Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-05-11
GARDENERS MUST FIGHT INSECTS
 IN BACK YARDS
Entomologist Gives Advice as to Means of Combating
 Pests i.1 Gardens,

Do not let the insect pests ruin your garden and truck crops. Your vegetables are too valuable. Destroy these pests as soon as they appear" says Geo G. Becker, entomologist with the college of agriculture of the Uni Vefalty of Arkansas. Cut worms are pest controlled by using a poisoned bait consisting of three pounds of wheat bran with which has been thoroughly mixed two ounces of Paris green and one cup of cheap sugar. After mixing the Paris green and bran make the poisoned bran into a dough with the syrup, scatter this mixture around the hills where cut worms have been working, along fence rows where they usually | emerge
 Cabbage worms can be controlled by using applications of one ounce of arsenate of lead paste or half ounce of | the powder of arsenate of lead in one gallon of water. To this it is advis- able to add about one-fourth ounce of any kind of soap in order to make the solution stick to the cabbage leaves. Apply every 10 days until two weeks before using. If outer leaves are discarded there is no danger from the poison.
 "For potato bugs, dust the potato vlnes as often as necessary with a mixture of one part by weight, of Paris green "A parts of lime dust, or better than this, if one has the means of applying the poison in liquid spray, is a mixture consisting of one ounce of arsenate of lead paste, or half ounce of the powder and one fourth ounce of Paris green in a gal lon of water. This mixture should be applied about every ten days.
 Cucumber beetler, rather small and lemon yellow in color with three black stripes down the back, are usually a melons, cucumbers and related plants. They should be controlled by dusting with arsenate of lead or by spraying, using 1 1-2 pounds of powder or three pounds of paste and 50 gallons of wa ter. About two pounds of soap should be added to make the spray stick to ] the plants.
 "Plant lice should be controlled most conveniently by spraying with one of the nicotine products found on the market Black Leaf 4O' is the most common nroduct known in Arkansas.
 Farmers and gardners who have difficulty in controlling the pests which attack their crops should write to the state entomologist at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, for circulars which deal with these pests and their control. They will be sent free upon application"
 Information for Planting. | A crop information card has been worked out by w. c. Lassetter, act ing director of the extension division of the University of Arkansas, fo, those who may desire suggestions as to crops that may be safely planted for feed production this spring or sum. mer. This is no time to experiment We must plant only those crops which are known to be safe where reason able care is taken. Each family must plant such of these crops as will be needed to supply the farm. Follow ing are some of the suggestions offered for May:
 Corn: Any good native variety; 1( pounds per acre; seeded in checks A. inches each way or in drills p inches apart, or in drill six feet apart, witt peas or beans in rows between; covel half to one inch.
 Sorghum: Texas seaded variety;