Don’t Kill the Cops 
I. Mr. Toad is found in your garden, don't 
harm him, but treat him as a friend, a “cop”, 
arresting and executing garden gangsters. 
If your sweet peas or pansies seem sick and 
you find lady bugs on them, don’t jump at 
conclusions. It’s lice or aphis that have in- 
jured your plants, and the lady bugs are there 
trying to exterminate the pests. 
Pester Pestiferous Pests 
First, we must understand that some pests 
will eat poison, on plants or put out as bait, 
while others, known as sucking Insects, can- 
not be poisoned the same way. They must 
be. destroyed by contact poisoning—the dope 
must be sprayed directly on the insect. 
Practically all insect troubles can be con- 
trolled by spraying, with two kinds of dope. 
For poison spray use arsenate of lead, table- 
spoon to gallon of water. For sucking insects 
(lice or aphis) use a contact solution “Black 
Leaf 40,” one teaspoonful to a gallon of water. | 
For grasshoppers take 2 lbs. bran or corn 
meal, mix dry with 1 oz. Paris green or ar- 
senate of lead. Then mix with this 2 table 
spoonfuis of molasses and about 1 pint water 
to which has been added the juice of half a 
lemon. Mix all together and late in the evening 
sow it very thin, making it into flakes almost 
like snow. This will prevent poisoning birds 
or animals. In a day or two you may not see 
any grasshoppers, dead or alive, and will think 
they did not take the bait but moved on. 
Careful search will disclose many dead grass- 
hoppers hidden, for the reason when Mr. Grass- 
hopper gets sick with a pain in his tummy he 
wants to be alone and drags himself off to 
some hidden spot. Cutworms. The same mix- 
ture is also used for cutworm bait. 
Cubor Dust ‘75’, is proving very effective 
against both chewing and sucking insects. 
(See page 13). DDT good for SOME uses. We 
do not offer until know more about it. 
Dangerous. Be careful. 
if Sow Flower Seeds in Fall 
Wait until very late in fall-if seeds not sown 
before Sept. 10th. Now this is the important 
idea, and for the sake of your own success, 
don’t miss it. The idea is to sow the seed so 
late that it will not start to germinate before 
Spring. Keep mulling that over in your head 
and you will at least start right. 
Vital point regarding sowing of ANNUAL 
flower seeds is not to sow early enough in fall 
that they will begin to grow before winter. 
Therefore, have your seeds on hand, and keep 
your eye on the calendar. 
Delphiniums and Columbines do especially 
well if seed Sown real late in fall. Many of the 
Delphiniums will bloom freely next summer. 
This is true of California Poppies, Iceland 
Poppies, Snap Dragons and some other peren- 
nias and biennials. Well worth trying. 
Catch this secret. Sow your flower seeds late 
in fall the usual way in well prepared soil. 
Then protect the bed by spreading straw, hay, 
excelsior torn fine and flaky, corn stalks, or 
any old trash, held in place with poultry wire 
staked down, or brush—anything that will pre- 
vent the winds from blowing away the soil 
and seed. Remove covering early spring. 
Suggest the following kinds as most likely 
to respond to fall sowing: 
Alyssum—Anchusa—Asters—Bachelor But- 
ton—Balsam—Baby’s Breath—Baby Snapdrag- 
on—Calendula—Candytuft—Chinese Forget- 
Me-Not—Cosmos—Everlasting—Four O’clocks 
—Fox Glove—Geum—Gypsophila—Hollyhock— 
Iceland Poppies—Larkspur—Marigold—Orient- 
al Poppy—Pansy—Petunias—Pinks—Rock Gar- 
den Annuals—Rock Garden Perennials—Shasta 
Daisy—Snap Dragons—Statice—Sweet Peas— 
Sweet William — Verbenas — Wild Cucumber, 
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Don’t plant too little and too late. Then leave your garden to its fate. 
