Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-01
DESTROYING INSECTS.
Remedies for the Various Pests that In
fest Gardens and Their Use.

fest Gardens and Their Use.
Land plaster busted on plants when the
dew is on will destroy some plant insects,
and will benefit the plant in most instances
and do harm to no crop.
Land plaster mixed with little Paris
green or London purple will destroy many
kinds of insects. Dust it on the plants.
Repeat when necessary.
Tobacco stems chopped up and scattered
among young cabbage plants will drive off
the cabbage fly.
Two gallons kerosene oil, half pound
common or whale oil soap and gallon of
hot water, well mixed and churned or
forced through spray nozzle. This NAL kes
three gallons of emulsion-mix this with
twenty seven gallons of water and it is
ready for spraying plants or fruit trees.
What the horticulturist, Landreth, says
about it:
To meet the increasing depredations of
insects upon vegetable life the best results
have been obtained by the use of three ar
ticles, viz arsenic, petroleum and py-
rethrum.
The first in the form of Paris green, or
London purple, acts as a direct poison to
Ieaf-biting insects, which eat vegetable
little value to destroy juice-sucking in
sects.
The second and third named articles,
though less efficient than arsenic have the
best results in the destruction of juice
sucking insects which do not bite into the
leaf but puncture into the cuticle. An
external application of poison does not
reach these pests, so we are forced to suf-
focate them, or injure them by corrosive
action.
In the powder, Paris green may be
mixed with two hundred parts of plaster,
starch or flour, and in solution one pound
to two hundred gallons of water. Kero-
sene is often effectively applied mixed
with two parts Of milk. Another good ap-
plication is, kerosene eight parts, soft soap
one part, water eight parts-the two latter
heated to the boiling point, and the kero-
sense added when the emulsion is removed
away from fire. To this add twenty parts
of water and apply with fine syringe.
Pyrethrum is preparation of the flower
heads of a well-known plant. 1t may be
applied as a powder or in solution.
Some horticulturists put dry. pulverized
COW dung between the rows of cabbage
plants and work it into the soil while cul-
tivating the plants. They say cabbage
flies cannot stand the odor of COW dung.
What Horticulturist Buist says about
the cabbage fly: "Some seasons the fly Ia
small black beetle) destroys cabbage plants
as fast as they appear above the ground.
Scots, air-slacked lime and wood ashes
sprinkled over them, is, in part, prevent
i've. Others destroy them by having a
hen cooped near the plant bed, allowing
the young chickens to run among the
plants and destroy the flies. | invariably
grow my scarce seeds in boxes, elevated
eighteen inches above the ground,
entirely out of the reach of the insect,
which does not appear on elevated objects.
This operation requires more attention in
watering, but certainty is always gained
by it."
What Homes, in his Southern Farmer
and Gardener, has to say about it: Homes
recommends that barrel be filled one
third full of China berries Pride of China)
and then filed full Of water and let them