Show avoid beetle injury to young asparagus plants I 1 beetle injury to young asparagus shoots may be avoided by cutting the crop clean every three to five days in this may all the eg eggs deposited on the shoots mill be re moed telore lefore they halili or soon afterwards at ml volunteer should be destroyed and it will often pay to hae am e a row here and there uncut to serve as a trap on the beetris will III congregate feed anil ant lay their eggs here they may be upil d with calcium ar senate OP or lead arsenate senate ir after the cutting eason season plants may be pre froia from beetle injury by two or three applications of calcium arsenate or lend lead arsenate lust dust 5 pounds alx i with ith 83 85 pounds of by drafted lime the use of poultry for the de eruct lon of 0 f the beetle Is practiced with good results la in conie forne localities |