Show Watch Your Garden Carefully for Swift Army of Destroyers a 1 w M t r i iK K A wry P Sid 1 E lr rc a a aeZ eZ M s J Hoeing out ont the at the border ot of a 1 garden along the fence 1 10 0 ot of the line pests Wert nere found to the Square yard EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE Tills NOTE Tills Is the sixth of a series eries of or ten to articles ex cx- cx cx preparation seeding ceding and cultivation of tire the b baci yarn 1111 garden gar gar- den Watch your our garden Inspect It every enry day tor for the army of or tiny de- de de destroyers that preys upon garden crops Is swift and gives fives but little warning The leaders In that army of ot In- In In Insects sec sects s are are leaders cutworms plant lice blis- blis blister blister blis blister ter beetles flea-beetles flea grasshoppers grasshoppers grasshoppers pers worms wire-worms red nd spiders and slugs s and snails The smooth gra gray and cut brown brown brown- cuI- cuI cut cutworms worms are well known knon to most per per- persons persons sons who ho have raised gardens They are aro the children of obscure brownish brown- brown brownish ish moths and hatch from eggs laid In the late Inte summer Since they can feed fe d by night the they can kill many plants before a gardener knows they are aro about The chief Injury they Inflict Is In cutting off oft the stems of ot young plants planta just 1st at the surface of ot the soil soli Some climb plants and attack only the leaves One cutworm can kill many plants In a a night POISONED RUT BAIT The best remedy for tor cutworm Is poisoned bait This Is made for use In a II small garden by thorough thorough- thoroughly ly mixing two level tablespoonfuls or 01 white arsenic or parIs parts green five pounds of dry bran Then add rom corn four to six quarts of Water wa- wa ter In which halt half a n pint of ot sor SOl sorghum sorghum h has s been mixed ml After the tho thomash thomash mash has stood for several hours scatter catter it thinly over the garden or about the bases of the plants la It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is well ell to mix the poison polson in the morning and apply It In the eve eve- evening eve evening ning so that It will bo be moist and attractive when the cutworms punch the tor for the eve eve eve- evening nine eve ning meal The Tho treatment may bo ho repeated repealed If the worms are arc not destroyed by bythe lIle first application As the tho mash I Is poisonous keep children live livestock stock and poultry away from from fields where It has been applied picking Hand Is effective In small gardens The cutworms cutworm us- us conceal themselves near the base ot of the plant or an inch or 01 so below the tho surface of the tho ground Small soft bodied insects known a plant lice collect on th the tho ends ends ot of twigs and shoots and on the under underside underside side of leaves They can bo be detected de- de detected de detected by watching for Cor the curling ot of tho leaves Their rate rato of ot In- In In Cl clease ease Is tremendous On their lint appearance n m the garden it Is well to apply a pray i-pray of ot nicotine sulphate or to dust with nicotine dust Strong soapsuds or other soaps and kerosene emulsion are also effective USE BRAN DnA SH I often orten strip the leaves of ot various plants Use against them the tho same bran mash mashas Cs for cut cutworms adding one chopped orange or lemon to the water before mixing Wire worms often oCten do great dam dam- damage dam damage age ago to potatoes beets and carrots by burrowing through the roots of the plants Deep midsummer cul- cul cultivation cul cultivation and heavy fertilizing will reduce worm wire damage BUster Blister beetles or army beetles beetle cat beetle eat cat everything In their path The fashioned Theold-fashioned old fashioned potato bug buff Is a mem mem- member mem- mem member member ber of ot this family Some are black others are arc brown or yellow with black stripes or spots The spray to be used against them is lead ar- ar arsenic ar arsenic Ag Against red spiders use a spray or dust of flowers of ot sulphur Air Air- slaked lime time will kill slugs and snails TOMORROW Flowers ers |