INDEX 



197 



Crane Fly or Daddy-long-legs, 

 parent of leather- jacket, 38, 

 100 

 Cretaceous or chalk deposit, 153 

 Crickets, 14 

 Crop rotation, 174 

 Cuckoo, and Lackey Moth larvse, 

 81 

 Spit Insect, 13, 14 

 Cucumbers, 123, 124 

 Cultivation, a simple lesson in, 



150, 159, 160 

 Currant Clearwrng Moth, 92 

 Gall Mite, 91 

 Moth, 92 

 Sawfly, 91 

 Scale, 90 



Daddy-long-legs or Summer Crane 



Fly, 14, 38, 100 

 Dark Arches Moth, 38 

 Darwin's Researches, 105, 162 

 Death's Head Hawk Moth, 70 

 Devices ol Nature, 173 

 Diamond-backed Moth, 50 

 Diptera or Two-wing Flies, 1 4, 1 1 2 



useful work of, 59, 116 

 Dispersal of Mammals, 55 

 Dragon-flies, 14 

 Drinker Moth, 38 

 Dry Hot of potatoes, 136 

 Dung Beetles, 104 



Ear Cockles of Wheat, 43, 44, 



Moth, 38 

 Earthworms, in the soil, 105, 162, 



163, 164, 165 

 Earwigs, 14, 15, 84 

 Eel worms, in clover, 36, 141 



in corn, 43 



in cucumbers and tomatoes, 

 124 



in strawberries, 93 

 Egg search, for pest destruction, 



60, 81, 88, 91 

 Eggar Moths, harmless varieties, 



81 

 Eocene deposits, 154 

 Ermine Moths, 112, 116 



Farm pests, 21 



stock, 21 ; fallow, 176, 178 



Ferrets, as rat catchers, 45 

 Figs, in greenhouses, 123 

 Figure of Eight Moth, 87, 123 

 Finger and Toe disease of turnips 



137 

 Fleas, 12, 185 



on poultry, 32 

 Flies, Asparagus, 62, 63 

 Beet, 64 

 Blue-bottle, 27 

 Bot, 23 



Cabbage Root, 62 

 Caddis, 16 

 Carrot, 68, 69 

 Celery, 69 

 Cheese, 16 

 Crane, 38, 100 

 Dragon, 16 

 Empis or Hawk, 14 

 Forest, 23 

 Frit, 39, 40 

 Gout,- 40 

 Green-bottle, 27 

 Green Lace wing, 14, 68 

 Hessian, 41 

 House, 16 

 Hover, 65, 76 

 Ichneumon, 16, 40, 50 

 Onion, 69 

 Ox Warble, 24 

 Ribbon-footed Corn, 40 

 Scorpion, 15 

 Sheep's Nostril, 26 

 Snowy, 62 

 Thunder, 66 

 Yellow-bottle, 23 

 Flounced Rustic Moth, 38 

 Flowers, characteristics of, 1 73 

 Foot Rot of sheep, 31 

 Forest Flies, 23 



Foul Brood or Bee pest, 34, 35 

 Four Great Orders of Plants, 128 

 French beans. Pod Canker of, 138 

 Fresh-air treatment for cucumbers 



and melons, 124 

 Frit Fly on corn, 39, 40 

 Fritillary Butterflies, 17 

 Frog Hoppers, 13, 14 

 Fruit Bark Beetle, 75 

 Tree pests, 73-92 



