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until the last plant has been carried to the barn. We 

 have no idea that such sprinkling will at all affect the 

 odour or flavour of the tobacco when cured. 



" If, as stated by a writer in a California paper, the 

 well-known * yellow-jacket ' be useful in destroying 

 tobacco-worms, by all means win it as an ally. As 

 proving its usefulness, the writer asserts that one of his 

 neighbours, a Mr. Gulp, during fifteen years growing 

 tobacco, has never expended a dollar for labour to destroy 

 the worm, trusting all to this little workman, who, he 

 says, carefully searches the plants for the worms, and 

 never allows one to escape its vigilance. 



" We cannot speak from our own experience as to many 

 of these suggested means for overcoming the horn-worm, 

 but we have no hesitation in saying to the farmer, try 

 any, try all of them rather than have your crop eaten to 

 shreds, and the labour of more than half the year brought 

 to naught in a few days, it may be, by a single * glut ' of 

 worms. 



"VIII. 'Prime high and top low.' While open to 

 objection in particular cases, even with the character of 

 tobacco chiefly under consideration, and altogether inad- 

 missible, it may be, in the management of other varieties 

 of tobacco, this is a safe rule, we think, to follow in 

 general practice. 



"We favour 'priming' by all means; for when no 

 priming is done the lower leaves (made worthless by 

 constant whipping on the ground) serve only as a harbour 

 for worms, which are the more difficult to find because of 

 the increased burden of stooping. Moreover, if the bottom 

 leaves be saved on the cut stalk, as most likely they will 



