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THE ECHO
April, Ijj!
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SUGGESTIONS OFFERED ON PREPARING
FOR GARDEN INSECTS AND DISEASES
Preparing Jt or Garden Insects
There are numerous insect pests
of garden vegetables. It is essential
to prepare for such pests well in
advance.
It is well to have a separate box
or kit for insecticides. In this insec
ticide kit should be the following:
Paris green, calcium arsenate, cryo
lite, and rotenone, for the chewing
insects. A supply of lime and dust
ing sulphur should also be available
for mixing with some insecticides.
For the sucking insects there should
be a supply of nicotine sulphate
(40%) and some pyrethrum in the
form of extract or dust. One of the
effective pyrethrum dusts is Pyro-
cide dust which may be used for
combatting a few of the insects
otherwise difficult to control.
Mexican bean beetle. To control
this pest on snap and lima beans, a
spray of cryolite should be used. Mix
1 ounce (or 9 level teaspoonfuls) to
one gallon of water. Spray thorough
ly so as to cover underside of leaves.
Several applications may be neces
sary to control this pest. Cryolite is
poisonous, be careful in using it.
After pods on snap beans are half
grown cryolite should not be used,
as a poisonous residue will be de
posited on the pods.
Rotenone dust (containing 0.5%
rotenone) should be used on snap
beans after pods are half grown.
This material is non-poisonous,
therefore safe to use on beans as
well as certain leafy vegetables. Ro
tenone is scarce, so conserve the
supply by following the above recom
mendations on beans.
Cabbage worms. Until head is half
grown use a mixture of Paris green,
one part, and hydrated lime, nme
parts, or calcium arsenate (undilut
ed.) When using Paris green, lime
mixture, mix ingredients together
thoroughly. Dust when dew is on
the plants and when air is calm. Af
ter head is half grown, use 0.5% ro
tenone dust to avoid poisonous resi
due of Paris green and calcium ar
senate.
Plant lice or aphids- Many garden
vegetables may be attacked by plant
lice. They are very tiny insects us
ually green in color and may be
found clustered on underside of the
leaves.
Nicotine sulphate (40%) is the
most satisfactory material to use to
control this pest. It may be used as
a spray (using two teaspoonfuls to
one gallon of soapy water) or as a
dust by mixing with lime.
For further information see your
county agricultural agent. Refer to
the “Vegetable Insect Control
Guide” for more detailed recom
mendations for combatting insects
on garden vegetables.
Controlling Plant Diseases
Home gardens frequently suffer
heavy losses from the ravages of
plant diseases.
Some disease-control practices for
reducing losses are briefly present
ed:
1. Good Growing Conditions:
Thoroughly prepared seed beds in
rich, well-drained soils give seedl
ings a better chance to withstand at
tacks of damping-off and other seedl
ing diseases.
2. Good Seed: Good seed, rela
tively free of seed-borne diseases
may be secured from reliable deal
ers. K seed are saved at home, they
should be taken from disease-free
plants producing good quality and
large yields.
3. Treated Seed: Some seed
houses sell seed treated with chemic
als to reduce losses from certain
diseases. Use treated seed when
available. Some seed can easily be
treated at home; examples are the
Semesan-Bel dip for control of black
rot and scurf of sweet potato; bich
loride of mercury soak for control of
leaf-spots and Anthracnose of pep
per, leaf blights of tomato, angular
leafspot and Anthracnose of cucum
bers; and the Semesan dust treat
ment to prevent damping-off of peas
and squash. For directions consult
your county agent or request Exten
sion Miscellaneous Pamphlet No. 52.
4. Resistant Varieties: Many dis
ease-resistant varieties of vegetables
adapted to North Carolina conditions
are available. For example, Wiscon
sin Ballhead, Wisconsin Hollander
No. 8, Marion Market, Jersey Queen,
All Head Select, Globe and others
are varieties of cabbage resistant to
the yellows disease. Rutgers, Prit
chard, Break-O-Day, Marglobe, Pan
American, Louisiana Gulf State, Il
linois Pride are varieties of tomato
showing fair to strong resistance to
Fusarium wilt. Consult county agent
for other varieties of disease-resist
ant vegetables and for those adapted
MINSTRE SHOW
Try-Outs
Monday, May 3, 1943
2:30 — 4:00 8:00 — 10:00
Visited Ecusta
Douglas Philip Debrabant of th®
Machine Shop, who spent a short
furlough in Brevard recently,
us a visit and returned that eve0‘
ing to cut a figure at the square
dance. He has been in service
three months and three weeks of
that time was spent in anti-air^
craft training. He is now stationed
at Great Lakes Naval Training
Base. ^‘Rabbi” told us something
about the entertainments arrang’
ed especially for service men. One
night during which both Kate
Smith and Bob Hope were enter'
taining the boys, Kate posed f®''
a picture with three favored so^
in either arm. And thus “Rabbi
found himself surrounded. A®
szfid, “Kate sure does one swell joB
of cheering the boys up.”
