Show TENT CATERPILLAR DOES MUCH DAMAGE Insects Will Soon Strip Tree of Its Foliage Spraying Foliage Spraying Will Destroy Them A few colonies of the tent caterpillars lars which you can identify by the unsightly unsightly un un- sightly web nests ests or tents that they make in trees tree's will soon strip a tree of or orits Its foliage The nests may be either cut out and destroyed or burned with witha a torch taking care not to seriously injure the tree The masses of eggs from which these nests of caterpillars hatch are laid on the trees in early midsummer and may be seen and destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de when the leaves fall Spraying the trees with paris green half one pound to fifty gallons of water water wa wa- ter or arsenate of lead two pounds wa-I wa to fifty fUty gallons of water water while the caterpillars caterpillars cater cater- pillars are small will dispose of them On the stone fruits such as as cherries peaches and plums these poisons must be used with caution or they will injure injure injure in in- jure the foliage tollage Arsenate of ot lead Is safest and sticks better Either arsenate of lead or parts paris green should have the milk from two or three pounds of lime added to ea earh h 50 gallons of mixture to neutralize their caustic action L |