Truck-Farming At the South : a Guide to the Raising of Vegetables for Northern Markets
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The numerous deterrent remedies recommended as ef- fective against the cabbage-worms, although many may Fig. 29. — SOUTHERN CABBAGE BUTTERFLY — Female. be distasteful or offensive to them, are all comparatively worthless. This is owing partly to the impossibility of their being made to reach every part of the plant haunted by the insect, particularly the under surface of the leaf, and the interior of the head. Among the proposed CABBAGE. 157 remedies are: red pepper, soot, lime, ashes, salt, su...lphur, solution of copperas, yeast, soap-suds, etc. Water heat- ed to one hundred and forty, or even to one hundred and sixty degrees, was at one time highly praised as an insecticide; but the same objection applies to it as to the others. Were it not hazardous to apply to the eatable por- tions of vegetables, like the cabbage, etc., poisons danger- ous to man, we would have an effective means in Paris green or London purple for the removal of these insects. The remedy for cabbage- worms, tested and recom- Fig.
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