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TOBACCO AS AN INSECTICIDE.
For some years I have been using
and recommending tobacco dust as
as an all-round insect destroyer. I
use it in the greenhouse for lice, in
the open ground for the cucumber
beetle, plant lice and worms of all
kinds, and sometimes in the hen
house tor lice, etc. It is surely one
of the swiftest of insecticides we can
apply, almost or fully equal to
buhach. If sifted or scattered over
currant bushes the currant bushes
will be free from the pest within an
hour less. If blown into the heart
of cabbage plants it means the end
of the green worm.
Applied in the same way to the
nests of eaterpillers and the trees
all around us at this time are full
of them-especially in the morning
or evening, when the worms are all
at home, it will clear them out for
good in less than an hour. In short,
I hardly know what worm or soft
bodied insect the contact with to
bacco dust would not speedily kill.
I believe it will even put an end to
the potato bug. It is distasteful to
many hard-shell beetles also, as
may be seen by the fact that with
heavy applications we can drive
away the cucumber beetle and per
haps the sqash bug.
The flea beetle, unfortunately, is
not so easily conquered, even if it
does not like the tobacco smell.
Surely tobacco dust must be con
sidered a most excellent insecticide,
and it is not expensive. In some
cases, perhaps, the sweepings of
numerous cigar factories in cities
will do, and can be had for the
hauling. I think every soil tiller
should keep it on hand. I have
usually applied tobacco dust with
the bare hands, scattering it freely
over the bushes and plants, and
around cucumber, melon and squash
vines even an inch on the ground.
The stuff is worth nearly the full
price asked for it, $3 a barrel or so,
as a fertilizer, and I have not felt
the necessity of using it in a par
ticularly economical manner.
For cabbage and caterpillar nests
hand bellows of some kind are al
most a necessary, as we want to
blow the dust well among the leaves
and webs. The ordinary cheap
hand bellows offered for sale by
seedsmen and hardware stores will
do very well for cabbage.
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.
E. Messerly, of fertile Wenatchee,
has ordered a Montieth evaporator
for the purpose of taking care of his
crop of prunes. The expense and
RANCTTK AND RANGE.
risk of shipping east is too great to
make the business safe. The evap
orator will have a capacity of two
tons per every 24 hours. His or
chard will produce between So and
100 tons of green fait this year.
Tendrils are vine supports, and
the rule is that growing vines thrive
letter if fastened. Garden peas,
sweet peas, the grape, the clematis,
etc., all thrive better if the tendrils
are amply stayed and are not sway
ing and clutching at the air.
The tendril is an abortive flower
or fruit. Kxpert gardners remove
the surplus by pinching them off.
It aids in the formation of more
perfect bloom and fruit.
From now until September is the
time for budding the plum, cherry
and peach, commencing with the
wood that ripens first.
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