. Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . n Vir-ginia. I notice a great many brownspots or blotches on the leaves ofmv strawberry vines. Are they rust?JOSHUA FRANKLIN. Clay County, Ala. I cannot, from the description, tellwhat insect it is that eats the mel-ons. Muskmelons are attacked by va-rious insects. The little striped beet-le attacks them when just comingthrough the ground, and these can bedriven off by dusting with fine bonemeal in which a few drops of car-bolic acid have been well mixed togive an offensi
. Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . n Vir-ginia. I notice a great many brownspots or blotches on the leaves ofmv strawberry vines. Are they rust?JOSHUA FRANKLIN. Clay County, Ala. I cannot, from the description, tellwhat insect it is that eats the mel-ons. Muskmelons are attacked by va-rious insects. The little striped beet-le attacks them when just comingthrough the ground, and these can bedriven off by dusting with fine bonemeal in which a few drops of car-bolic acid have been well mixed togive an offensive odor, or they can bekilled by spraying with Bordeaux mix-ture to which 5 ounces of Paris greenhave been added to 50 gallons ofthe mixture. Then the melon louseattacks them, and these can hekept off by dusting the plants wellwith tobacco dust and repeat itwhen washed off. Some entomolo- Fat or Lean, Yon May Have Them. POLAND-CHINA AND TAMWORTH Two Tamworth Boars, ready forservice $18 Two Berkshire Boar Pigs, 3 to 4months old • One Poland-China Boar, 2 yearsold, registered 20 Bight-weeks-old Pigs, April de-livery 5. J. C. GRAVES, BARBOURSVILLE, ORANGE COUNTY, VA.
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