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General Index 



Remedies for — CConfimted) : 

 nitrate of soda, 372, 418, 441 . 

 offensive odors, 363. 



Paris green, 297, 336, 341, 343, 345, 372, 374, 

 415-416, 417(3), 423, 428, 432-433, 434, 443. 

 peroxide of silicates, 363. 

 Persian insect powder, 352. 

 phosphates, 418. 



planting beans with cucumbers, 363. 

 poisonous coating, 363 . 

 potash salts, 418. 

 pyrethrum, 312, 314, .363, 371, 418, 420, 441. 



with flour, 442. 

 raupenleim, insect lime, 425. 

 removal of the outer bark of the tree, 428- 



429. 

 road dust, 336. 

 saltpetre, 363. 

 sludge-oil soap, 418, 420. 

 slug shot, 363. 



soap suds, 345, 369, 370, 441(2) . 

 sulphate of copper, 434 . 

 sulphur, 352, 442. 

 tar, 442, 444. 

 tarred paper, 431 . 

 tobacco, .345. 369, 370, 371, 372, 418, 419, 420, 



441, 442. 

 trapping with leaves, 316, 441 . 

 turpentine, 352. 



and land plaster, 363. 

 whale-oil soap, 370, 440. 

 white arsenic and lime, 434-435. 

 whiting, 418. 

 wood ashes, 372. 

 X. O. dust, 418, 420. 

 Remedy for the — 



American meal-worm, .308, 309, 442. 



apple-leaf miner, 445. 



apple tree aphis. 372, 373, 431-432. 



bark-louse, 373. 



Bucculatrix, 445. 



tent-caterpillar, 436, 441 . 

 army-worm, 443. 

 bean weevil. 439 . 

 bed-bug, 458. 

 beet-leaf miners, 375. 

 black blister beetle, 443. 

 black-rot, 436. 

 blight in asters, 372. 

 brown-rot, 369, 417. 

 cabbage aphis, 432. 



butterfly, 442. 



fly, 431 . 



maggot, 418. 



worm, 444. 

 cherry-tree aphis, 345-346, 369, 440. 



slug, .336. 

 cluster-fly, 312, 314, 439. 

 codling-moth, 341, 417, 433. 435. 

 Colorado potato bsetle, 297. 

 cow-horn fly, 442. 

 curculios, 361, 365, 415, 416. 

 currant aphis, 370. 



Remedy for the — (Continued) : 



elm-tree bark-borer (Saperda), 428-429. 



elm-tree borer (Zeuzera), 426-427. 



eye-spotted bud-moth, 373. 



flea-beetle, 375. 



fleas, 352- 353. 



fungous diseases, 436. 



grain moth (Sitotroga), 308, 309. 



grain weevils (Calandra, Silvanus, etc.), 



308, .309. 

 grape curculio, 364-365. 

 grapevine leaf-hopper, 430. 

 Gypsy moth, 423, 424, 425, 4.32-433, 434. 

 harlequin cabbage-bug, 316-317, 441. 

 Indian cetonian, 443. 

 leaf blights, 436. 



miners, 376. 



rollers, .374. 

 maple-tree borer, 442. 



pruner, 361 . 

 meal-worm, 442. 

 oak-pruner, 361 . 

 peach-bark Scolytiis, 365. 

 pear-leaf blister, 442. 

 pear-tree aphis, 369. 



borer, 366. 



mite, 442. 



psylla, .329, 480, 441 . 



slug, 336,440. 

 pea-weevil, 439. 

 plant-lice, 418. 

 plum aphis, .369. 



curculio, 417, 433, 434. 

 plum-leaf fungus, 417. 

 potato-scab, 4.36. 

 powdery mildew, 4.36. 

 raspberry borer, 4^. 

 red spider, 432. 

 root grubs, 444 . 

 root-inhabiting aphis, 371 . 

 rose-bug, 418, 420. 

 rose-leaf roller, 418. 

 scale insects (Coccidae), 447. 4.54. 

 scurfy bark louse, 441 . 

 strawberry root grub, 443. 



slug, 431 . 



weevil. 431 . 

 striped cucumbei- beetle. 362, 363, .364, 419. 



flea beetle, 375 . 

 tarnished plant- bug, 375. 

 tent caterpillars, 433. 444 . 

 thousand-legged worms, 372. 

 thrips on cabbage, 444. 

 turnip-flea beetle, 375. 

 weevil in a granary, 444. 

 white grub. .353-354. 

 white-pine weevil, 345. 

 remotepunctata, Calandra, 308. 

 Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture 



cited, 317, 340, 341. 

 Report of the Commissioner of Patents cited, 

 317, 356. 



