Show gaag I 1 1 ww 0 o 12 no rt FIGHTING INSECTS AND FUNGI akew Liu plo a bloir rail and the oie inin pump anew plin has bris been proposed for inject t anil and fungi tho the great business of and curing plant diseases disease lias has been built on tho the supposition that water is tho the best beet medium for carrying the poison wo we have therefore treated the bugs to mi all idle allo dose paying for tho the apparatus iipp aratus needed to handlo handle tho the water there has now been introduced a learis green gun aich is a device dc vico for blOW blowing 1119 tile the potton 0 cr tile tho plant in the form of a hut this may bo be termed tile homeopathic of bug brig lighting fighting ju order to obtain facts about tho i dative values of tile tho two methods rural new yorker acut questions to panties who lieve havo tried both conclusions arrived at after a I 1 duo due of adothus set beet forth foith by tile tho authority refe referred ired to keep your powder dry seems to ile be the advice of those who have been fighting figh tins insects on oil bushes nud arid trees with a gun guit for the tha use of bell bellefore ebore bubich bubach and other powders of similar nily nay lure tho the dr dry method seeing to havo have the preference for putting paris green on oa potatoes certainly the gun is ia easier licater li caper and capter than shaking it giom it ii sitter sifter when it conica cOrles paring this ibia dry method with that of eif sprinkling tire tho paris green in water vater it is not so eo easy casy to cst imato their relative values the daiy diy pott arr is most effective when the air is ia still and when the vines lie aio moist or daina it is evidently tho the cherp cr method so far us as outfit and matT material lal ire ars concerned d on the other band the sprinkler may be used at any tune time in wind or cilin calm it will work very touch faster than it mail with the gun though tho the latter has au an advantage in ill the fact that lie ho ran can do 10 a more inore job speaking ahing of this wo we rilay may say that bat there is a machine in england keown as ai the that would blow out ont these poisons rs ES fast as tho sil drops the watce when it comes to tho the question of effig a 1 dry PuA powder vElcy to tile tho illch illco of the tha bordeaux mixture arid and other fungicides there thera is ia little or no evidence at land band to chov that such a substitution will answer there ire reports from france and germany of successful experiments peri ments with dry powder fun fungicides icid cs but american would better to lo tho the old cold plan until careful experiments demon demonstrator strato blidt there thera is a utter one this how ran fan ifie method thod of distributing insecticides has come to stay but it will not cot answer to say that it will do all tho the worl work yet A coi respondent who made at an application of isris green with tire blowgun a serious sickness due so eo ho be believed to ir baling the paris paria ue ile lit pickers eters a spraying outfit or water to dry powder if poison were used ile ho the gun gnu with slug shot on oil cucuta ler vines viuca with success also on oil currants with great ecat advantage and thinks thanks for this alono it is it a great i abiog of time aad labor jie ile reporter reported that willi title a moderate walk in ill potatoes it givas a I 1 splendid Eplen did distribution the trouble from inhaling paris gi een is the earious objection given against the ilio uso of pure dry poisons it leads the journal quoted to refer to a quito important matter in tho the caro care of tho the nose A gricar of veselin vaseline 0 on the inside ot tire the nostrils will v ill not only bare lucli annoyance aniio anno yanco froin dust but will ollon often prevent a cold in ill tile tho lead bead when boiking in coal dint the chair chaff from flora a I 1 separator cr lit in other dusty plas this practice will save much discomfort or ven ill health |