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Show ERADICATE SOME OF STRAWBERRY PESTS Use Lead Arsenate Spray for Leaf Rollers and Flea Beetles -Plow for Grubs. (By T. tT. 'TALBERT, Kansas Experiment Station.) Strawberry leaf rollers : The larva . rolls the leaf and feeds upon it. Spray the plants with lead arsenate and burn the .fields as oon as .crop is harvested. Strawberry flea beetles : The adults eat holes through the leaves. .Spray the plants with lead arsenate .before the fruit ,is half mature. Strawberry crown borers : The grub tunnels and feeds .in the crowns of the plant. Pructice crop rotation. Burn ! over infected fields in fall. White grubs : The larvae of June beetles damage grass, corn, strawberries strawber-ries and other plants by eating off the roots. Practice fall plowing to expose the insects, and harrow thoroughly before be-fore planting. |