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a man goes through the patch, taking two rows at a time, and scatters 

 a small pinch on each hill. The turpentine drives away the beetles, and 

 we seldom make the second application." 



Another writer finds safety from the beetle by planting cucumbers 

 and beans in alternate hills. In order to get two crops from the same 

 ground, it is marked in rows three feet apart each way, and planted 

 with melons or cucumbers in hills alternately in one row, and in the 

 next, all beans. The string beans are out of the way in time for the 

 melons to occupy the ground. 



Another person has tested the efficacy of beans for ten years, with 

 perfect success, by planting a circle six inches apart around the outer 

 edge of each hill. The beans would come up in advance, and no beetle 

 would molest the cucumbers. {^Country Gentleman, for November 

 ■20th, 1890.) 



The Grape Curculio, Craponius inaequalis ^Say). 



A correspondent from Sanford, Tenn., sends grapes that have been 

 stung by an insect, desiring to know what the insect is. The bunch 

 from which the grapes were taken had every one punctured in the 

 same manner. The damage to his crop from this cause was very 

 great, and he could only secure a good crop by bagging the clusters. 

 The grapes showed a small, dark brown spot or puncture on one side, 

 surrounded with a rounded discolored blotch. On opening them, a 

 yellowish- white footless larva with a pale-brown head was found work- 

 ing within the pulp, and having partly eaten one or more of the seeds, 

 ^somewhat after the manner of the caterpillar of the grape-berry moth. 

 It was recognized as the larva of the grape curculio, Craponins 

 inmqualis (Say). 



This insect is rather a local one, and is only occasionally reported as 

 injurious to the grape crop, and rarely so, outside of the valley of the 

 Mississippi river, although it ranges, according to LeConte and Horn, 

 over the Middle, Southern, and Western States. It was found by 

 Prof essor Webster particularly abundant on one of the Ozai'k mountains 

 in Arkansas, working in both cultivated and wild grapes. I have 

 never met with it in the State of New York, but it is probably occa- 

 sionally found therein, as it is reported from opposite New York city, at 

 West Hoboken. Its attack can, of course, be prevented by bagging 

 the clusters, and as bagging not only improves the appearance of the 

 grapes, but also preserves them from injury to which they are exposed 



