20 GENERAL REMARKS. 



known to be destructive to ants and various other small 

 insects, but it is difficult to apply to plants. 



In the summer season, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, 

 &c., are particularly subject to the ravages of grubs and 

 caterpillars ; o prevent this wholly, is perhaps impossible, 

 but it is not difficult to check these troublesome visitors ; this 

 may be done by searching for them on their first appearance, 

 and destroying them. Early in the morning, grubs may be 

 collected from the earth, within two or three inches of such 

 plants as they may have attacked the night previous. 



The approach of caterpillars is discoverable on the leaves 

 of Cabbages, many of which are reduced to a thin white skin 

 by the minute insects which emerge from the eggs placed on 

 them ; these leaves being gathered and thrown into the fire, 

 a whole host of enemies may be destroyed at once ; whereas, 

 if they are suffered to remain, they will increase so rapidly, 

 that in a few days the plantation, however extensive, may 

 become infested ; and, when once these arrive at the butterfly 

 or moth stage of existence, they become capable of perpetu- 

 ating their destructive race to an almost unlimited extent 

 The same remarks apply to all other insects in a torpid state. 



Worms, maggots, snails, or slugs, may be driven away by 

 sowing salt or lime in the spring, in the proportion of two to 

 three bushels per acre, or by watering the soil occasionally 

 with salt arid water, using about two pounds of salt to foui 

 gallons of water ; or the slug kind may be easily entrapped 

 on small beds of plants, by strewing slices of turnip on them 

 late in the evening ; the slug or snail will readily crowd on 

 them, and may be gathered up early in the morning (before 

 sunrise) and destroyed. 



Moles may be annoyed and driven away, by obstructing 

 the passage in their burrows with sticks smeared with tar. 

 First insert a clean stick from the surface through the bur- 

 rows ;.>then dip others in tar, and pass them through into the 

 floor of the burrows, being careful not to rub off the tar in 

 the operation. Tar is also an effectual remedy against smut 



