INDEX 



199 



Lettuce, 68 



Aphis, 190, 191 

 Liassic Measiires or Blue Clay, 1 53 

 Lice, 14 



on poultry, 32 

 Light Arches Moth, 38 

 Lime dressing, 138 



importance of, in soil, 178 

 Liveripf Sulphur Wash for beans, 



140 

 Liverfluke or Liver Rot in sheep, 



29, 30, 31, 58 

 Loam, 157 



Locust of the East, 14 

 Loganberry Disease, 148 

 London Clay, 153 



Magpie or Ciurant Moth, 92 

 Mangold Disease or Heart Rot, 138 

 Manual 5.ids, egg-search, hand- 

 picking, etc., 19 

 Manure, or "manoeuvre," 174 

 Manures, chemistry of, 167-178 



organic and inorganic, 174 

 March Moth, 79 

 Marls, 153, 157 



May-bug or Cockchafer Larva, 99 

 Meal Moth, 117 

 Mealy Bug, 112, 120 

 Melons, 123, 124 

 Midges, 16 



Microlepidoptera, 117 

 MiUi pedes, root eaters, 12, 97, 122 

 Mildew, 112, 122, 129, 133, 145 

 Mineral food, 129 

 Mites, Acarid, on sheep, 29 



on poultrj', 32 

 Mole Crickets on corn land, 42 

 Moles, beneficial action of, 70 

 Moths, Antler, 38, 39 



Cabbage, 17, 59-61 



Clothes, 117 



Codlin, 84 



Common Wainscot, 38 



Currant Clearwing, 92 



Death's Head, 71 



Diamond-backed, 50 



Drinker, 38 



Ear, 38 



Ermine, 112, 116 



Figure of Eight, 87 



Moths — cont. 



Flotmced and Square-spot Rus- 

 tic, 38 



Garden Swift, 70 



Ghost Swift, 70 



Gothic, 112, 114 



Grain, 43 



Grape Tortrix, 112, 118, 120 



Honeycomb, 34, 117 



Lackey, 80 



Light and Dark Arches, 38 



Magpie or Currant, 92 



Meal, 117 



Pea, 67 



Pith, 86 



Flume, 117 



Raspberry, 88 



Rosy Rustic, 70 



Shoot and Fruit, 89 



Silver Y, 63 



Snout, 117 



Tortrix, 117 



Tm-nip, 35, 43, 51 



Vapoiirer, 79 



Veneer, 117 



White Line Dart, 112, 115 



Winter, 77, 78, 79 



Wood Leopard, 75 



Yellow Shell, 38 



Yellow Underwing, 68, 112, 115 

 Moths, harmless, 38, 81 

 Mottled Umber Moth, 79 

 Mushrooms and Piiff -balls, 128, 



129 

 Mussel Scale Insect, 76 

 Mustard Beetles, 46 

 Myriapoda or many-footed crea- 



tui-es, 12, 97 

 Myxomycetes, or slime fungi, 129 



Natvu-al checks for pests, 1 9, 59, 79 

 conditions for crops and stock, 

 188 

 Nature veraiia Civilization, 1 8 

 Nets, butterfly and sweep, 2, 46 

 Neuroptera, or Nerve- wings, 14 

 New Red Sandstone, 153 

 Nine Great Orders of Insects, 12- 



17 

 Nits, or eggs of lice, 13 

 Noctuid, or Night-flying Moths, 60 



