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ants ran up the trunk and out on the limbs, thence on to the leaves 

 of the tree where the filthy worm was at work and^ seizing him 

 with a strong grip at about the center of the body, turned about 

 with the squirming worm and retraced his steps. The worm was 

 dead by the time the ant reached the ground. If this move of the 

 ants is common they must prove valuable friends to farmers and 

 fruit raisers, and should be protected in every way possible. We 

 do not believe that the birds that prey upon worms will do the 

 work in a week in our orchards, whicb these ants were doing in an 

 hour. — Rural New Yorker. 



STKAWBERET I]SrSECTS. 



Prof. Forbes recommends the following remedies m a general 

 way for the insects which feed on the strawberry plant : 1. Py- 

 rethrum, or the hand-net, for the tarnished plant bug and its 

 allies, which attack the plant before the fruit is picked. 2. Pois- 

 oning the foliage in midsummer to kill the beetles and root- worms, 

 or using carbolic acid or sul^jhide of carbon in the ground on their 

 first a]3pearance. 3. Exterminating tlie leaf-rollers and other leaf- 

 eating insects, by mowing and burning the leaves in midsummer 

 after the fruit is picked. 4. Changing the crop occasionally when 

 noxious species multiply inordinately. 5. Preventing the transfer 

 of the crown-borer from old to new plantations. These measures 

 will be found highly profitable in the way of defense, considered as 

 an investment of time, labor and money. — Prairie Farmer. 



CODLING MOTH. 



According to the Kansas Farmer, IS". P. Deming, Lawrence, 

 Kans., has found an effectual remedy for the curculio'and the 

 codling moth m the following : Eight teaspoonfuls of Pans-green, 

 and one and one-half pounds of common bar soap, to thirty gallons 

 of water ; then Avith the use of a small force pump spray the trees. 

 Mr. Deming feels so well satisfied with the experiment that he will 

 plant out more plum trees, now that he can subdue the curculio. 



A EEMEDY FOR THE PHYLLOXERA. 



We have discovered a complete remedy for the phylloxera, in 

 the application to each vine of one-half ounce of quicksilver mixed 

 with clay so minutely that the globules are not distinguishable with 

 an ordinary microscope. We find the application will cost little 

 more than one cent per vine. Among our experiments two dozen 

 vines that were dying, owing to the phylloxera, were dug up in a 

 vineyard, and after a dose of mercury had been applied to each 



