66 HOW TO DESTROY IS SECTS. 



Alternate rows of onions, lettuces, etc., with carrots 

 may be sown, and tiie worms will leave all to go to the 

 carrots for food. 



Wire-worms in Turf I/and. 



A cultivator who for several years had been dread- 

 ful^ pestered with wire-worms, and his potatoes, tur- 

 nips, carrots, and other roots were pierced through and 

 through with this pest, had a thought occur to him of 

 <oi application of spent gas-tar lime. 



Two cartbads were obtained from the gas-woikK, 

 and were mixed with six times as much good soil and 

 manure, each in equal quantities. 



This was spread in the ground in November, and 

 dug in a spade deep ; then in the spring potatoes and 

 other general crops were planted with stable-manure. 

 Excellent crops were realized that year and afterwards, 

 and not a single wire-worm could be detected after that 

 dressing. 



It is very important not to overdose with the gas- 

 lime 5 dilute it well with soil and manure. 



It is also excellent br destroying grubs. 



Coal-ashes for Currant-worms. 



Cnrrant and gooseberry bushes have been kept free 

 from the currant-worm bv mulching heavily with coal- 

 ashes. 



The ashes also have another and unexpected value 

 viz., keeping the ground cool and moist, so that even 



