Show Bordeaux Bordea Mixture Is Good for Tomatoes Control for Leaf Diseases and Kills W Worms Tomatoes should be sprayed every two or three weeks with pol poisoned bordeaux mixture to prevent lre teat leaf dis eases and to get rid of ot worms ad vIs vises E. E B. B Morrow extension horticulturist hor hor- at the North Carolina State Stute college The mixture may be brou brought ht ready rendy prepared or made mude at ut hume home hut but care should be used In lu home so as us to get the proper solution It If a as 88 much muchas as fifty gallons callous of It the mixture Is needed needed need ed three pounds of and six pounds of hydrated lime e should he be used for each fifty gallons of ot water Mix the lime with enough water to I form a thin paste before adding to I the larger amount When the tank or barrel IB Is filled I add the dissolved td bluestone and one I and one half pounds of arsenate of ot I lend lead to the fifty gallons Bluestone 1 may be dissolved by using hot water but care should be taken to use only glass earthenware or wooden containers containers con con- for this work Smaller amounts of ot the mixture can cun be made by using one ounce of bluestone blue blue- stone two o ounces of ot hydrated lime and one half an nCe of arsenate of ot lead to each euch l gallon llon of water Mr Morrow states that this mixture should be he applied every three weeks ut least and that every part of ot the plant should be he touched with the spray By Dy doing this the worms und and nd other Insects will be destroyed ed and und the tile plants protected from leaf leat di eases |