The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-29
Cabbage Neutrality-suspicious. Pow
der.

The two principal insect enemies of the
quin bug and the cabbage butterfly. or
course the cutworm is third enemy that
sometimes does a great deal of injury to
the crop. AS the cabbage is a money
crop with many persons in the South, it is
important that all who grow the vegeta-
bles should know just how TO protect the
crop in the surest and cheapest manner.
Whenever these insects are abundant it
is almost impossible TO grow late crops of
cabbage, unless a steady and vigorous war
is made upon them. Both of these insects
appear very early in the spring and it is
great gain to destroy as many of the
first brood as possible This first brood
are comparatively small in number to
come on later from the second and third
broods in May and June. Both of the
insects also are to some extent migratory
during season, but we have found II to
be the case that where the first brood that
appears in any particular garden or farm
is thoroughly exterminated there is very
little injury done by either of these in
sects that year.
Wherever any plants of the "Brassica"
family are left growing in the garden dur
ing the winter plants such as cabbage,
kale, mustard, or even ruta-baga, the first
appearance of the insects Will be obserV-
ed on these plants, or in the plat where
they grew. If there are any harlequin
bugs about they will be found on these
plants and can readily be destroyed be-
fore they propagate themselves. The but
terfly of the cabbage worm does not US
ually put in an appearance before March
and the destruction of one of these then
means the destruction of thousands of
that UOn1H
June if the female fly was allowed to live.
These butterflies are, when few in num-
bers, easily killed with a brush or caught
with a net, But to destroy the butterfly
in a wholesale way IT is only necessary
to have a few mustard plants in full bloom
in April. This attracts the flies" for
some distance While lowering over the
plant it is very easy with a small pow
der bellows to kill every enc about the
plant by busting them with pyrethrum
powder, known also as Persian insect pow
der Getting on the windward side of the
plant a few puffs of The bellows in the di-
rection of the plant scatters the fine pow
der in such a way as to touch every but
terfly with a little of it-enough to pro-
duce death in the course of an hour.
Fresh pyrethrum powder can now be
had at retail from 30 to % cents per pound
and its is by all odds the safest and most
effective insect destroyer that can be
had. For destroying insects in the dwell
ing, in the stable, or in the garden there
is nothing else equal to it. 1t is only pois-
onouS to insects so it is the safest insecd-
eide we can use on such vegetables as
cabbage, lettuce, celery or tomatoes.
If every gardener and housekeeper would
only avail themselves, 10 the extent that
they should, of this insect exterminator,
we could soon rid the earth of most Of the
pernicious or injurious insects.
With very little expense and with only
a little labor garden plants can be pro-
tected, the dwelling freed from pests of
flies mosquitoes, gnats, fieas, bedbugs,
reaches, etc, the stables and poultry
houses kept free of flies, lice, mites, etc.
and a vast amount of comfort secured
where during our long summer there is a
vast amount of discomfort