CONTROL MEASURES FOR SOME 
COMMON PESTS 
5% DDT for These Garden Insects: 
Cutworms—Dust soil areas around plants with either 5% DDT 
or 5% Toxaphene dust. 
Cucumber Beetle—Dust as soon as plants are up. Repeat often. 
Cabbage Worm—Apply as soon as worms hatch. Repeat as 
needed. 
Cabbage and Radish Maggot—Dust plants and surrounding soil 
at frequent intervals when the plants are small. 
Flea Beetle—Dust plants as soon as insects are noted. 
Gladiolus Thrips—Dust corms when placed in storage. Dust 
plants at ten-day intervals beginning soon after plants are up. 
Dormant Spray—Scale Insects and Plant Lice 
Spray woody plants just before the buds open. Use 1 pint 
of liquid lime sulfur in 1 gallon of water. 
Slugs 
Trap under boards, or, poison with prepared bait containing 
metaldehyde such as “Snarol.” 
Grasshoppers 
Dust all foliage in infested area lightly with 5% Chlordane 
or Toxaphene dust. Will be most effective if applied when the 
grasshoppers are small. 
Red Spider 
Spray with wettable sulfur (2 tablespoons in 1 gallon of 
water), or apply dusting sulfur with a duster. 
Potato Pests 
To control beetles and leafhoppers apply frequent applica- 
tions of 5% DDT dust or a spray using 50% wettable DDT 
powder as directed by manufacturer. For blight control add 
fixed-copper dust or spray material to the above as directed 
by manufacturer. Several preparations can be obtained in 
which DDT and copper are already combined. 
Tomato Leaf Spot and Blight 
Use fixed-copper dust or spray as recommended by manu- 
facturer. Begin applications early. 
Gladiolus Scab 
Soak corms 3 to 6 hours in solution of 1 tsp. Lysol in 1 
quart of water. Plant while wet. Or, soak 5 minutes in 
calomel, 1 ounce in 1 gallon of water. 
Rust and Mildew 
Apply sulfur dust to young plants of snapdragon, holly- 
hock, rose, delphinium, phlox and zinnia. If the diseases 
appear on older plants dust every two weeks during the 
season. 
Rose Blackspot 
A three-in-one spray such as “Triogen” will control both 
insects and diseases. Or, dusting sulfur plus 10% lead 
arsenate may be used; one form is known as Massey’s dust. 
This dust is improved by adding 10% Fermate. Spray or dust 
once a week or oftener, 
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