INSECTS THAT ATTACK THE GARDEN 
Consult your state experiment station for more specific control measures. 
TYPE NAME DAMAGE CONTROL 
RED SPIDER MITE Causes brown blotches on leaves |Dust or spray with wettable sul- 
phur or certain of the new miti- 
LEAF HOP pee 
PER Gives leaf tips scorched, puckered Control with chlordane or lindane 
appearance | 
SUCKING | 
APHIDS Cause leaf curling, malformed|Lindane, rotenone or P-R mixture 
flowers and weak plants 
STRIPED CUCUMBER BEETLE Feeds on leaves, spreads cucum- Dust seedlings and keep new and 
ber wilt disease old leaves coated with methoxy- 
chlor or P-R mixture 
CUT WORM Cuts off plants at soil level Wrap 3-inch cardboard collar 
‘loosely around newly set plants 
APANE i i i i a 
CHEWING J SE BEETLE Skeletonizes leaves, ruins foliage ase or spray with 5% DDT and 
|keep coated 
| FLEA BEETLE Chews sieve like holes lUse DDT, methoxychlor, P-R mix- 
| ‘ture or cryolite up to one month 
before harvest 
| B i k b D : ith 1% ry fixed 
| CORN BORER ores into stalks and base of ears ust wit / rotenone or fixe 
‘nicotine dust 
| | 
BORERS 
_ SQUASH BORER 
plants 
Feeds in the stem and destroys Spray or dust with rotenone or 
/nicotine 
PROPER TOOLS CAN SAVE TIME AND LABOR 
Every gardener needs a good hoe, and 
preferably two. While the regular field or 
garden hoe has millions of friends, the 
square top onion hoe does more types 
of work, weighs less and does every- 
thing the field hoe will. This onion hoe 
has a blade less than two inches high, 
hence it does not move a mass of soil. 
Soil flows over it easily, reducing the 
effort needed to use it. Because of its 
narrow width, the end can be used to 
thin plants in the row. The old idea that 
the deeper you stirred the soil, the bet- 
ter, has been cast aside, completely. To 
cultivate in the modern manner you first 
sharpen the hoe blade as a cutting tool. 
The four-tined cultivator digs in with an 
easy, pulling motion. The working depth 
of the tines is 4 inches for the standard 
model, Another good cultivator of the 
garden is the three-tine junior, which is 
light in weight and easy on the back. For 
deeper cultivation, the five-pronged gar- 
den cultivator with long handle will do 
practically everything a wheel hoe cul- 
tivator will, though not as rapidly, It is 
the logical tool for the smaller garden. It 
should not be used too late in the sea- 
son, however, after plant roots have be- 
gun to spread out between the rows. 
CULTIVATORS 
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For breaking up heavy clay soils, many 
gardeners like a spading fork. The tines 
go in easier and the clods tend to break 
easily when pried out. 
The choice of a digging tool is a matter of 
personal preference, but those who have 
not used the long-handled, round pointed 
shovel should try this tool. Because of its 
long handle, it gives greater leverage, 
which means less work for the back and 
arms of the digger. While it is called a 
shovel and can be used for shoveling 
loose soil, it is equally good for spading 
and turning over the soil. 
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