i^ AeRICULTURAL ES3AT3, 



which will come up at different times, and thus a part of the oi;fi 

 or of the other will stand a chance of escaping. Gypsum soot 

 and tansy water, applied as mentioned before is good. Elder 

 leaves, frequently dragged over the ground after the plants are 

 up, IS also efficacious. Smokes, made to the windward side, 

 will help to keep off this insect. Rolling the ground after sow- 

 ing, IS also recommended, where the ground is smooth : the 

 benefit derived from this, consists in compressing the surface 

 ot the ground so as to afford fewer hiding places in it for these 

 insects. It IS said ducks, in a turnip Seld, will- destroy the in- 

 sects without mjuring the young plants. 



Garden flea. Destructive to young cabbage plants while 

 m the seed leaf. 



i?eme(fy.— Elder leaves, gypsum, soot and tansy water, as 

 mentioned above. Soap suds is also good to be sprinkled over 



Lice, These infest cabbages, &e. They may be extirpate 

 ed by smoke, particularly of tobacco. They sometimes, how^ 

 ever, appear so late in the season that the frosts destroy them-, 

 beiore they do much injury. 



Weavel. a little black bug, very destructive to wheat,, 

 either in barns or granaries. On thrusting your hand into a 

 bm of wheat infested with them, considerable warmth will be 

 felt ; but as they are usually collected together, every part of 

 the heap or bin should be examined 



It is said they may be destroyed in a close apartment, by fu- 

 migating It with burnt sulphur, for about twelve hours. Anoth- 

 BT Remedy. Mr L'Hommedieu, having found his bin of wheat 

 tull of weavel, he emptied the bin, white-washed the inside, 

 and then returned the wheat into it, sprinkling a handful of fine 

 unslacked hme over every four or five bushels, thus returned, 

 and five or six handfuls was sprinkled over the whole. In ten 

 or twelve days the weavel disappeared. When the wheat wa& 

 used, he winnowed it, which took out the lime. 



Weavel may be sifted out of wheat by a sieve, wl ich will let 

 them pass through, and retain the wheat. 



Grasshoppers. Great numbers of these are generated in- 

 upland mowing grounds. They are not so troublesome in up- 

 land pastures, for the reason, probably, that the feet of the cat- 



