Bulletin Reports Of Experiments Various Insecticide Subtances Chiefly Upon Insects Affecting Garden Crops

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Excerpt from Reports of Experiments With Various Insecticide Substances, Chiefly Upon Insects Affecting Garden Crops, Made Under the Direction of the Entomologist Possibly those who have experimented have, through fear of injuring the plants, hesitated to use water cold enough or have used it too sparingly and in the cooler part of the day. In making the discovery I was too late to avail myself of caution about the safety of the plant, and was compelled to solace myself with the idea that if the cold had injured and killed them I was not in a worse predicament than before using the cold water, for if I had killed the plants I had only anticipated a few days the certain result of the pests. Perhaps the vermin are of a tougher habit in a warmer climate, and I would not hesitate to reduce the temperature of the water another degree or two and be sure of the top degree of the day to apply it. Several persons have told me that they used it last season with success, and one person that he had not been troubled this season, not yet having discovered any worms; but until recently but few persons in our vicinity grew more than a hundred plants. This season I have noticed not a few acres planted with cabbages. Please have your tests made properly and in the right time, and I think you will succeed. It may seem too simple to be of much benefit, and scarcely worth the trial, and single efforts may fail for want of a little care. Let them act as if there should be no such thing as failure, and they will succeed. Drench more frequently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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