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2 Agricultural ^ Department Fighting Summer Garden Pests. A number of inquiries which have come to me from house wives and o'hers whose gardens are damaged by bugs, beetles, and other peFts will be answered tnoothAv in this nna article. SQUASH AND PUMPKIN BEETLES. For keeping beetles oil of squash and pumpkin vines, there are di/Terent methods of procedure Some people recommend the use of dust mixtures containing lime, laud plaster, or Hour used as a carrier for some arsenical poison, while others recommend the use of the liquid Bordeaux mixture, con taining a similar poison. Both of these treatments are iutended to act as a repellent, to keep the beetles oil' the plants, and also to poison those that attempt to eat the foliage. For young plants, 1 think it best to protect them by a covering of cheese cloth or mosquito netting, sup. ported by stakes two or three inches high, or by using a bar rel hoop cut iu half and crossed over the plants. If plants are protected in this way. until they are three weeks old, they are then large enough to be quite resistant to the leaf eating beetles and aleo to the sucking bugs that may often be present. For subsequent treatment, I would prefer to use Bordeaux mixture, which you can make as follows: 5 pounds of unslacked lime. 3 pounds ot copper sulphate (blue 6tone) in 50 gallons of water, with the addition of 6 ounces of Paris green. By addting one pound ot resin boiled with a half pound of sal soda in one gallon ot water, the Bordeaux mixture may be made to adhere, in spite of heavy rains. This must be applied with a spray pump and care should be taken to cover the under side of the leaves as well as the upper. The poisoned Bordeaux mixture acts as a repellent and poison, and has the advantage over dust preparations, of adhering to the plants in spite of ordinary rains. A good dry dust treatment consists of twenty-five pound?- of air-6h?cked lime or land piaster, containing one pound of Paris green. This should be thoroughly mixed and dusted over the plants, preferably in the morning, before the due is gone. This treatment must be repeated alter every shower, in order to keep the plants protected. BUGS THAT INJURE CABBAGE. The black and red striped bug. known as the terrapin bug or calico bug, is an insect that gets its food by sucking the plant juices, and cannot therefore be killed by spraying the infested plants with arsenical poison preparations. Mrs. Coffey, who aaks lor a remedy for these pests, says that the terrapin bugs live on mustard until\hat plant goes to seed, when they migrate to the cabhncrn and noMard. Her state raent shows liow the huus 111 be (ought by killing them on the mustard before they migrate They may be collected by bant and dropped in a pan of kerc aene, or buried deep in th< THE L ground. The terrapin bugs increase very rapidly and cau6? so much damage to cabbages that it is well worth while to kill them, if possible, while they are still working on the mustard or on other plants on which they may occur. As a direct remedy, it is possible to use 15 per cent kerosene emulsion which will result in the deaili of all ol the young ternniu buns and some of ihe adults. 1 have frequently made ?:se of this treatment and find that by spraying the iuiested plants twice, sprayings about ten days apart, I can kill practically all ot the bugs. When using the Kerosene emu'sion, it should be remembered that the bugs cannot be killed unless touched by the mixture, and the best way to get them is to use a spray pump, and apply the emulsion with considerable force, which will make many of the bugs drop from the plants, and they should then be thoroughly saturated where they lie on the ground. Some of them will crawl back to the plants, but if they have been covered by the kerosene, they will eventually die. I) At L'AII Til P rr r* t i ryji\ i 11& r lc.a nnr.ii.Lo. The little jumping insects, called Ilea beetles, may be fought by the Parit-green-Bordeauxmixture, as recommended against the squash beetles. It has been found that flea beetles dislike Bordeaux mix'ure very much, and it consequently acts more effectively as a repellent against these beetles than against many of the larger species. The flea beetles eat tiny holes in the leaves, and it the plants on which they occur are well covered with poisoned mixture, the majority ol the beetles will be killed. SPRAY FOR CABBAGE WORMS. The green worms 011 cabbages and col lards may be 1 ought by poisoned