HOW TO DESTROY INSECTS. &> 



Remedy for Cabbage-worms. 



Buckwheat flour, sifted through a sieve early in the 

 evening or in the morning while the dew is on, will 

 effectually eradicate them. Two applications (and 

 often one) will do the work. It is preferable to helle- 

 bore, or any other article, for the purpose, and has the 

 advantage of being harmless. 



WORMS. 

 Wire-worms 



are very frequent in fields once in grass and just con- 

 verted over into gardens. Cultivation will eradicate the 

 pest in time, as every time the land is dug the birds 

 will make a feast of the vermin, and the use of lime 

 and salt on the land when newly dug up will contrive 

 to thin them. 



But there is another very successful way : sou? car- 

 rots in short rows in all the garden-beds occupied with 

 lettuces, onions, and other things that they usually de- 

 stroy. 



As long as they can find their way to a feed of car- 

 rots they will desert everything else, just as slugs anu 

 snails will quit everything else for lettuces. 



Sow the caiTots quite thick, if broadcast; if in gar- 

 den-beds, sow at intervals of about two yards across 

 every four-feet bed, and they will catch many vermin, 

 when you can drown them and dispose of them. 



