INDEX TO REFORT8 I-X 



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Praying Mantis, iv, 160, 193; vii, 357. 

 precationis, Plusia, ii, 97; x, 376, 482. 

 pretiosa, Catocala, vii, 375; viii, 292. 



Trichogramma, ii, 220, 329; iv, 194, 197, 205. 

 Preventives of insect depredations, 

 acid and lime wash, ix, 365, 366. 

 air-slaked lime, iv, 198. 

 alum water for repelling roaches, i, 65. 

 ammoniacal liquor, iv, 191. 

 animal secretions, i, 75. 

 ashes, i, 177; iv, 156, 198; v, 301; vi, 182; x, 



4a4. 

 attracting to food-plants of minor value, 



i, 64. 

 bagging, ii, 49, 229; vi, 12], 179, 185. 

 banding with tarred pdper, ix, 424. 

 bands of chalk on trees, x, 367. 

 bands of fur on trees, x, 367. 

 bands of tar, tin, etc., ii, 8, 9, 27; iii, 95; 



vii, 241; x, 367. 

 bark-pee1ing, iv, 195. 

 barn-yard manure, iv, 194. 

 barricades against migration, i, 58. 

 beans for cucumber beetle, v, 159; x, 414. 

 bisulphide of carbon, ii, 65; v, 313. 

 black-walnut tree for cucumber beetle, x, 



4I3-414. 

 borax for repelling roaches, etc., i, 65. 

 bottle-trap for garden insects, ii. 33. 

 breaking up breeding grounds, viii, 201. 

 breaking up hibernating quarters, vii, 333. 

 brine, i, 190. 



brine lime wash, vii, 333. 

 buckwheat crop, v, 317; viii, 197, 283. 

 burdock decoction, iv, 194; v, 158. 

 burning, v. 3J4, 323; viii, 210. 

 camphor, for insect collections, i, 74. 

 camphor, for protecting woolens, i, 61. 

 canker-worm trap, i, 64. 

 carbolic acid, i, 65; ii, 25, 26, 65, 66, 232. 

 carbolic acid and Paris green wash, viii, 184. 

 carbolic acid and soap-wash, iv, 107. 

 carbolic wa^h, ii, 25, 27; iv, 107; viii, 183. 

 ca'rbolized paper, ii, 232. 

 carbolized plaster, vii, 346. 

 cayenne pepper, ii, 34. 

 cedar shavings for woolens, i, 64. 

 cessation from planting, vi, 172, 185. 

 chalk for red ants, i, 65. 

 coal-oil refuse, ii, 27. 

 coal tar, ii, 65. 66, 67, 08; v, 155, 30'.. 

 coal-tar distillates, i, 75. 

 copperas water, viii, 239. 

 cotton-batting around trees, i, 61. 

 counterodorants. ii, 228; v, 313, ai9, .332. 

 cow-dung, iv, 194; v, 159. 

 creosote, iv, 195. 

 cultivating skunks, x, 373. 

 destroying caterpillar nests, v, 304. 

 destroying eggs, v, 304; viii, 263; x, 444. 

 destroy ingfgrain moth in granaries, x, 384. 

 destroying the English sparrow, ii, 83. 



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Preventives of insect depredations — iCont'd) . 

 driving from food-plants, vi, 132. 

 dusting foliage, vii, 289. 

 dusting with plaster of Paris, vl, 132. 

 early threshing for grain moth, x, 384. 

 fencing out insects, ix, 363. 

 fish manure, i, 75. 

 flsh-oll, V, 226. 



frames with nettlng-cover, ii, 64. 

 gas-lime, i, 177; ii, 162: iii, 114; iv, 191; v, 



158, 160. 

 gas-tar, viii, 205. 



gas-tar p»per beneath carpets, i, 61. 

 gauze-covered frames, Ix, 363. 

 grafting trees to resistant varieties, 'viii, 



247. 

 grape bagging, ii, 32-33. 

 ground bjne dust, vii, 368. 

 ground pepper for woolens, i, 64. 

 growth of immune crops, viii, 200. 

 guano, V, 158, 313. 

 heavy rains, vii, 3)2. 

 hellebore solution, iv, 194; v, 169. 

 high culture, i, 63, 66. 



hops, spent, for cabbage protection, i, 65. 

 housing corn in shuck, x, 384. 

 insect-lime in bands on trees, x, 367. 

 killing before egg-laying time, iv, 200. 

 late planting, v, 303. 



late sowing for certain insects, i, 63; vi, 17 

 lime, V, 301, 305. 

 lime-dust, vii, 369. 

 lime- wash, vii, 289, 333. 

 linen sheets, for woolens, i, 64. 

 manuring, i, 178. 

 mechanical coatings, ix, 363. 

 mounding around trees, i. 64; H, 6; vii. 374 ; 



viii, 185. 

 muslin or netting covering, ix, S62. 

 mustard crop, v, 310, 317; v, 198. 

 naphthaline, ii, 35, 65, 66; vi, 169. 

 naphthaline cones for cabinets, i, 65. 

 netting, i, 232; ii, 58, 64; v, 313. 

 nieht-soil, iv, 194; v, 159. 

 offensive odors, ix, 363. 

 oil application, i, 190; vii, 333. 

 oil of tar, vi, 114. 



paper bigs for grapes, ii, .32, 33; viii, 286. 

 paper bags, for woolens, i, 64. 

 paper cylinders around cabbage plants, 



etc., i, 64. 

 paper frames, viii, 241. 

 paper wraps, viii, 241. 

 paving or flagging under trees, vii, 290. 

 pennyroyal for red ants, i, 65. 

 pig-manure, v, .301 . 

 pig-sty drainage, i, 75; v, 301. 

 planting beans with cucumbers, ix, 363. 

 plaster, i, 231; v, 301, 305. 

 plaster of Paris, vii, 346. 

 plowing under, x, 444. 

 powdered charcoal, i, 177, 



