. School and home gardens. Gardening; School gardens. 180 SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENS appearance. Use five pounds of arsenate of lead to fifty gallons of water. The spray should reach the under- side of the leaves. The larvse may be trapped in strips of gunny sack tacked around the tree, as indicated in Fig. 100. Remove them from L. I Wi 1 """^!-'"fflllMI^1 ^'^® iolds of the strip 1^^ ^igi-'t^yjg^B everyday. The brown- tail moth, the gypsy moth, the cankerworm, and the tent caterpillar may also be held in check to some extent with the gunny sack, or they may be con- trolled by
. School and home gardens. Gardening; School gardens. 180 SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENS appearance. Use five pounds of arsenate of lead to fifty gallons of water. The spray should reach the under- side of the leaves. The larvse may be trapped in strips of gunny sack tacked around the tree, as indicated in Fig. 100. Remove them from L. I Wi 1 """^!-'"fflllMI^1 ^'^® iolds of the strip 1^^ ^igi-'t^yjg^B everyday. The brown- tail moth, the gypsy moth, the cankerworm, and the tent caterpillar may also be held in check to some extent with the gunny sack, or they may be con- trolled by spraying with arsenate of lead. Brown-tail nests which may be found at the tips of twigs during the winter should be cut off and burned. Gypsy-moth nests may be destroyed b}- soaking them with creosote Fig. 100. A Double Strip of Gunny Sack tacked around an Elm Tree to trap the Larvae of the Elm-Leaf Beetle. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Meier, William Herman Dietrich, 1868-. Boston, New York [etc. ] Ginn and Co
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