Show eradicating PLUM 0 arsenate Arc enato of lead applied when leaf buds are swelling will hold in n burlous insect in check the plum curculla cur curc cullo or the little turk la Is a very bad enemy ot of plums and apples says a bulletin from tho the minnesota college it hibernates as a mature beetle and when the warm days of spring come it Is ready tor for its first meal on the swelling buds later on the female attacks the young fruit almost as soon as formed poking the eggs beneath the skin and marking round around a each egg the characteristic crescent shaped mark arsenate Ar of lead three pounds to fifty gI gallons lons of water applied when the he leaf buds are aie swelling again when the blossoms fall and again two weeks later will hold this insect in check it if the arsenate of lead Is combined with the self boiled lime sulphur or with bordeaux mixture fungus diseases like shot hole fungus of at the plum and cherry and the scab of tho the apple will also bo ba kept within bounds |