1856.] Salt to Destroy Worms. 339 



SALT TO DESTROY WORMS 



In that excellent paper, the Gerraantown Telegraphy we find some 

 remarks on the value of salt to destroy worms on vegetables. AYe copy 

 what follows : " A loeak hrine, not exceeding the strength of sra icafer, 

 proves a remedy for the "squash destroyer," one of the insidious and 

 persevering, as well as voraciously destructive enemies with which the 

 gardener and fruit grower is called to contend. It is also a most 

 effectual preventive of aphides, or plant lice, vermin which prey upon 

 the cabbage and turnip tribes. In every instance of the application of 

 brine to these vegetables, that has fallen under our observation, its 

 Buccess has been complete. No injury need be apprehended from a very 

 liberal application, say one quart to a plant, if the solution be of the 

 strength indicated. All the cabbage tribe are liable to be attacked and 

 fatally injured by minute maggots, resembling, very nearly, the maggots 

 in cheese, and which are doubtless the huva of some fly. There is 

 another enemy, also, by which they are frequently infested — a small 

 grub, similar, in many respects, to those found in corn and potato hills, 

 and which not unfrequently prove very destructive. Salt water apidied 

 to the hills will have a tendency to arrest their depredations, and if the 

 application be repeated frequently, say once in two or three days, it will 

 effectually destroy or drive them off. The water, however, should not be 

 allowed to come in contact with the foliage, in this instance, but should 

 be applied to the soil immediately around the stalks, but without coming 

 in actual contact with them. To destroy the first named insects, it may 

 be applied in a state sufficiently dilute to admit of a perfect ablution of 

 every part of the foliage ; but as we said before, care must be taken not 

 to make it too strong, or it will destroy the plant. Every cook knows, 

 or ouglit to know, that the washing of cabbage, lettuce, spinach, etc., in 

 salt water before cooking or preparing for the table, is sure to expel 

 every species of insect which so frequently seeks a habitation or a shelter 

 in these vegetables. — Western Agriculturist. 



Caked Bags in Cows. — Sewall Sergeant, of Massachusetts, cures this 

 by boiling a handfull of cake or garget root in two gallons of water, 

 and after skimming out the root, using one-third of the water in a mess of 

 bran; and the three messes, he says, have never failed in effecting a 

 cure. We have always found opedilcloc a certain relief. Hub it upon 

 the caked bag freely at night, and it will be ^vell by morning. 



