[17] Report of the State Entomologist. 159 



the maggot, use it, and you will find it a dead shot for the maggot. 

 Apply it with a sprinkler, taking off the nose, and pour the solution 

 along the rows. I seldom have to apply it a second time." The same 

 remedy is recommended for the onion-worm, and it has, to my certain 

 knowledge, been jDroved effectual against the attack of the white-grub 

 on strawberry plants. 



6. A strong decoction of common tansy, where it is abundant, 

 would probably be about as serviceable as the burdock. 



7. A preventive of attack that has been used in England with good 

 result, is, dipping the plants in a puddle of cow-dung or night soil, 

 so as to smear the roots and stems well up to the leaves with the 

 mixture. 



8. Another English preventive is to dip the stems in thick soot and 

 water. It appears to imj^art a bitterness to the plants that the mag- 

 gots do not relish, and it is also found to ward off attack from grubs 

 and cut-worms. 



9. Hellebore gives promise of being as useful against the cabbage 

 (and onion and radish) maggot, as it has proved in protecting 

 tobacco j)lauts from cut-worms. In the latter case, the young plants 

 were dipped before setting out, in a solution of white hellebore in 

 water — one-fourth of a pound in ten quarts of water. A gentleman in 

 West Meriden, Conn., on June twenty-second, set 3,000 tobacco j^lants, 

 and on the following morning he took from a row of 180 plants 214 cut- 

 worms. On June twenty-fourth, he set out over 2,000 plants treated 

 with the hellebore as above, of which he subsequently found but one 

 plant eaten and that but slightly. 



10. Avoid the use of fresh barnyard manure on cabbage ground, as 

 that is believed to invite deposit of the eggs of the fly and to offer 

 protection to the maggot. 



Other remedies and preventives are mentioned in the First Rqiort 

 on the Insects of New Yo7'k, 1882 (p. 190), in which an extended notice 

 of the insect is given. 



Beans for Repelling the Striped Cucumber Beetle. 

 The recommendation has often been made of planting beans in each 

 hill with the cucumber seed, to repel the strij^ed beetle. A wi'iter in 

 the New York Tribune has given his method of growing beans and 

 cucumbers on the same ground, at first solely with the object of 

 economizing space and labor by getting two crops from the same 

 ground, but which gave the additional result of freedom from the 

 beetle attack. The ground was marked three feet apart each way 

 with a corn plow, and butter beans and cucumbers or melons were 

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