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Show INSECT ENEMY OF CURRANTS Common Worm Can Be Controlled by Spraying With Some Poison Two Other Pests. The chief insect enemy the currant has is the common currant worm. This con be controlled by spraying with some poison, either paris green at the rate of five ounces to 50 gallons of water, wa-ter, and one pound of lime, or arsenate of lead, two pounds to 50 gallons'. This should he applied when the currants are beginning to form, and if necessary neces-sary repeated in two weeks. There is also a green plant louse which attacks the currant foliage and frequently causes considerable damage dam-age by sucking the sap. The only way this can be controlled is by the application ap-plication of Black Leaf 40, before the lice cause the leaves to curl. After the leaves curl, there is very little that can be done to check this pest. It ' usually disappears about midsummer, midsum-mer, as at that time it goes to another an-other plant. Occasionally the currant Is attacked by the San Jose scale, or more frequently fre-quently by the Kurope.m plant scale. Fither of these scales can be controlled controll-ed bv the regular application of linie-siilphur before the buds start in the spring. The regular commercial commer-cial lime-sulphur testing 32 decrees de-crees Beaume should be diluted at the rate'of one gallon to eight ounces of ivater. |