Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04
ENEMIES OF CABBAGE FAMILY

Have you ever noticed IN August the
/ sudden appearance of swarms of white
4 but terflies? Have you eyer driven
through II farming district and noticed
I the roads full OF them' Sometimes
i they are so numerous that it seems asN
though they could not fly away before
the horses hoofs and the carriage.
/ wheels have crushed them. Last Au-
gust saw such sight. says writer
4 in the Garden Magazine There We're
tail Indigenous on either side of the
road. but no one needed to tell me
4 what was behind those hedge rows The
I butterflies announced that, and soon an
Il opening showed me the cabbage and
a cauiiioWer--;icreS of them. 1t Is too
bad that these pretty white creatures
4 should have such troublesome children.
4 Really, they are enough to drive one
insane. You know them. too. if you
\ have ever had cabbage, caulinoWer,
kale or the like i'm your garden-little
green soft creepers. Noracious children
that grow into big green soft creeperS
by eating great holes i'm the vegetable
leaves. These are imported creatures.
and wish t.ley, too, had stayed home.
| our own worm is BLUSH with yellow
stripes. though the butterflies can
scarcely be distinguished from one an
other.
one pound of fresh pyrethrum pow
der, which has been mixed with five
pounds OF flour, put into II tight vessel
or tim box and kept for twenty-four
hours. then busted into the leaves at
nightfall, may discourage these creep
crs. The other poison powders previ
ously described may also be used, and
have heard of sp-inkllig salt on the.
leaves. which is said to cause the worm
To melt away" when ii touches him.
hut have never tried this. | fear there
would be damage to plants unless eX-
traordinary care We're taken. There is
4 one thing, however. which will settle
/ these crawlers, and their cousins. the
/ lo"pers, also. That is the resin lne
! mixture combined with paris green
and bordeaux. The cabbage (also eau
/ liilower and BRUSSELS sprouts) should
4 he sprayed thoroughly with this twice,
once before the white butterflies APP
pear. and again i'm three weeks or so,
being careful. however, not to spray
Icaulii"wer after the flower has set
/ The cabbage plusia is as fond of that
I vegetable as our friends from DeutSch-
1 land. His mother is II dark-gray moth
| with u silver mark on each wing (not
stcrlins), and he is pale green. translu-
| cent with paler stripes from head to
tail and n-ore like the measuring worm.
/ He goes right into the heart of things
| and can riddle n head of cabbage thor
/ oughly in short order.
The poor cabbage goes lame. gets the
club root Ga swelling of the root, and
Suecunbs to 1t in a short while. Cauli-
Hover turnps and other members OF
the cabbage family also have this pc
culiimly named disease, and when 1t APP
pears, the only thing to do is to cease
/ growing them and buy these Vegetables
4 for two years or more, until the germ
has been starved out of the soil.
If the onions turn yellow, you may
know the inaggot is at their roots
| spray The lower stem and the soil with
i Kerosene emulsion. If this fails YOU
would better pull the injured plants
4 and burn them. These creatures, which
are the larvae OF a brown fly. also in
fest cabbage and cauliilower, and the
same remedy may be applied.
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