Spray with poisoned resin-lime mixture if the plants are young; after heads have formed use kerosene emulsion or hot water, preferably the latter.
CABBAGE ROOT MAGGOT
Protect the plants with disks of tar paper and wet the soil with Paris green solution or emulsion composed of one pound of soap, one gallon of boiling water and one pint of crude carbolic acid diluted with forty parts of water, using sufficient to soak the soil several inches.
CELERY BLIGHT
Spray with Bordeaux mixture once in two weeks, until plants are half grown.
CUCUMBERS
For the striped beetle, use tobacco dust about the hills. Spray plants and ground with kerosene emulsion. Wrap rags saturated with kerosene about sticks and stick in center of hills to repel bugs with the odor. Better still, protect hills with frames of wire screening or mosquito netting. Spray with Bordeaux-arsenate of lead every two weeks.
SQUASH BUG
Hand pick the first bugs that appear and find and destroy all eggs. Dust with Bug Death. Protect with wire cloth.
BLIGHT