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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



June, 1910 



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spring, when mating and egg-lnying would 

 take place; the young batching from eggs 

 laid in the spring of 1909 would not be 

 large enough to work appreciable injury 

 until the summer of 1910. 



To be effective, any treatment against 

 this pest must bo begun as soon as the first 

 signs of injury to the lawn are observed. 

 To wait until the grass is brown and dead 

 is like shutting the door after the horse is 

 stolen. The most acceptable treatment at 

 this date appears to consist of copious wa- 

 tering of the lawn where possible, accom- 

 panied by the use of some artificial fertiliz- 

 er, like nitrate of soda (from 2.50 to 350 

 pounds to the acre), thus enabling the lawn 

 by vigorous growth to keep ahead of the 

 grub. One should at least resort in each 

 case to abundant watering when possible, 

 even though the fertilizer is not applied. J. 

 B. Smith, state entomologist of New Jersey, 

 claims to have obtained relief by the liberal 

 use of ground tobacco stems scattered 

 broadcast and liberally over an affected 

 lawn, followed by copious watering. He 

 states that grubs disappeared after this 

 treatment. This suggests, naturally, the 

 frequent sprinkling of lawns with a tobacco 

 decoction. Evidently, this would have to 

 be quite strong and used generously. We 

 have killed them by the use of bisulphide 

 of carbon without injuring the grass, but 

 the process is a slow one and impracticable 

 where large areas are involved. Clover is 

 not seriously affected by this insect. After 

 the lawn is dead in patches nothing remains 

 for the owner to do but to re-sod or re-seed. 



Robins greatly aid in the extermination 

 of the white grub, and may frequently be 

 seen pulling them from under the dead 

 grass. They should be encouraged in this 

 good work. Moles and shrews eat them 

 and we believe that skunks are also fond 

 of them. If the grubs should be carefully 



remotred and debtroyod when brownish 

 patches are first observed in the lawn, their 

 injurious work is at once stopped. Thev 

 will be found just below the sod if they are 

 responsible for its condition. — From Bull. 

 112, Agricultural Experiment Station, St 

 Paul, Minn. 



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 tion and of its parent society, the Montreal 

 Horticultural Society. 



"Previous to 1877," remarked Mr. Brodie 

 "the Montreal Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Society existed, having each year its 

 county exhibition, but unfortunately it pub- 

 lished no report of its procedings. In 1877, 

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