The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-28
DIRECTIONS FOR FIGHTING INSECTS
 AND FUNGUS DISEASES OF PLANTS
SOCIAL SERVICE DEpARTMENT By MRS. SIDNEY N. ULLMAN

TOW poured into a barrel together and thoroughly mixed. Strain the mixture while pouring into the spray pump. The mixture is now ready for spraying on the foliage of diseased plants. Any desired quantity of the above mixture may be prepared if the proper proportions are pre- served.
 Formula "A combined insecticide and fungicide known as poisoned bordeaux mixture: Paris green, 14 pound; lump lime, pounds: water, 90 gallons.
 Prepare as for Formula 1; then make thin paste of the Paris green with water and add to the solution and mix well.
 Formula 3-Paris green Wet (poisonous
 nsecticide): Paris green, to ounces, auicklime. pounds water. 50 gallons.
 Slake the lime in a small quantity of water, sprinklng in the Paris green grad ually; then add the balance of the water
 Formula 4-Paris green: Dry poisonous insecticide) Paris green, l ounce; flour or lime. 1 pound
 Mix thoroughly and dust lightly on the leaves of plants when the dew is on the leaves.
 Formula 5. Kerosene Emulsion (ccn- tact insectieide for lice, scales, etc.)
 Hard soap, shaved fine, half pound wa ter, one gallon; Kerosene oil, gallons Dissolve the soap in boiling water remove rom ire lu HilHultSf duIlf < which time it should change te creamy white mass. Keep this as a stock solu- ton, using one part to eight parts ol water for plant lice. For scale insects use one part of stock solution to four parts of water The stronger solution should be applied only when the trees are in dormant condition, Formula 6. Sulpho Tobacco Soar | Ccontact insecticide for lice, scales etc.) | Dissolve three ounce cake of Sulpl1o- Tobacco soap (oan be bought ready pre- pared at seed stores) in 11a gallons ot
 hot water. When cool apply the solutlor
 as a wash or spray to the leaves of af. 1 fected plants.
 | Formula [. Lead Arsenate Past, 1 tpoisonous insectieide): Mix thorough i ly two even teaspoonfuls of the. pastt with one gallon of water and spray of plants infested with chewing insects Use from two to three pounds to 5t gallons of water. Lead arsenate in tit dry powdered form may be dusted pur, on most plants.
 following calendar is designed to fur l nish the amateur gardener with som, concise information regarding the us, l of plant pest remedies. l Beans-Striped Beetle: Spray witt formula as soon as plants are up. Be | peat applications every 10 days unti 1 blossoms appear.
 Cabbage, Collards, Cauliflower-Cab l bage Worms: Dust with Paris greei ! mixture, as per formula 3; while tn, l dew is on the plants.
 l Aphis 1ice)-Spray with formula }
 using one gallon of stock solution t, eight gallons of water. Formula vii
 serve the purpose also. l Harlequin Bug-Sow an oeoasiona
 TOW of radishes or kale as a catch crop When the bugs collect on the catcl
 crop, spray with pure kerosene
 Eggplant-Potato Beetle: See pota toes.
 Melons, Squash. Cucumbers-Blight Spray with formula when vines be
 gin to run. Repeat application abou once every two weeks until crop i
 mature.
 Aphis tlice)-Spray with formula
 as soon as lice appear using one gal Ion of stock solution to eight gallon Of water. If the plants are very badl infested, destroy them, in order to pre- vent the multiplication of the insects