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tablespoonful of the mash every 6 or 8 feet, and following up with 
another line behind the first. 
Bran and Paris green, on the authority of Prof. J. B. Smith, thor- 
oughly mixed and sprinkled dry on cabbage heads proved a most suc- 
cessful remedy for cabbage worms, the latter preferring the poisoned 
bran to the cabbage, to their prompt undoing. The same dry mixture 
has been successfully employed against cutworms and is recommended 
by Smith for the army worm, running it in rows 10 feet apart across 
the infested field. 
For sow bugs, or pill bugs, which frequently are injurious pests to 
tender flowering plants and vegetables grown under frames or in glass 
houses, poisoned slices of potato have proven the most effectual remedy. 
The freshly sliced potato may be poisoned by dipping in a strong 
arsenical solution, or by dusting thickly with a dry arsenical, and dis- 
tributed over the beds. Pansy beds have been notably protected in 
this way, and a Michigan vegetable grower reports that in two nights 
he destroyed upward of 24,000 of these bugs by this means in four 
houses used for lettuce growing. 
Another remedy for baiting cutworms and also for wireworms is to 
distribute poisoned green, succulent vegetation, such as freshly cut 
clover, in small bunches about in the infested fields. Dip the bait in 
a very strong arsenical solution, and protect from drying by covering 
with boards or stones. Renew the bait as often as it becomes dry, or 
every three to five days. The bran-arsenic bait, as above mentioned, 
will also answer for cutworms. 
TIME TO SPRAY FOR BITING INSECTS. 
For tne codling moth the apple and pear should receive the first 
application as soon as the blossoms fall, which is also the time for the 
second treatment of the scab fungus; the second spraying should be 
given one week later and before the calyx closes and the fruit turns 
down on the stem. 
The reason for this course arises from the fact that the parent moth 
comes out in the spring, about the time the blossoms are falling from 
the apple trees, and glues her eggs on the skin of the young fruit and 
on the adjacent leaves also. The larvee, hatching in about a week, 
crawl about until they find lodgment in the blossom end of the young 
apples, and before entering the fruit take several meals in the partial 
concealment formed by the calyx, and doubtless also nibble more or 
less of the foliage before they reach the apple, if the eggs happen to 
be deposited on the leaves. During several days, therefore, the little 
apple worms feed externally, and the object of spraying is to insure 
their being poisoned by thoroughly coating the leaves, and especially 
the calyx end of every fruit, with the arsenical mixture. By the time 
the calyx closes most of the larve will have entered it and will be so 

