Diseases & insects of the home garden . DISEASES AND INSECTS OF THE HOME GARDEN 11. Fig. 14.—The spinach louse, showing full-grownlouse and young ones. Greatly enlarged. bage, otherwise the spray is not likely to stay on well. While the sprayleaves a coating on the outer leaves until late in the season there is nodanger, as the outer leaves are alwajs removed before cooking, and what-ever trace of the arsenic might remain on the inner leaves is not sufficient tobe injurious. Hand picking theworms will also help. Prevention.—The clearingup and burning of all suchweeds as mustard, shepherdspurse
Diseases & insects of the home garden . DISEASES AND INSECTS OF THE HOME GARDEN 11. Fig. 14.—The spinach louse, showing full-grownlouse and young ones. Greatly enlarged. bage, otherwise the spray is not likely to stay on well. While the sprayleaves a coating on the outer leaves until late in the season there is nodanger, as the outer leaves are alwajs removed before cooking, and what-ever trace of the arsenic might remain on the inner leaves is not sufficient tobe injurious. Hand picking theworms will also help. Prevention.—The clearingup and burning of all suchweeds as mustard, shepherdspurse, pepper grass, etc., be-fore planting cabbage plantswill help keep down the num-ber of worms. Destroy allinjured plants and stalks byburning as soon as the maincrop is harvested. CABBAGE LOOPER. —Thecabbage looper is the young,or worm, of a medium-sizedgray moth (fig. 13). It ispale green and delicate look-ing when first hatched. When larger, it becomes strijjed, and gets its nameof looper by its habit of doubling up, or looping, as it walks. It eats allkinds of cabbage-l
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