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Index. 



Remedies for insect depredations — Contin., 



cutting out larvae from trees, 68. 



deep plowing, 58. 



destroying fallen fruit, 58. 



destroying web-nests, 57. 



digging up cut-worms, 58. 



ditching for migration, 58. 



extermmation of English sparrow, 61. 



fish-brine for scale insects, 60. 



fish-oil, 801. 



fowls, for asparagus beetle, 61. 



gas-lime, 149. 



Eand-picking cocoons and imagines, 57. 



hand-picking eggs and larvae, 56. 



hot water, 5y, 179, 198, 269, 288, 307, C17. 



hunting larvae with a lantern, 58. 



jarring, 162. 



kerosene, 162. 



lady-bug colonization, 61. 



lighted candle for fleas, 62. 



lime, air-slacked, 59, 148. 



lime-water, 59. 



linseed oil, 162. 



London purple, 34, 166. 



molasses and London purple for ants, 62. 



molasses and red lead for roaches, 62. 



mustard water, 60. 



packing the ground by rolling, 59. 



paper bands, for apple-worm, 63. 



parafEne oil, 46, 179. 



parasitized insects, distribution of,^61. 



Paris green, 25-34, 166. 



plaster, 148. 



plowing under, 149. 



probing burrows for grubs, 68. 



quassia infusion, 59. 



road-dust, 60, 148. 



rolling the ground, 148. 



scrapmg bark, 162. 



sheep-dip of Buchan & Co., 62. 



sheep pastunng, 60. 



sheep-wash for ticks, 62. 



shelter for nocturnal feeders, 63. 



skunk, protection of, for hop-grub, 61. 



soap, 59, 304, 319. 



soap-suds, 162, 179, 194, 301, 302. 



soot dusting, 60. , 



sulphuric-acid water, 59. 



sulphur, lard and kerosene for poultry, 

 62. 



sulphur sifter for bird mites, 62. 



sweetened sponge for ants, 62. 



swine, for white grubs, etc., 61. 



tarring the ground for migrants, 58. 



toads m gardens, domestication of, 61. 



tobacco-smoke, 60, 319, 320. 



tobacco water, 59, 302. 



trapping in soap-suds, for flies, 62. 



tree-beating and jarring, 57. 



whale-oil soap, 59. 



wood-ashes, 60. 

 Bemedy for Abbot's white-pine worm, 42. 

 acarina on hens, 45. 



ants, 50, 62. 

 aphides, 49. 

 apple-curculio, 60. 

 apple-leaf Bucculatrix, 162. 

 apple-root plant-louse, 47. 

 apple-tree borer, 58, 312. 

 apple-tree tent-caterpillar, 56. 

 apple-tree case-bearer, 166. 

 apple-worm, 35, 58, 60, 63. 

 army-worm, 35, 53, 59. 



Remedy for ash-gray blister-beetle, 82, 

 57. 

 asparagus-beetle, 59, 61, 245. 

 autumn tent-caterpillar, 57. 

 basket-worm, 33, 57, 87. 

 beautiful wood-nymph, 83. 

 bed-bugs, 62. 

 bird-mites, 62. 



blue caterpillars of the vine, 88. 

 cabbage-butterfly,39, 52, 59. 

 cabbage-caterpillars, 59. 

 cabbage-fly, 47, 52, 192, 199. 

 canker-worm, 33, 57. 

 carpet-bug, 59. 

 carrot-fly, 46, 49. 

 celery-fly, 49, 52. 

 cherry and pear slug, 60. 

 chmch-bug, 68. 

 clover-leaf weevil, 258. 

 clover-root borer, 58. 

 clover-seed midge, 54. 

 cockroach, 62. 

 codling-moth, 35, 60. 

 Colorado potato-beetle, 26, 39, 48. 

 corn curculio, 263. 

 corn-worm, 125. 

 cotton-worm, 85, 58, 125. 

 Croton-bug, 62. 

 cucumber flea-beetle, 38. 

 curculio, 45, 51, 57, 68. 

 currant-borer, 57. 

 currant-worms, 41, 46, 66. 

 cut-worms, 58, 63. 

 dried Crambus, 161. 

 eight-spotted forester, 83. 

 fir saw-fly, 42. 

 flea-beetles, 45, 61. 

 fleas, 62. 



flies in stables, 45. 

 "fly " in sheep, 48. 

 four-lined leaf-bug, 279. 

 garden insects, 51. 

 grain-weevil, 40. 

 grape-vine flea-beetle, 59. 

 grape-vine Tortrix, 56. 

 harlequin cabbage-bug, 40, 68, 269, 270. 

 Hessian fly, 58. 

 honeysuckle saw-fly, 42. 

 hop-vine grub, 61. 

 house-flies, 36, 62. 

 Indian Cetonia, 238. 

 larch aphis, 46. 

 larch lappet, 99. 

 leaf hoppers, 45. 

 Le Conte's saw-fly, 42. 

 lice in henneries, 45. 

 lice on cattle, 40, 45. 

 margined blister-beetle, 33, 57. 

 May-bug, 57. 

 mites in henneries, 45. 

 mites on birds, 46, 62. 

 onion fly, 46, 52, 178. 

 parasites on hogs, 45. 

 parasites on horses, 45. 

 peach-tree borer, 47, 58. 

 peach-twig moth, 156. 

 pear-slug, 42, 60. 

 pea-weevil, 49. 

 Phylloxera, 47, 50. 

 plant-lice, 40, 61. 

 radish-fly, 48, 199, 

 raspberry -slug, 42. 

 raspberry-twig girdler, 57. 



