The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 01, 1908, Page 2, Image 2
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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<
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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with the sheriff'!: home,
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