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done, and it has left the empty decaying gall. The Club is a great 
irregularly-formed mass which gradually cracks and putrifies.* 
A most commonly used remedy for gall on young Cabbage is just 
scraping off the galls with the nail (or in any convenient way) at the 
time of planting out. But where any attention is given to the subject 
the principle of prevention lies in such measures as rotation of crop, 
which will allow of the beetles being developed and gone before a crop 
suitable for their infestation is again put in. Also in destroying the 
infested stumps by burning. If they are merely thrown aside the 
weevil-grubs will feed on uninjured within the galls, and in due time 
go through the later stages of their development undisturbed. There- 
fore leaving the infested stocks about, or digging them in, or throwing 
them in rot-heaps, are all of them practices leading to continuance of 
weevil-presence. 
Trenching does good in garden cultivation by putting the weevils 
down to a depth from which they cannot come up, and in the case of 
this insect infestation, as well as in the Slime-fungus infestation of 
Club and Finger-and-Toe, the application of lime or gas-lime is 
beneficial. 
CORN AND GRASS. 
Antler Moth; Grass Owlet Moth. Chareas graminis, Linn. 
CHARHAS GRAMINIS.—Moth and Caterpillars. 
Antler Moth caterpillar attack, it will be remembered, was one ot 
the most widespread infestations reported in 1894, and it was of con- 
siderable interest to find whether it would reappear in the same district 
in the past season. This it has done to some degree, but by no means 
to the extent recorded in the 1894 attack. 
* Large figures from life, in photogravure, of Club, Anbury and Finger-and-Toe, 
full account of the attack, and measures found serviceable in greatly lessening the 
injury caused by Slime-fungus, or Plasmodiophora brassice, will be found in my 
‘Sixteenth Report on Injurious Insects.’—Ep, 
