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PLANT EXPERT
TELLS HOW TO
FIGHTJINSECTS
By F. F. Rockwell.
How often have you seen a perfect
blossom, which you have perhaps been
■watchfully waiting for weeks, come to
maturity only to be disfigured, if not
destroyed, by some pernicious visitor
to your garden. Or you have careful
ly set out and tended some particular
ly fine variety of a favorite flower,
through to the early stages of growth,
only to discover some day that the
leaves are showing fine white spots
snd curling up, and find on close
inspection, after the damage is done,
that thousands of little green plant
lice whose presence you had never sus
pected. was the cause of it.
The lover of flowers is often dis
couraged by the number of new bugs
worms and beetles which turn up.
There seems to be something to at
tack every plant that grows, and as
soon as one has got the better of one
trouble another one appears.
Success in the war again worms and
buys, however, as in everything else,
is largely a matter of “knowing how.’
The great majority of the insects at
tacking your flowers, or flowering
shrubs, or fruits, can be controlled
by two simple remedies. That may
sound “so easy” as to seem suspic
iously like a patent medicine adver
tisement —but it is a fact. No garden
er can, however, hope to be successful
in fighting the garden pest until two
definite things have been learned.
Two Tilings To Learn.
First: To become familiar enough
with the various insects first as to be
able to tell what class or type they
belong to, so that the proper material
can be used against them.
Second: To watch constantly and
carefully to detect the first sign of
trouble, and to be prepared to act im
mediately.
Ninety per cent, of the insects at
tacking your flowers belong to one of
the two general classes of eating in
sects or chewing insects. When some
new pests appear in your garden, the
first thing you want to determine is
ho<w he takes his meals. If he eats
holes in the leaves, petals or flower
buds of the plants, then it will be pos
sible to kill him with an internal poi
son. The most effective of the inter
nal poisons, and the most convenient
to use under any general conditions, is
arsenate of lead. This may be ob
tained in either paste or powder form.
It is mixed with cold water, accord
ing to direct ions, to make poison spray
that is effective against eating or
chewing insects. Calcium arsenite, a
light white poowder, is also mixed
with water to make an effective arse
nate poison spray. Either of these
materials will leave a slightly notice
able white deposit on the foliage,
which some particular gardeners ob
ject to. Paris green, which is an
other arsenate poison, does not leave
any deposit; but it is not as effective,
washes off more quickly, and is not so
safe to use, as the foliage may be
burned if the spray mixture is mixed
to strong. Either of these poisons
must be applied to the plants to be
protected when the bugs or worms ti
be fought first appear; that is, the
poison must be applied in advance to
whatever they are expected to feed
on.
Learn This. Too.
As the sucking insects which in
clude the various forms of plant lice
or aphids, are not affected by arsenate
of lead, paris green or any other inter
nal poison spray. It gardeners would
only learn this simple thing it would
save many hours of work, many plants
jtnd many dollars each season
The sucking insects get their nour
ishment from inside of the leaves or
stems of the plants. Although they
may appear at first to be doing little
damage, they are really much more in
jurious than most of chewing insects.
Unless immediate steps to fight them
are taken they are likely' to ruin the
entire plant or bed in a short time.
While many things have been recom
mended for the control of plant lice,
scales and sucking insects, the one
thing which has proved the most con
venient and the most efficient under
ordinary conditions is nicotine sulph
ate. forty per cent strong. This is put
out under various trade names such as
“Black Leaf Forty.” Nicotine extract
containing as little as twelve per cent
nictoine with other ingredients, are
effective but the brands containing
forty per cent being stronger requires
less to make a good quality of spray
material and are really cheaper, al
though they cost more per ounce or
per pint. To use they need merely to be
mixed with cold water. On some plants
especially those with smooth shiny
foliage, it may be necessary to add. a
small amount of soap to the spray to
make it spread and stick better. One
teasponnful of forty per cent nictotine
sulphate to the gallon of water will
make a strong enough spray to control
aphids, scales, etc.
The Use of Nicotine.
Nicotine is called a “contact poison.’
In other words to be effective it must
be applied directly to the insects to Ire
controlled. There is no use putting it
on the surface of the plant in advance
as si done with arsenate of lead and
other "internal” poisons. As the plant
aphids and other sucking insects gen
erally work on the under surface of
the leaves, in applying nicotine spray
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’’ for the co intrv, an I 1 am
wondering what important things* j
we have forgot'cn to pack—gen- i
c.ally it’s coiue pet article of '
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essence ot being discovered
j< st when he waj'lt most to wear
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Jeanne ton.gr., quite alone, she
p omised, so . •.<ait have to both- j
C’ about dro’.'-'n. ; a.I the same I I
s' all wear my afternoon gown
going out m machine when
otherwise I would have worn a
serge suit. This gown is of black
• satin, very smart in my opinion
the cuffs and the collar b- ing
edged by a single line of small j
cut-bronze beads. Two folds of
satin hang from either side of
the front, under the collar, and
passing under the narrow belt
meet just above the knees, joined
to a beaded tassel. Down the back
hangs a panel cut very' wide at
top. fastened to the neck over the
collar and ending in a point at
the hem of the skirt, also weight
ed by a tassel.
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it is desirable to use a spray with con- '
siderable force, and also with an angle
or side outlet nozzle so that the under
surface of the foliage can easily be
reached. If the insects have become
numerous enough so that some of the
leaves are tightly rolled or curled up,
and the insects cannot be reached with 1
a spray, pick off and burn all such
leaves carefully before spraying.
