Where one has but few plants to spray and does not care to emploj' 

 an arsenical or the soap wash, hellebore may be used either as a dry 

 powder or as a wet spray. The powder may lie applied with a bellows 

 or dusted lightly over the plants from a cloth bag, making the applica- 

 tion preferably when the plants are wet with dew. 



So sensitive is the slug-worm that very heavy rains will often destroj^ 

 it, and it is much less apt to be injurious in wet seasons. For this 

 reason it may often be possible to rid plants of it by subjecting them 

 to a forcible water spray. 



C. L. Maklatt, 

 First Assistant Eniomoloijisl. 

 Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Ayricnlturc. 



Washington, D. C, August 28, 1897. 



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