The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-15

pillars from crawling onto trees not infested. good poison spray is made by mixing pound of arsenate of lead to about 20 gallons of water. The main factor is promptness, be- cause 1t is difficult and expensive to control after bad infestation, and be- sides the tree will be lost unless something be done.
 Lice on Nnsturtiums
 Complaints are so numerous about small black louse or aphis that infests the under side of the nastur- tium foliage that it is considered ad- visable to give here a general idea of the remedies indicated to control this pest. The nasturtium aphis is a sucking insect and injures the plant by puncturing the leaves and stems and sucking the juices. It cannot be controlled by an arsenic spray or stomach poison because it consumes no foliage. It must be destroyed by some contact insecticide. Several simple and inexpensive remedies are effective, but they must be applied so as to reach the under side of the foliage. Tobacco dust is effective. A preparation known as 40 Dust" is excellent. Sulphur is good. A liouid spray of sulpho tobacco soap is a dead shot. Teaspoonful nicotine sul- phate to gallon of soap studs is an- other sure remedy. Strong soap studs of an ordinary laundry soap is very good. It may be necessary to repeat any treatment in four or five days. Watch out for the first appearance of this pest and give prompt treatment.
 Questions and Answers
 Q. have Johnson grass field infested with palma christi or castor oil plant and have heard that when cut with hay, renders the product poisonous and will kill stock when eaten by them. Is this fact? J. G. Q .Ashby.
 A. The poisonous principle in the castor oil plant is wholly confined to the seed and is due to the pres ence of ricin, which is entirely elim- mated in the manufacture of me- dicinal castor ol. There would be no danger whatever to the plants admixture to hay as long as no seed were present.
 Q. I am mailing you plant I pulled up in an oat field It has had beautiful blossoms. It has a poison taste. Please tell me what 1t is and if poisonous? R. A. B., Meridian. Mississippi.
 A. The plant is an annual species of larkspur and very poisonous. Dur ing the blooming period 1t loses much of its poisonous nature, but after wards the poison s acceutudated and grows stronger. Don't allow a sin gle plant on the place where stock uses, to go to seed and thus rid your self of 1t.
 o. There is a small brown bug on my ferns, adhering up and down the leaves, and the ants are bothering also. Please tell me what to do? Miss. R.. Talladega.
 A. It is not likely the ants are doing any harm but are after the insects. The brown bugs are kno VII as the terrapin scale. Wash or spray with carbolic soap, tobacco soap, or sulpho tobacco soap would be bet ter. Teaspoonful nicotine sulphate to a gallon of soap suds and wash or spray at three or four day intervals will destroy. After one or two ap- plications of either treatment, the bugs are weakened and are easily brushed off with soap and water.
 c. Please tell me what will Kill or keep weevils out of COW peas? Mrs. ", Heflin.
 A. Get from your druggist bisul- phide of carbon (high life). Place peas in tight barrel, box. can or stone jar, set a saucer on top of