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Show s; Small Fruit Pests. Garden vegetables are remarkably free from diseases and insect pests, This is due to the fact that they ar nearly all annuals and they are grown, in small quaitities and on different locations every year or so. Small bush fruits, on the other.hand, are almost certain to be seriously damaged dam-aged by a number of parasites unless they receive the necessary care to protect pro-tect them. The conditions under which this class of back yard crops, grows is favorable to the development of these pests. The plants are long lived and frequently fre-quently carry the larvae or the spores of their respective parasites over frora. season to season. As handled by most people, the diseased stems, leaves and fruits are left on the ground about the bushes, and parasites propagate in such rubbish with vigor. Probably the most general and the-most the-most destructive pest encountered on the bush fruits is 6ome form of foliage eating worm, like the larvae of the saw-fly. saw-fly. There worms appear almost as-soon as-soon as the leaves are out and they will soon strip the entire bush of its foliage unless they are promptly exterminated. ex-terminated. It is fortunate that they can be killed very easily if properly treated, and the treatment will apply equally well with any leaf-eating; worm. The saw-fly's eggs are laid on th under side of the leaves, especially those leaves located well down in the-center the-center of the plant. Watch your berry-bushes berry-bushes closely and get busy as soon as you notice little holes in any of the lower leaves, as that means that the worms are there and are getting la their work of destruction. If taken in hand now, there will be little trouble or expense involved, so act promptly. Get some Dowdered white hellebore and dust it on all of the foliage in the region where the worms have begun work. Scatter it thickly and get it on both sides of the leaves. Do the dusting dust-ing early in the morning, before tha-dew tha-dew is off the leaves. The powder will then stick fast and will remain until the next heavy rain. If it should rain immediately, powder pow-der again. The whole bush should be treated if the worms have got a good start, and if you allow these worms to-strip to-strip the foliage the fruit will be small, shriveled and tasteless. Remember Re-member that the leaves are both the digestive and respiratory organs of the plant, and without them it can neither eat nor breathe. If large numbers of ants appear on the bushes, investigate the under surface sur-face or the leaves for tiny green aphis, or plant lice. A good spraying with tobacco water will fix them. Cane borers, gall beetles, tree crickets, crick-ets, etc., kill individual canes and the only remedy is to cut out and burn all Infected canes and clean up all rubbish. Red rust is prevalent in some sections sec-tions and it is very deadly and especially espe-cially contagious. It is a parasitic disease dis-ease which causes spots of rusty-looking fungi to appear on the stems. Cutting Cut-ting out and burning diseased canes and spraying the rest frequently with Bordeaux mixture is the only means of cambating it. This mixture is hard to handle in a small garden Anthracnose is another deadly disease dis-ease and is indicated by the presence of purple patches on stems aud foliage. foli-age. Treat as for rust. Certain varieties are more resistant to these diseases, and these should be planted in localities known to he infected. in-fected. For mildew on currants and gooseberries, goose-berries, use powdered sulphur and apply ap-ply it In the form of dust while the dew Is on the leaves. |