sprays, which treatment is thoroughly effective. I ' would recommend using one-half pound ot Paris green in fnty gallons of water, with the addiI tion of two pounds ot freshly | slacked lime, and a resin mix i ture as recommended above to be in Bordeaux mixture. If this poisoned spray is applied to cabbages or collards when the i worms first appear, and repeated within two weeks, ami a third time two weeks later, the plants i may he thoroughly protected. This mixture .should he applied with a spray pump which throws a tine mist, and only enough used i to make a thin coating over the I leaves. WHY PARIS GR&EX IS NOT DANGEROl'S ON CAHJiAGES. There ii no danger of I'aris green getting in the cabbages and poisoning people, if the mixture is not used on the plants within two or three weeks ot the time when they are to bo eaten, Experiments have been made which show the truth ot thif I statement. Many people art atraid to eat cabbages which have been sprayed with poison, but it they stop anil think how tin * cabbage grows, they will under > stand that there is practical!} . no danger. Cabbage heads an 1 j continually growing from tin -'central bud, the leaves from tin e i middle pushing outward all thi ANCASTER NEWS. JULY Don't Stop My Paper. Don't stop iny paper, editor. Don't strike my name off yet; You know the timos are stringent, And dollars hard to gel; Rut tug a little harder Is what I mean to do, And scrape the dimes together? Knougli for me and you. I can't afford to drop it, And 1 find it doesn't pay To do without a paper: However others may. I hate to ask my neighbors To give me theirs in loan, They don't just say, but mean it: "Why don't you have your own?" ' You can't tell how we miss it: I f it by any fate Should batmen not to reach us. ! Or come a littlo late. Then all is in a hubbub. And things go all awry; And editor, if you're married. You know the reason why. The children want their portion, And wife is anxious too, At first to glance it over, And then to read it through. I read the editorials, The locals I peruse. And read the correspondence, And every bit of news. ?Exchange. tune, so tlmt the poison does not remain in between the leaves as people sometimes suppose. Furthermore, the outside leaves are always removed before cooking, aud after the cab bages are washed, it is almost impossible for any poisou to remain. For fighting the worms on cabbages that are almost ready to be used for cooking, use fresh Fyrethrum powder, dusting it liberally over the plants. This kills the worms both by coining in contact with them, and by being eaten with their food. Pyrethrum is not poisonous to men, aud may be used with perfect safety. This powder loses its strength within a tew days after being exposed to the air, so ? I i i i * ? - ma1 me purcnaser snouu nisisi on getting it in sealed cans, otherwise it is ol very little value. It readers of this article wish further information, the undersigned would be glad to have their inquiries. R I. Smith. Entomologist N. C. Experiment Station, NVe-t Raleigh, North Carolina, in The Progressive Farmer. Use De Witt's Little Early Kiser-., pleasant little pills that are easy to take. Sold by all druggitttH. \v-s Jail in Florida Burned. Jacksonville, Fla.. June 28.? A telegram received hero tonight from Titusville says: The Brevard county jail, together with the sheriff'!: home, w?9 completely uesiroveu uv fire here tonight. The prisoners, mostly negroes, wore rescued after a hard fight, and not one made his escape. They are now being held under guard in the city. The loss is estimated at ' $50,000. $100 Ueward, $100 ! The readers of this paper will he pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded ' disease that science has heen able to cure ) in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive ' cure now known to the medical fraternity. , Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's i Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly npon the blood and inucons snrt faces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient ctrength by building np the ? constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have ao much 7 I faith in its curative powers that they otter a i One Hundied Dollars for any case that it " tails to cure iteod for list of testimonials. f. i Address F. J CHENEY & CO..Toledo, O. 9 | Hold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family I'ills for constipa0 I lion. I. I9Q8 F11 Want I ' 11 T. Y. 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