Show iback YARD FARMER interesting pointers on gardening for the city man or suburbanite WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN advice by an expert on agricultural matters garden and plant pests pest dwarf tomatoes flower bed notes by PROF JOHN WILLARD BOLTE practically all ot of the domestic garden pests pesta can be I aled without difficulty by the proper treat treatment mont yet few ew people seem to realize chis tha and everywhere we see plants and house flowers struggling for existence and supporting a host of 0 parasites when lust just a little intelligent treatment would turn these plants from sickly weaklings wea klings into hardy producers some of the commonest posts pests together with the proper treatment to eliminate them follow aphis or green lice la Is a parasite about one halt half the size ot of the head ot of a pin green la color and shows but tittle little activity they aro are found particularly oa on the tha that Is tho the vines ot of the cucumber family and on all sorts ot of house plants it ants are present on your outside plants look out tor for these green lice they ar are sometimes called ants ancs cows for th tha ants seem to tend them stroking g t them em with their feelers when the A apala his gives elves out a sweet secretion of which the ants are fond the treatment for green lice la 13 tobacco tea i ls la readily made by boung tobacco stems la in water spray the plants with a spray gun gum three or tour four times at two or throe day intervals red sted spider the red spider Is a little red bug it moves rapidly over he plants merely a spraying with tobacco toa or plain clear water will get getlid rid ot of this pest its size Is about the same game as aa the green lice striped beetle the striped beetle is one eighth ot an inch long and the fact that it can fly makes it a danger to any garden it Is found in the soil at the base of the stems ot of the cu cur dur bits it kills the young vinos vines but after the vines begin to send off runners they are sate safe from this pest peal the treatment la is powdered white helli hellebore bore scattered around the hills bills and on the plants or the plants can be sprayed with water and the he hellebore dusted on or a suspension solution may be made and the plants sprayed another treatment la is alp aar slacked lime in suspension solution or cow manure plastered over the ground near the vines cut worms may attack any plant la in the garden cutting it off under the tha ground they have a special liking for peas and beans it young tender plants dla die quickly or you find that the plants from seed are not appearing above ground look out for cut worms Ws mix one pound of bran with enough water to make a dough add a tablespoonful of some and another tablespoonful tablespoon tul of white arsenic mix mil well and scatter a little about the plants the cut worms will eat this and die potato bugs this familiar pest can be quickly gotten rid of by spraying the potato plants with a suspension solution of paris green spray two or three times to kill the tha young paris green contains arsenic and in using this or tha ta white arsenic caro care should hould be used as it la Is exceedingly poisonous tomato worms it if you find your I 1 tomato plants are losing their leav leaves look out tor for these worms they are ara anywhere from three to six inches la in length and as aa large as three fourt fourths hs of an inch la in diameter it Is seldom that more than two or three appear in tho the garden at one ona time and they are quickly killed by hand for cabbage worms dust the plants with powdered hellebore before the heads form later dust the hellebore na im the outside leaves as the worms appear A little attention to getting rid ot of bardea arden pests will well repay in the increased production of ot the garden |