Some Insect Destroying Recipes.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 4

Some Insect Destroying Recipes.

As yea* by year the -army of insects injurious to fiel I, orchard, and garden crops increase, The FAJOscr. cannot too often repeat directions of proved efficacy for their destruction, at -tike same time calling attention to now roraodies that may be proposed. ■ The following may be relied on as useful remedies against the insects named. We had -several inquiries las I summer with respect to cabbage caterpillars. The best, and perhaps only satisfactory means of dealing with this pest, is to dust the cabbages with powdered pyrethrum (Dalmatian in.^eol powder) through a bellows " duster."' The powder must be blown forcibly on tho plants. It can be got fresh and good from the Buhac Manufacturing Company, Stockton, _ California.' For plant lice and lni&ehievous aphides use a kerosene emulbion mode as follows:— One pint of kerosene to two pints of soft soap. Mix thoroughly, and dilute with one gallon of water. This emulsion should be thrown on the infected plants with an " atomiser" to make it certainly effective. For the brown chafer beetle \Odon!ria Zcalaiulica) make a solution of one teaspoonful of Paris green to a large pailof water and spray it over the trees they inFest. For the codlin moth mix one pound of Paris green or London purple with 100 gallons of water, and with a force pump and spray-no/-/lo throw over the apple and pear tiees. Do not spray the trees until the fruit is the size of small marbles. It will do more good then and will not destroy the bees, co useful to orchardists in fertilizing fruit tree blossoms. For lice on fowls use the pyrethrum powder, nibbing the feathers the wrong way and blowing the powder in forcibly with a " duster." To kill lice on hoises or cattle take one half pcund of tobacco and T>our one third of a pail of very hot water on it ; then vith a sponge rub thoroughly over every part of the animal.