Show FIGHTING PESTS IN GARDENS la larger squash bugs found harder to control than othar insects treatment differs all of us its are bothered more or ices acs with injurious insect pests in tile the ga gar den dell and with di draling tiling with them 1 tho h a first thing to bo be determined js Is whether they aro are cli chewing ewing or sucking sticking iri ii s spots f lc t s w whether h eth c r they eat cat the leaf or extract e x t r a ot its 1 t sap si a L there must be en threll different treatment employed ta in the two cases the tha chewing ij sects are comparatively easy to get rid or of unless they ore erg working on the foliage which will ho be injured by the application of 0 a poison strong enough to kill tho the in ejects the sucking anit acts insert their bills through tho the skin of the leat leaf or stow etoia that they are feeding on vo fco as aa to ex tract the juice therefore no matter how much poison la Is applied to the our bur face tho the insects get none of it for tho the striped beetle which Is destructive tive to squash cli cucumber cumber and melon meloa vines a slight blight application ol of lime 11 roe tobacco dust plaster or ashes will be ba found a good preventive and will also rive away those abose which may have already appeared sometimes however the ashes will burn the th fo fe llaga liage it if rain falls soon after they are ar applied so BO on oil the whole lime gild plaster or tobacco dust ore are betler for the purpose says bays a writer r in the irne progress some deop teop ft healthy bunch of onions growing fa each hill bill bruising the leaves occasionally so no as aa to bide tile tho smell emell of the vines from tho the beetles the tha larger squash bugs have been tho the most troublesome and the hardest t to deal with to la our garden they aro are sap suckers ang an there Is noting A squash bug BUD we tte have found that will km kill them which would not at the same time be b injurious to tho the plants so hand ham picking se seems accia ems tho the only remedy it 16 maken quite a difference la iii the amount pt work orli done whether hand picking to la commenced early in the scabon or not noi until the new crop of bugs appear app ar |