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go down under a very small dose. I will give in full later the par- 

 ticulars, but the result of the experiments shows that we can safely 

 apply a very large quantity of salt to our crops, and so kill all 

 grubs, cut- worms and other enemies, and add a cheap fertilizer/ 

 acting at the same time as g, helper in weeding. — ,/. V. H. Nott. 



PAEIS GKEEN" FOK CUKCULIOS. 



A correspondent of the Canadian Horticulturist describes 

 the result of his experiments with spraying apricot trees with 

 Paris Green. A teaspoonful of the poison was mixed with a pail- 

 ful of water, and thrown over the trees with a Whitman pump, 

 three times in one week. He says : ''My apricots are now as 

 large as plums, and not a mark upon them ; and by searching, I 

 have found but two plums thus treated stung by the curculio on 

 my ten trees. In former years hy this time, plums and apricots 

 were falling in perfect showers, and very few of either fruit es- 

 caped." It is not probable that tJie extremely thin coating of Paris 

 Green on the young fruit would prevent the beetles from inserting 

 their ovipositors, and it must therefore have ojDerated in some way 

 on the newly hatched and sensitive larv®. Tlie experiment is 

 worth repeating. The rains would wash off every vestige of the 

 poison long before the fruit could ripen. 



We have now to record what we have proved by experience to be 

 a more effectual method of ridding land of cut-worms than any of 

 those hitherto proposed. It is, in brief, the use of poisoned balls 

 of any succulent plant, a method which we successfully used in 

 Missouri in 1875. One of our most valued correspondents. Dr. A. 

 Oemler, of Wilmington Island, near Savannah, Ga., has long- 

 fought cut-worms by trapping them under leaves and grass. To 

 make use of his own words : "My mode of dealing with cut- 

 worms of late years has been to remove them from the held before 

 the crop to be jeopardized is up or the plants are put out. 



By placing cabbage leaves and bundles of grass along the rows 

 of watermelon hills four years ago, I caught, by hunting them 

 daily, 1,533 worms on about a quarter of an acre, before the seed 

 came up, and lost but a single melon plant. On one occasion I 

 captured, one morning, fifty-eight of all sizes under a single turnip 

 leaf, and my son found fifteen at the root of a single small cabbage 

 plant." A year or so ago we wrote Dr. Oemler that his remedy 

 would be much improved in point of economy of labor, if he 

 poisoned his traps before setting them, or, in other words, if he 

 sprinkled his cabbage leaves or grass, or other foliage used for this 



