The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
Insect Remedies.

The Vermont experiment station recon-
mends the following remedies:
/. Kerosene Emulsion-Two parts of
kerosene and one part of milk are mixed
and shaken or churned together until a
sort of butter is formed. This may be
kept any length of time. Use one part of
the butter in twelve quarts of water, or
the mixture can be made in this way
Two gallons of kerosene, one half-pound
of soap and one gallon of water. Dissolve
the soap in the water boiling hot, and
while hot pour into the kerosene and
rhurn for short time When used dilute
with ten gallons of water to each gallon of
the soap-and-kerosene mixture.
The kerosine emulsion has wide field
OF usefulness. 1t can be sprinkled on rose
bushes for the slugs; on currant bushes for
the currant worm; on cabbages early in
the season, for the cabbage worm; on ap-
pie trees for the tent caterpillar, and pro-
baby also for the codling moth, canker-
worm, etc. In general, this solution may
be used on any plant for the destruction of
any leaf-eating insect.
2. London Wherever apples are
raised ON large scale for marketing this
will recommend itself. One pound of the
powder is used with two barrels of water.
tits entirely insOluble in water, but is so
fine that it floats in the water with but
very little stirring. 1t is applied by force
pump with spray nozzle, the stream be-
ing forced up above the tree so as to fall
from above on to the blossoms. The
spraying should be done after the leaves
OF the blossoms fall, while the apple still
stands upright.
The solution is highly poisonous, and
the powder will remain on and in the
ground for long time. 1t will not be
safe to use it in any orchard where hogs
are allowed to run, and it is hardly safe
to use on trees under which children are
likely to play. 1t finds its most advan-
tageous use in those orchards where the
ground is kept plowed and cultivated.
Paris green can be used in the same way
as the London purple, but is more than
twice as expensive.
8. Saltpetre Solution-One tablespoon
full in a pail of water. A pint poured
around each hill of cucumbers or squashes
is very good for the plants and very bad
for the bugs, both striped and black,
which burrow at night in the earth about
the plants. Cut-worms are also said to
dislike earth treated with saltpetre. This
is a remedy which certainly would be
very useful to the plants, and if, as
is claimed, it destroys or keeps away in
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The saltpeter solution is useful to any
plant which is attacked by insects which
at any time burrow in the ground. 1t does
not appear to be wholly certain, however,
that it is as efficacious an insecticide as
could be wished.
The currant worm is said to be greatly
Inconvenience if the bushes are well
mulched with coal ashes. Probably i
some wood ashes were mixed with the
coal ashes, greater results would be OBJ.
tanned.
1t should be remembered that all appli.
cations intended to prevent the attacks OF
insects or to destroy insects already infect
ing plants, are very much more effacious
when used promptly. Delay is eminently
dangerous, since not only do insects for
the most part increase very rapidly, but
when young and their skins thin, as in
young Larvae it almost always is, many
remedies act directly through the skin
and accomplish very much more than
later, when the insects are larger and
stronger.