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Show GET THE BUGS EARLY Garden May Be Destroyed Unless Un-less Insects Are Killed. Generous and Frequent Sprayings Are Necessary to Insure Returns to Industrious Gardener. One of the principal of the numerous numer-ous slogans of the successful cottage gardener is "Get the Bugs and Get 'Em Early !" Unless the bugs are killed before they have time to breed, the gardener has about as many troubles as he has when he has neglected the weeds. The majority of young plants are infested in-fested with different kinds of bugs. Flowers usually are as badly affected Gpraying Young Plants. as vegetables. The United States Department De-partment of Agriculture says: One of the principal methods of combating com-bating both diseases and insects which attack plants is treatment with fungicides fungi-cides and insecticides. Bordeaux mixture is used for a control con-trol of fungous diseases of many vegetables veg-etables and fruits and as a deterrent of flea-beetle attack. It can be purchased pur-chased in convenient package form from seed dealers or prepared at home from Milestone (copper sulphate), which costs 10 to 25 cents per pound, and fresh stone or lump lime (quicklime). (quick-lime). Bluestone, four ounces ; quicklime, four ounces ; water, 12 quarts. Or bluestone. four pounds; quicklime, four pounds ; water, 50 gallons. Dissolve the blue stone in a wooden wood-en or earthenware vessel, using hot water. Dilute with half the water. Do not use in tin or other metal containers, con-tainers, as they would be spoiled. Slake the lime by adding water, a little lit-tle at a time. When reduced to a milky fluid, dilute with the rest of the water and strain through doubled cheesecloth or a brass wire strainer of 18 meshes per inch and pour into it the bluestone solution. Stir well and apply at once. This is best when prepared fresh for each using. |