Countless testimonials have bee®
written attesting the benefits
kind has derived from tobacco, 2,^
poets have extolled its virtue
outbursts of great lyricism, not
least of whom was Charles Kingsl^y^
who wrote: “A lone man’s
panion, a bachelor’s friend, a hung^
man’s food, a sad man’s cordial,
wakeful man’s sleep and a cbiw
man’s fire .... there’s no her
like unto it under the canopy
heaven.”
TIMEY WARTIME SUGGESTIONS
Vftll Strategy of this war, just as much as the generals.
lUu way you buy and the way you spend, the way you think and
way you act, set the way of this war. Your dollars talk loud to Ameri*^^
industry. Make them shout for guns, not gadgets.
Mean make heroes of our boys in uniform, or you can make marty®
You can send them to battle with guns and tanks, planes and
or you can send them with bare hands to face Axis bullets. Take your
Here’s your choice, between Don’t and Do.
DON’T
1.
i»t«
selfish voice says a bit of metal
more or less won’t matter. Rem
ember that your gadget may cheat
a boy in battle of a gun. Weigh his
need against yours.
2 Don’t figure there’s time enough
, later to buy Bonds while now
you spend all you get, as fast as it
comes in, on bargains.
3 Don’t spend for glamor today
, what you’ll need for living to
morrow, A budget padded with ex
travagance now is the prelude to a
skimpy budget in the future.
4 Don’t buy from the profiteers,
, the bootleggers, the “black
marketeers.” Buying from them
wrecks rationing, boosts prices and
breaks the law, cheats you and the
boys at the front, and helps nobody
but Hitler and his henchmen.
DO
IPut every penny you can
« War Bonds and Stamps. Boi^,
and Stamps buy munitions,
tions are a matter of life-and-d®^
to MacArthur’s men in the
2 Get after all the wage-earo®^
« in your family to sign up
ever they work for Pay Roll or
Savings, and see that they stick ^
3 Write Bonds in your
, book, and sign up at the ba .
for bond deductions from your 
count. Bonds gather interest,
pay you back handsomely in 10
Right now they fight inflation. .
4 Play fair on rationing, and
, not a penny more than
Government top price wherever y^
shop. Ask for your change in ^ ■
gl-
paste the Stamps in .v,
enoue,
Stamps,
bum, and when you get
Stamps, exchange them for
at the Post Office or Bank.
to local conditions.
5. Sanitation: Sanitary practices
help prevent the introduction and
multiplication of disease-producing
parasites in the soil: (a) Practice a
garden site rotation to reduce losses
from root knot, wilts and other dis
eases. If not convenient, rotate
crops in the garden, (b) Do not
place diseased plants in manure or
compost piles, (c) Remove diseas
ed plants when noticed to pre
vent spread of the disease
to healthy ones, (d) Plow un
der remains of plants soon after har
vesting. (e) Do not work the gar
den when plants are wet. (f) Keep
weeds down—some of them harbor
diseases that attack vegetables.
6. Dusting and Spraying: Some
times it becomes necessary to con
trol leaf diseases by dusting or spray
ing such crops as cucumber, egg
plant, pepper, potato and tomato.
Where local conditions necessitate
this practice, consult your county
agent or write the Extension Plant
Pathologist, State College.
Echo Contributions
Due May 19th
VICTORY GARDEf'
Straus
CANTO I
Harrison, Kappers and
night
Took off to study a farm, ,
Of seeds and colors and vegetal
bright . M
They’d rather leave them
barn.
CANTO II to
But they’d promised themselves
plow and to plant,
To sweat in the heat of the sun, y.
We laugh and we giggle at
wrinkled brows
What say, some kid—eh fun?
LAMENT
Why ever did we get into such
of Bennett’s
By
the charms
talk?
les
Some day they’d get to bat and
licks ..pe
But meanwhile, the chalked
they must walk.
To Whom It May Concern:
The invincible team of Straus, Kappers
Harrison wish to inform all concerned
concerned) tfiat they will be delighted
taking orders now for surplus garden pro
diic®-
Cflcr®'
Sales are in charge of Walter Straus, ^ ^ |t
tary and Treasurer, and it is necessary
be understood by our future customers
aren't in this business for our health
that
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