Sbo. 12.] ENTOMOLOGICAL. 237 



natorx. Snuff, strong liquid manure, powder, charcoal dust, etc., will pro- 

 tect, provided they can lind plenty to eat elsewhere; if not, they care about 

 as much for them as I should about wetting my feet in wading a brook for 

 my dinner, if 1 could not get it by any other means. I am satisfied that 

 they might be, in a great measure, exterminated by neighbors joining, dur- 

 ing the prevalence of the moths, and setting torches or building tires for 

 them to lly into. I saved my tomato crop, the present season, by having my 

 men go over the ground in the morning, soon after daylight, and pick up the 

 worms by hand. The tirst morning we secured over two thousand by count, 

 and the next morning we gathered over a half peck of them on about an acre 

 and a half. After that they began to diminish, and in a few days scarcely 

 one could be found. I protect dahlias, and other choice plants, by wrapping 

 paper about the stems; vines, by planting plenty of seed, and killing the 

 worms ; vine shields, if set two or three inches below the surface, will gen- 

 erally protect. I have never succeeded in trapping them in holes, because, 

 if they fall into them, they can dig out, if they can not crawl out. The best 

 way to protect against their ravages is to plant plenty of seed, protect the 

 birds, and then help them kill the worms. 



The London Gardener's Chronicle says there is a prospect of a total de- 

 struction of the grass in the London parks, by the grub of an insect known 

 as "Daddy Longlegs," which eats the roots of the turf and totally destroys 

 it. " Various remedies have been tried without success." Have any of 

 those remedies been a heavy dressing of salt? If not, it should be tried at 

 once. And besides that, we should like to know what this " Daddy Long- 

 legs" is. It can not be our cut-worm, that sometimes destroys the turf in 

 old meadows; and certainly it can not be the '' Daddy Longlegs" of our ac- 

 quaintance, for that, so far as our youthful entomological researches went, 

 was a very harmless Daddy, which had very long, slim, crooked legs, attacliod 

 to a round body, the size of a small pea. 



259. Wire Worms.—" A Young Farmer" wants to know what he shall do 

 to get rid of wire worms. lie says: 



" An old gentleman not far from me says : ' Soak the seed over night in 

 copperas water, and the wire worm will not trouble it.' "Who knows whether 

 this is so or not?" 



Ah! who knows? Does anybody i/iww any tiling? 



Another says soaking seed in a solution of niter will prevent destruction. 

 If so, how easily practiced ! Again, who knows? 



Probably the best remedy against wire worms is not to grow them. Keep 

 no old meadows. Ereak them uj). IMow all your sod and stubble land in 

 the fall. Either bury your wortn seed too deep to get out in time in the 

 spring, or else freeze it to death in the winter. There is probably no remedy 

 equal to deep plowing in the fall of the year. 



Perhaps we might all learn useful lessons from nature if we would more 

 carefully read her printed pages. For instance, one who does try to read 

 each lessons says : 



