Diseases & insects of the home garden . Treatment.—Arsenate of lead is thebest remedy. Use as described onpage 28. BLISTER BEETLES.^Blister beetlesrank next to the Colorado potato beetleas potato pests. They are slim, some-what soft-bodied insects of difTerentcolors, sometimes striped, that feed onall kinds of vegetables, seeming to pre-fer potatoes, after which they attackbeans, peas, beets, cabbage and otherplants. They are sometimes calledold-fashioned potato bugs. Treatment. — Lead arsenate is thebest remedy, mixed and put on asrecommended on page 28. FLEA-BEETLES. —Small round holesin the
Diseases & insects of the home garden . Treatment.—Arsenate of lead is thebest remedy. Use as described onpage 28. BLISTER BEETLES.^Blister beetlesrank next to the Colorado potato beetleas potato pests. They are slim, some-what soft-bodied insects of difTerentcolors, sometimes striped, that feed onall kinds of vegetables, seeming to pre-fer potatoes, after which they attackbeans, peas, beets, cabbage and otherplants. They are sometimes calledold-fashioned potato bugs. Treatment. — Lead arsenate is thebest remedy, mixed and put on asrecommended on page 28. FLEA-BEETLES. —Small round holesin the leaves of the potatoes and vari-ous related crops, such as tomatoesand eggplants, show the presence offlea-beetles. Treatment.—Lead arsenate (see ) put on as a spray is the best remedy,especially if stirred into Bordeaux mix-ture. Bordeaux mixture (see p. 27)alone is an excellent spray to drivethe beetles away. Spray both sides of Fig. 36.—Sweet potato slips showing . black-rot should not be set in the field. the 24 DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR ^fj, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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