem to the root. Not 
much used. 
destructive remedies 
4. Hand-picking is usually very effect¬ 
ive, and if performed as follows, not very 
disagreeable: Fasten a small tin can se¬ 
curely to a wooden handle and fill one- 
third full of water and kerosene; make a 
small wooden paddle, with one straight 
edge and a rather sharp point; by using 
this in the right hand and the pan in the 
left, the bugs may be quickly knocked off. 
Be sure to destroy all eggs when hand¬ 
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