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Now, that ni)i)lies to till these insects, and about the only 

 way that you can got ahead of thcni is to take them in the 

 winged state. The rose hug cannot ])e destroyed in any 

 other way that T know of. I have seen an api)le tree liter- 

 ally covered with them, so that you could not more than half 

 sec the leaves, and they are very destructive in vineyards. 

 There is where I have been brought in contact with them. 

 I never have had half as many of them as my neighbors. 

 They are local in their habits, and they stay in one locality, 

 unless they are carried forward by warm southwest winds. 

 They are lazy ; they do not fly well ; they want some encour- 

 agement ; they want something more than their wings : they 

 want to be propelled by the wnnd ; then they come down on 

 my vineyard, of which I have ten acres in one piece, and 

 they uniformly strike on the first row of vines in that vine- 

 yard, on the southwest side of it, and I find most of them 

 there. They come along just as the grape is blossoming, 

 somewhere from the 20th to the 25th of June. That is the 

 time they do us the most harm. They eat the buds before 

 they open, and they eat them after they open ; but after the 

 grape has got the size of a buckshot they do not trouble it 

 at all. There is but one way that I could ever find to get 

 rid of them, and that is to pick them off and put them into 

 water or kerosene. They will swdm around in the water all 

 night if you leave them there, and you must go around the 

 next day ; but it is a very safe way if you put them into the 

 stove and burn them up and are careful of the ashes. 



Mr. CusHMAN. In regard to the white grub, to which 

 reference has been made, I would say that my farm is par- 

 ticularly adapted to that worm. The soil is of a light, sandy, 

 warm nature, and the white grub seems to revel in it ; and 

 while I have studied in books all that I could read and learn 

 of its habits and its character, I never yet have been able to 

 find anything written of practical value to me in my efforts 

 to exterminate that pest. I have had a remedy of my own ; 

 and my only fear in telling you of the remedy is that you 

 will think it is too simple and too inexpensive, because you 

 all have it or ought to have it on your farms. Capt. Moore's 

 remedy, which was something new to me, will be better than 

 mine, because it provides for killing the beetle ; I have to 



