GENERAL REMARKS* 13 



to wet the whole ; after which mix it with plaster of Paris, 

 so as to separate and render it fit for sowing." Fish oil is 

 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 ; to 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 morningj 

 grubs may be collected from the earth, within two or three 

 inches of such plants 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 

 dre, 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, 

 waay become infested ; now, when once these arrive at the 

 butterfly or moth stage of existence, they become capable of 

 perpetuating 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 and water, to the quantity of about two pounds of 

 salt to fourgallons 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 slugs or snails will 

 readily croud 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 as a borer; then dip others in tar, and pass them 

 through into the floor of the burrows, being careful not to 



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