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while not a worm can be found on the tree above the application of 

 printers' ink. The number of worms cultivated on the three or four 

 worthless trees on the premises adjacent to my own is astonishing; 

 numbers fail to convey an adequate idea. The grass-land and the 

 earth seem to be covered with them. In fifteen minutes after killing 

 every worm to be seen on the trunk of the tree below the tarred paper 

 hundreds can be found making their way up the trunk, to be stopped 

 by the application of printers' ink." 



ANOTHER NEWSPAPER SPIDER-BITE SCARE. 



" Bitten by a spider — Harry Mattoon, of the Central House, has a close 

 call. — Dr. J. li. Karsner yesterday was called to attend Harry, the 

 second son of Mrs. S. V. Mattoon, and about sixteen years old, at the 

 Central House, who on Tuesday night had been bitten on the fleshy part 

 of his thigh by a black spider. 



"The doctor says that as soon as the young man was bitten his leg 

 began to swell and pain him fearfully. At times he was unconscious. 



"A doctor was sent for to Moore's Station, and he attended young 

 Mattoon that night, but as the swelling had not subsided in the morn- 

 ing and his suffering was very great. Dr. Karsner was sent for. 



"The doctor told the Mercury reporter that young Mattoon's condi- 

 tion was a very serious one. His leg was swelled to great proportions 

 as far as the knee, and it was so hard that he could make no impression 

 in the flesh with his hand. But when he left the patient was better, 

 and he thinks he will recover." — Oroville Mercury, July 11, 1890. 



REMEDIES FOR THE HARLEQUIN CABBAGE-BUG. 



Two of our correspondents, the one in Gregg County, Tex., and the 

 other in Natchez, Miss., have suffered considerably from the damage 

 done by this well-knowu pest. The gentleman from Texas writes that 

 after exhausting his patience in endeavoring to hand-pick the bugs he 

 finally hit upon the plan of sprinkling the plants with lime in the morn- 

 ing when the dew was on. The first application did not entirely rid 

 him of the bugs, but a second and third about ten days or two weeks 

 apart were successful. He commenced using the lime about the first of 

 August, and following his example some of his neighbors tried it suc- 

 cessfully. The lime was sprinkled on so that the plant appeared toler- 

 ably white without being affected. 



Our Mississippi correspondent reports that he found the bugs hiber- 

 nating in the neighborhood of fences among the thick Bermuda grass, 

 and that in April he found them for the first time in the cabbage fields. 

 They were at that time, however, comparatively few in number and con- 

 fined to restricted i»laces. They were evidelitly the first brood after 

 the hibernating individuals, and by careful searching our correspond- 

 ent entirelj^ rid his fields for the season by sacrificing four or five dozen 

 cabbages, cutting them down when they were only half grown. 



