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A great drawbark in using weights is that horse clrojipiugs are not always of 

 the same weight." Tliis mixture is made in a half barrel and drawn on a 

 cart to the edge of an infested field, or one likely to be infested. The mixture 

 is then scattered broadcast along the edge of the croii by means of a trowel 

 or wooden paddle. Locusts are attracted to it from long distances and are 

 killed in large numbers by eating the jjoisou. If this mixture is distributed 

 as above, and .scattered loosely through the plants at the edge of a field of 

 standing grain, there is little danger of stock or iioultry being poisoned. 

 Should any of the mixture be left over, it should be scattered loosely over a 

 piece of land where its fertilising effects will be secured and where there will 

 be no danger of poisoning animals. This is in every way the cheapest and 

 most effective remedy for grassliopiicrs which I have ever tried. It has been 

 found by Jlr. Criddle that the most effective way of using this remedy is to 

 spread a little at a time every other day, which gives far better results than 

 scattering a lot at once, less frecpiently. — FIctrlici: 



TuRMP Flka-beetle 01! TfRNip FiA' { I'll iiUotrcId riltdta. Fab.). 



(Fig. SOb.) Enlarged eight times. 



Atlack. — Small active shining black beetles. %th of an inch long, with 

 yellowish marks on the wings, which eat the seed-leaves of turnips and other 

 cruciferous plants directly they apiiear aliove the gnnuid. Wlicn disturbed 

 they hop to some distance. 



Tlie injury by the Turnip Flea-beetle in hot. dry Junes is well known by 

 farmers in every part of Canada. The larvse have been round at Ottawa. 

 feeding on the leaves of Curled Cress, a plant belonging to the same family 

 as the turniii. but it is certain that this stage in the American insect is 

 generall.v passed on the roots. As soon as young turnips appear above ground 

 the beetles swarm on them and destroy the seed leaves, which are so 

 important to the young i)lants. freiiuentl.v destroying whole crops and making 

 it necessary to re-sow large areas. 



Remedies. — (1.) Taris green and land plaster, one pound of the former 

 to twenty of the latter, dusted along the rows of young turnips, if possible 

 when they are covered with dew, is an effective remedy against this trouble- 



