A successful gardener knows his insects

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No. 178 STAG Jane 20, 1937.
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|. | A SUCCESSFUL GARDENER
a 4] 7 KNOWS HIS INSECTS

To protect garden flowers against pests, know the insects!
eating habits, advise entomologists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Some insects prefer solid food because they have mouth parts equipped for
biting or chewing plants. Others take their nourishment in liquid form because
their mouths are made for sucking plant juices.

The chewing insects include leaf-eating beetles, grasshoppers,
caternillars, and other wormlike forms. To combat these, entomologists sug
gest stomach poisons like arsenical sprays or dusts. The sucking pests such
as red spiders, aphids, scale insects, and mealybugs draw their food from
inside the nlant, so must be killed by nicotine or soap sprays or pyrethrum
or sulphur dusts, which suffocate or burn.

In small flower gardens, sprays or dusts are often unnecessary
because the insects or infested leaves may be picked off and destroyed. The
gardener who wears gloves may pick off many caterpillars and beetles, or the
leaves on which they are feeding, and drop them into a pail containing a little
Kerosene. When a plant is infested with a large number of leaf-eating beetles
or plant bugs, lay a large piece of cloth on the ground beneath it and shake
off the insects by tapping the plant with a stick. The insects that fall off
may be gathered up and dropped into kerosene. Gardeners will be wise to keep
a careful watch for folded or rolled-up leaves, or those tied together with

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webbing, for exterpalars are probably hidden inside.

Anyone wno is growing flowers this summer may have further facts
by writing for Farmers! Bulletin No. 1495, "Insect Enemies of the Flower Garden."
This bulletin is for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C.,
ee 5 cents.

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