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WEEV1L.—Keep seed in a cool place at all times after
harvesting. Fumigate once about a month after harvesting
. with bisulfid of carbon (1 ounce to each bushel of seed), and
again just before planting. See that none of the adult
beetles escape to the field from your storage-quarters.
» CURRANT. I
WORM.—Spray once or twice with powdered white
3 hellebore, two tablespoonfuls in an wooden bucket of water.
Watch for the first appearance of the worms and spray
promptly. A ‘ ‘
LEAF RUsT.——Spray with Bordeaux mixture as soon as
‘ the leaves are fully expanded, and again about August 1.
QOOSEBBRRY.
WORM._*TF€3t as diiecied for the currant worm. It is .
the same insect.
MILDEW.—Spray as soon as the leaves are out with
I Bordeaux mixture, or the self-boiled lime-sulphur wash.
Spray again in midsummer. I I -
A- _ GR/APE. 1
I APHIs.—Spray with the tobacco extract, 1 to 70, or else
with dilute coal-oil emulsion.
LEAF—HOPPER.— Spray with coal-oil emulsion, beginning
when the insects areyoung.
· LEAF BEETLES. —Spray young nursery plants with arsen-
I ate of lead, 3 pounds in 50 gallons of water. In the vine-
·, yard, use coal-oil emulsion, diluted.
i LEAF—ROLLER.*US€ arsenate of lead in the nursery. In
the vineyard the insect may readily be destroyed by hand,
and if attended to in season need not give much trouble.
A The arsenate of lead should only be used there early in the
season, if at all.
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