. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. 98—How to Make the Garden Pay. mended as the chief preventive measure. Ordinarily we can succeed in preventing serious damage to our young plants of the Brassica family, by dusting them, when first appeanng above ground, with plaster, air-slacked lime, sifted wood ashes, soot, tobacco dust, or in fact any dust-like material. When the beetles appear in very large numbers, and consequently are very hungry, mere grit will not repel them, and a little admixture of Pans green—one part to a hundred parts of plaster—to such appli- cations will be n
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. 98—How to Make the Garden Pay. mended as the chief preventive measure. Ordinarily we can succeed in preventing serious damage to our young plants of the Brassica family, by dusting them, when first appeanng above ground, with plaster, air-slacked lime, sifted wood ashes, soot, tobacco dust, or in fact any dust-like material. When the beetles appear in very large numbers, and consequently are very hungry, mere grit will not repel them, and a little admixture of Pans green—one part to a hundred parts of plaster—to such appli- cations will be necessary. The insect is hardy and resistant enough not to appear to be inconvenienced by even the best of buhach in full strength, nor by strong vapors of naphtalme. Little chicks will catch these insects in great quantities, and so will toads when they happen to come across an infested patch. Of late these insects have appeared in vast numbers in our potato fields, and often entirely ruin the foliage, greatly reducing the crop of tubers. The only remedy that thus far has seemed to give relief, is spraying the vines freely with a strong decoction of tobacco stems or dust. Very likely, also, the free use of dry tobacco dust may drive these beetles away. Grubs— White. See May Beetle. Maggot—Ca66ag-e, Onion, etc. See Onion Fly, May Beetle. {Lachnosterna) In the perfect or beetle state, this does not usually damage the gardener's crops very seriously; but its larva, the well known and much feared "white grub" is often very destructive to the roots of straw- berries, corn and other garden plants, especially when grown on sod land recently brought under cultivation. Both beetle and larva are shown in illustration. Fortunately these fat grubs have many natural enemies, especially brown thrushes, robins, crows, and a number of other birds; also moles, pigs, skunks, etc. Fall plow- ing and continued cultivation will soon rid the field of their undesirable presence. I
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