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I INSECTS ON TOMATO PLANTS. j
W. Tuilier, Southern Cross, writes:
1 hare a few tomato bushes in my
garden, and hare teen doing weil
until about a wek ago. At present
the leaves are covered with millions
of little small green flies, and they
seem to me to be getting the best
of tlie toma toe«, and plants seem
like dying. Could you let me know
how to destroy them, and if they
wall destroy everything else tfiiat
come in their way?
j Jr. would hr.Te been very much more
: satisfactory if you had sent a sprig of
I the tomato plant with the insects on it;
? one could 'then toa ve decided the nature
? of the pest. ,My guess is that the -plants
! are affected with aphis and the proper
1 )>lan is to «pray wi th kerosene emulsion
The following is A reeipe for making the
emulsion:
Kerosene Emulsion.
. Ingredients:
Soft water, 1 pint, or 1 gallon.
Hard good -soap. 2oz. or Hb.
Kerosene. 2 pints or 2 gallons.
LMeruod: Thoroughly dissolve the soap I
in boiling water and add it boiling hot j
to the kerosene. ("hwii The mixture vio- !
lently by means of a force pump or sy- i
ringe until in, tire or ten 'minute«'U
form» a thick cream-like emulsion, winci1
thickens into a jelly on cooling and ad-
heres without oiliness to the «irface of
a glass. The agitation must be violent,
and thc hotter tue mixture thc easier the
emulsion is formed.
¡For use, add one part emulsion to froto
4 to liO parts water, according to thé *
mature of the peat to be dealt, with. .For
aphis one to 35 will do if it _be applied
with force, and the application is re-
peated at intervals of a few days. For
scale insects one part to four or five of
I water is recommended.
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