Where the plants are badly infested
it may be necessary to repeat this
spray two or three times at intervals
of a few days to clean the plant thor
oughly. Applying clear cold water with ,
considerable force twelve hours or so
after spraying will also help to clean
the plant. Nicotine suplhate rightly
used is absolutely sure death to aph-,
ids and other similar insects when it
is brought into direct contact with
them. So you can keep your plant clean,
if you just do the job thoroughly,
enough.
Root Maggot and Borers.
Some of the insects attacking plants
and flowers—though fortunately not
many of them —work in the roots in
the soil, or inside of the stems and
stalks of the plants themselves. The
latter are called “borers.” Their pres
ence is indicated by wilting of the ops
top of the stalk at which they are wmrk
of stalks at which they are at work
ting forth imperfect leaves or in the
case of ornamental trees or shrubs
through discoloration of the bark and
usually a small hole at which a saw
dust like deposit appears.
With fruits and perennials, cutting
off and burning the infested top is the
simplest remedy. With fruit and orna
mental trees the borers may be dug
out with a sharp knife blade or reach
ed and gilled with a stiff copper wire.
When plants wilt or “do not act
right,” without any apparent cause it
is time to suspect some root worms or
root maggots are at work, his can only
be determined by taking up one of the
affected plants. Then the affected plant
should be taken up carefully with the
roots and burned. If not fatally injured
they can be put back and reset, espe
cially if the large white grub has caus
ed the trouble. Root maggots in the
soil can be killed with the use of bi
sulphide of carbon. This is a liquid
w'hich, when exposed to the air forms
a gas that is heavier than air and will
circulate through the soil. To use it.
make a small hole a few inches deep
into the root of the plant, and pour
in several drops of the carbon bisul
phide, and close up the hole quickly.
For effective protection of your gar
den you should keep constantly on
hand a quantity of arsenate of lead
or calcium arsenate, and also forty
per cent nicotine sulphate. The arsen
ite of lead may be combined with sung
acide as in the case of preparations
containing both Bordeaux mixture
and arsenate of lead, like Pyrox. Bor
deaux-Lead, etc.
Look over your plants carefully ev
ery few days for the first sign of
trouble from injurious insects. It will
take only a few minutes, but it may
be the means ot saving some of your
most precious possessions. “A pint of
spray in time saves nine gallons.”
4,370 CONVICTS I
ARE HANDLED BY i
STATE IN YEAR
ATLANTA. June 4.—A total of 4,370
prisoners were handled by the prison
commission of Georgia, according to a
report which will be made to the gen
eral assembly when it meets this
month. The total number of prison
ers on hand the first of last year were
3.406. During the year there wrere
755 committments; 207 recaptures;
702 discharges; 534 escapes; 162 pa
. roles; 117 deaths; seven returned for
new' trials; two pardoned; two deliv
ered to sheriffs.
The prisoners range in age from 10
Ito 84 years. A majority are between
i the ages of 17 and 31 years. The crimes
| for which they are serving are va
■ riously distributed, there being 965 for
I murder; 551 for burglary; 408 for
i manslaughter; 213 for attempt to mur
der; 190 for larceny; 19 for making j
whisky and 13 for bigamy.
The commission has recommended I
the enactment of an indeterminate
sentence law, facilities for the treat
ment of persons addicted to the drug
habit and provision for training youth
ful offenders committed to the state
reformatory.
New Bar President
Some Hand Shaker
ATLANTA, June 4. —Luther Z. Ros
ser, distinguished Atlanta lawyer, is
today nursing a sore right arm -nd
bruised fingers. No, he hasn’t been in
a fight. He has been shaking hands, I
many hands, hands of poor and rich fl
alike, for it seems that almost every 9
body in his home town wanted to con- I
gratulate him on the honor of being 3
elected president of the Georgia Bar j
association.
Mr. Rosser stayed over at the an- $
nual meeting of the lawyers at Tybee ij
Island and has just got back to his fl
office. He started across town and E
had not gone more than a few steps H
until business men, lawyers, doctors
and a hundred and one citizens began ■
giving him the congratulatory hand, 3
He knows everybody and everybody a
knows him and he simply had to shake fl
hands and keep at it the live-long day. 9
Mr. Rosser doesn’t hand out a flabby j
five-fingers when he greets a friend fl
He shakes hands. He uses every finger fl
and the muscles of his arm go in ac- fl
tion. No wonder, then, arm and hand fl
grew limp and tired and sore by night, fl
“Not since the days of Billy Sunday 1
when handshaking was an accompan- fl
iment of the “trail-hitting” perform- fl
ances, and even Billy had several as- fl
sistants, has one man grasped as many 9
hands in one day as Luther Rosser &
did yesterday,” said a lawyer who ■
went to the bar association meeting I
and was in company with Mr. Rosser fl
all day yesterday. “Some of our wor- fl
thy candidates for office may learn fl
something in watching Rosser hand- 9
shake; it is peculiarly his own and u
a clincher of good will and apprecia- fl
tion.” he added. a
Mr. Rosser was unanimously elect- I
ed president of the Georgia Bar asso- J
ciation at its joint meeting with the fl
South Carolina Bar association at fl
Tybee. He was not a candidate for the I
office, but lawyers over the state have
been waiting for an opportunity to
honor him, and they picked out some
thing in line with his profession, which
is his hobby as well as his vocation.
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