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season, a few hours later wash down with 5 gallons of water ana repeat 
with a like amount the day following. It is better, however, to make 
this treatment in the spring, when the more frequent rains will take the 
place of the waterings. 
Yor root maggots enough of the wash is put along at the base of the 
plant to wet the soil to a depth of 1 to 2 inches, preferably following 
after an hour with a like amount of water. 
For white grubs in strawberry beds or in lawns the surface should 
be wetted with kerosene emulsion to a depth of 2 or 3 inches, following 
with copious waterings to be repeated for two or three days. The larvee 
go to deeper and deeper levels and eventually die. 
Potash fertilizers.—For white grubs, wireworms, cutworms, corn 
voot-worms, and like insects, on the authority of Prof. J. B. Smith, 
either the kainit or muriate of potash, the former better, are broad- 
casted in fertilizing quantities, preferable before or during a rain so 
that the material is dissolved and carried into the soil at once. These 
not only act to destroy the larve in the soil, but are deterrents, and 
truck lands constantly fertilized by these substances are noticeably 
free from attacks of insects. This, in a measure, results from the 
increased vigor and greater resistant power of the plant, which, of itself, 
more than compensates for the cost of the treatment. The value of 
these fertilizers against the wireworms is, however, questioned by 
Prof. J. H. Comstock. 
For the root-louse of peach and apple work the fertilizer into the 
general surface of the soil about the trees, or put it in a trench about 
the tree 2 feet distant from the trunk. 
For cabbage and onion maggots apply in little trenches along the 
roots at the rate of 300 to 500 pounds to the acre, and cover with soil. 
These fertilizers (and the nitrate of soda is nearly as good) are also 
destructive to the various insects which enter the soil for hibernation or 
to undergo transformation. . 
Bisulphide of carbon.—This is the great French remedy for the 
phylloxera, 150,000 acres being now subjected to treatment with it, and 
applies equally well to all other root-inhabiting lice. The treatment is 
made at any season except the period of ripening of the fruit, and con- 
sists in making holes about the vines 1 foot to 16 inches deep and 
pouring into each about one-half ounce of bisulphide, and closing the 
hole with the foot. These injections are made about 14 feet apart, and 
not closer to the vines than 1 foot. Itis better to make a large number 
of small doses than a few large ones. Hand injectors and injecting 
plows are employed in France to put the bisulphide into the soil about 
the vines, but a short stick or iron bar may be made to take the place 
of these injectors for limited tracts. 
For root maggots a teaspoonful is poured into a hole at the base of 
the plant, covering as above. 
For ant nests an ounce of the substance is poured into each of sev- 
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