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June, it stunts the vines for the next season. One of the 

 best remedies is to dig a trench 2 to 3 feet wide, at the 

 side of the vineyard, from whence they are expected, into 

 which they will tumble, and they should then be crushed 

 by dragging a log or roller along the ditch. If this is done 

 repeatedly they may be kept out. It is a strange occur- 

 rence, however, that in the districts which they invaded 

 in 1875, nearly all other injurious insects have since dis- 

 appeared, and the crop of last season was exceptionally 

 free from their ravages. 



Wasps and Bees are sometimes very troublesome when 

 the fruit ripens, wounding the berries and sucking the 

 juice. A great many can be caught by hanging up bottles 

 with a little molasses, into which they will readily crawl 

 and seal their fate. But while there are many injuri- 

 ous insects, we may also count some of them among our 

 best friends, which will greatly assist in destroying the 

 others, and which we should hold in grateful remem- 

 brance. Among these is the little Lady Bug, the small 

 red or yellow and black beetle, which is always on the 

 look-out and very active in destroying the Aphis and 

 White Thrip. These should be fostered, and not de- 

 stroyed, as is done by many ignorant persons. The Man- 

 tis, the Bear Horse, or Devil's Horse, as it is often called, 

 but the correct name of which is Camel Cricket, is the 

 friend of the vine-grower. It destroys countless num- 

 bers of injurious insects, especially the native grasshop- 

 pers and katydids, which are so apt to cut off the bunches 

 just before ripening. They and their eggs, which are 

 often found on the vines glued together in a mass, like a 

 rather square cocoon, should be carefully preserved, and 

 even colonized. We place our common toad among our 

 friends, as it is a great destroyer of noxious insects, and 

 always on the hunt for bugs of all kinds. The toads and 

 our common active little lizards, sho-uld be treated with 

 kindness by us, not killed, as they are by many un think- 



