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Show DAMAGE BY CURRANT WORMS Often Causes Considerable Defoliation Before Attack Is Noticed Spraying Is Best. The currant worm, by Its habit of first attacking the lower leaves and those on the inside of the bush, often causes considerable defoliation before the attack Is noticed. Three pounds of arsenate of lead to 50 gallons of water as a spray readily controls this pest, and If one makes the practice, at Ihe time of making 1 lie first codling moth spray on apples, to apply the same mixture to the currant and gooseberry bushes, getting the spray all through the bushes, the worms may be Ignored. In case the injury Is unnoticed un-noticed until the fruit is well grown use hellebore, dusted on or Id a spray I ut the rate of one ounce to two gallons j if aater |