INDEX 



201 



Sand, 156 



Wasps, beneficial action of, 90, 

 112, 122 

 Sawfliee, 47, 8-1, 91 

 Scarabid Beetles, 111, 114 

 Scarlet runners. Pod Canker of, 



138 

 Scavenger Insects, 96 

 Sexton Beetles, 104 

 Sheep, behaviour of, in presence 

 of fly, 26 

 parasites, 29 

 Scab, 29 



Ticks or Keds, 28, 29 

 Sheep's Nostril Fly, 26 

 Shepherd's Purse, wild host of 



Cabbage Rust, 144 

 Shoot and Frviit Moth, 89 

 Silver Leaf of fruit trees, 148, 149 

 Silver Y Moth, 63 

 Skipjack Beetle, 98 

 Skipper Butterfly, 54 

 Slime fungi, 129 

 Slugs, Grey Field, Yellow House, 



Root and Bulb-eating, 101 

 Slugworm, or Pear and Cherry 



Sawfly, 87 

 Smallholder, the, and Insect 



Pests, 9-20 

 Smut on wheat, 143 

 Snails, Common Garden, 101 

 Strawberry and Banded, 102 

 Water (Limnax truncatula) in 

 connection with Liverfluke, 

 31 

 Wood, 102 

 and slugs, 100 

 Snags, or Slugworras, 87 

 Snout Moths, 117 

 Snowy Fly or Cabbage Powdered 



Wing, 62, 125 

 Soil, a living thing, 104, 105 

 analysis, 158 

 composition, 151-165 

 geology of English, 152, 153 

 health, 177 



six different kinds of, 156 

 test for sourness of, 157 

 Soil-dwellers, 95, 96, 161 

 Soldier and Sailor Beetles, 103 

 Spinning Mit«8 or Red Spider, 112 



Spontaneous generation, 183 

 Spores, life history of, 132, 133 

 method of checking germina- 

 tion of, 134 

 Spraying potatoes, times for, 135 

 Sprays, arsenate of lead, 84 

 Bordeaux and Burgundy, 135 

 liver of sulphur, 124, 125 

 paraffin emulsion, 83 

 soft soap and potaesivun sul- 

 phide, 124 

 and washes. Caustic alkali, 82, 

 89, 90, 91 

 Springtails, 97 



Square-spot Rustic Moth, 38 

 Stem-bud Caterpillar on rasp- 

 berries, 88 

 Stem Eelworm on strawberries, 93 

 Stock pests, 22-35 

 Stock, stampeding due to Warble 



Fly, 24 

 Stomata or breathing holes of 



leaves, 170 

 Stonehenge, action of earthworms 



on, 164 

 Strawberries, 93 



Leaf Spot disease, 146 

 Suctoria or Suckers, 12 

 Sugar beet. Heart Rot of, 138 

 Surface Caterpillars, and asters, 



61, 52 

 Swedes, Heart Rot of, 138 

 Swift Moths, 70 



Tapeworms in human beings and 



pigs, 181, 182, 183 

 Tar felt discs for Cabbage Root 



Fly, 62 

 Temperature in greenhouse, im- 

 portance of constancy, 109 

 Thrips, on beans, 64 



on com, 43 



on cucumbers, 123 



on grapes, 112 

 Thysanoptera, or Tassel-wings, 43 

 Thysanovira, or Bristle- tails, 96 

 Ticks or Keds on sheep, 28, 29 

 Tiger Beetle, 104 



Moth, 82 

 Tinea Moths, 117 



