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into the soil, I think he will have no more trouble, 

 as I have never known a plant to be destroyed 

 when treated in that way. It I am not mistaken, 

 the worm crawls along- on the surface of the 

 ground at night, and, after cutting off the plant, 

 burrows himself near the stump. Of coui-se, tin 

 cut into strips about as wide as the tin separators 

 used in your hives, and folded so as to be nearly 

 like a can, would be just as good. B. D. Bakton. 

 East Hampton, Ct., June 33, 1888. 



Thank you, friends. Friend Barton, liow- 

 ever, seems to overlook the fact that our 

 transplanting-tubes are just the thing for 

 this purpose, and I believe it has been men- 

 tioned before. The only trou])le is in hav- 

 ing eitlier paper or tin tubes enough for a 

 whole lield of melons, cabbage, tomatoes, 

 and the like. Still, if the cut-worms are 

 very bad I suppose it would pay to have tin 

 tubes enough to save a whole acre of plants, 

 especially the tomato-plants ; for they are 

 so far apart it would not take very many, 

 and the early crop will generally sell for 

 enough more to pay for the tubes a good 

 many times over. While on the subject of 

 insect-enemies, we give you a cut below of 

 the wire-cloth bug-protector. 



THE BUG-PROTECTOR, AND HOW TO MAKE IT. 



On page 424, June 1st issue, I promised to 

 give you a cut of the above arrangement. 

 The wooden box is the form on which the 

 wire cloth is folded. The top of the box is a 

 foot square. The sheet of wire cloth is 18 

 inches square. Any one can, in a few min- 

 utes, learn to fold up the sheets of wire 

 cloth, as shown in the cut. We also use a 

 smaller size, made of a piece of wire cloth 

 only a foot square. This answers for sin- 

 gle plants, or where the hill is small. 

 These protectors saved our vines when 

 those all around us were almost entirely de- 

 stroyed. At first we were somewhat puz- 

 zled to tind bugs inside of the protector, and 

 even after we were sure we had destroyed 

 every bug before putting it on. The ex- 

 planation is, that the bugs either burrow in 

 the ground or hatch out in the ground, I 

 do not know which. Can Prof. Cook tell 

 us ? But if you go around the second time, 

 and destroy every bug, and dig around the 

 stems of the plants, to be sure none are 

 lurking there, you will have no further 

 trouble. Digging around the stems of the 

 plants will be worth all it costs, in making 

 the plants grow. The bugs last with us 

 only ten days or two weeks ; and if you are 

 busy, and do not get around to take the 

 boxes off, the squashes will just hoist them 

 up, holding them as if it were an umbrella. 

 At this stage you can gather your screens, 

 and store tliem away until wanted ; then 

 with a sharp steel rake work the soil up 

 fine for 18 inches around the hill, and i)ull up 

 fine dirt enough to make a dust blanket, or I 



mulch, such as I told you about last year, 

 and your crop is almost a sure thing. By 

 the way, a neighbor of mine told me yester- 

 day he had got something as good or better 

 than the wire protectors. His plan is sim- 

 ly to drench the vines, as soon as they show 

 above ground, with liquid poiilh-y manure. 

 This does not kill tlie bugs — oh, no! but 

 they are so disgusted that they go off hold- 

 ing their noses (this latter may have been 

 drawn somewhat from imagination), and 

 then they look out for your neighbor's 

 vines, where he does not make things so 

 unpleasant. Please remember, that the 

 time to get a good market and a good price 

 for your melons, squashes, etc., is when the 

 bugs are sure to eat up all that your iieigh- 

 bors may plant. 



THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



for June is now out. The special topic is that of 

 " Removing Queens near the Close of the Harvest." 

 It is contributed to by such men as E. France, G. M. 

 Doolittle, Prof. Cook, F. Boomhower, James Nipe, 

 and Dr. Miller. It also contains a long editorial in 

 which the editor gives in detail his experience in 

 " feeding back " i;:i,(l(Xi pounds of honey to secure 

 the completion of unfinished sections. "Feeding 

 back" is to be the special topic of the July No.; 

 and contributions on this subject will be gladly re- 

 ceived. All such as are used will be paid for. 



Price of the Review, .'iO cts. a year. Samples 

 free. Back numbers can be furnished. lOtfdb 



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W. Z. HUTCHINSON, 



613 Wood St. Flint, Mich. 



[^"In respoiKliiii? to thi.s advertisement mention Gleanings. 



1%'pt Colonies of Italian and hybrid bees for sale, 

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LOOK HERE ! 



r will sell Italian queens from one of 

 A. I. Root's imported queens. One 

 untested queen, $1.00. Tested queen, 

 $2.00. Select tested queen, $3.00. I 

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''■'" DR. L. L. LOOMIS, 



6-17b Pemberville, Wood Co., O. 



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