Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1919 — Ants on Peonies. [ARTICLE]

Ants on Peonies.

For a number of years many persons in various parts of the country have complained of ants destroying the buds on the peonies. To rid peonies of these ants, cut a circular piece of heavy paper or heavy cardboard, about two feet in diameter, and put a hole in the center just large enough to allow the stein or main stalks of the peony to pass through, and then slit from the center to one edge, enable you to place the circular rim of paper round the plant. Smear molasses on the surface of the cardboard, and then scatter a little arsenic powder over the sticky molasses. The ants will eat of the sweet as they go or come, and It will not be long until you have stopped the constant stream of destructive ants-from visiting the peony buds. In some localities similar trouble lias been experienced with ants on dahlias, and the same remedy may be successfully used. If a very thick solution of arsenate of lead is used with plently of molasses, it will do the-same work as the arsenic.- =========±==s==