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When we have at hand a remedy so highly effective and 

 satisfactory as buhach, there is absolutely no reason why we 

 should search for other means, and I believe it is simply fooling 

 away time to experiment with hot water, ice water, solutions of 

 saltpetre or alum, or with pepper, road dust, or the many other 

 remedies of like nature recommended. Mr. A. S. Fuller also 

 reports that he has had the very best success in killing the worms 

 by sprinkling the infested plants with tar water. 



Celery Worm. — The caterpillars found on celery, parsley, 

 etc., which are the progeny of the asterias butterfly {Papilio 

 asterias) can be got rid of by the remedies recommended for the 

 cabbage worm ; but since they are hardly ever numerous, I have 

 always disposed of them by hand-picking. 



Corn or Boll Worm {Hcliothis armigerd). — The moth of this, 

 like the cabbage butterfly, is double-brooded ; the first brood 

 generally attacking the very early varieties of sweet and other 

 corn varieties, and the second brood doing 

 considerable damage to the late varieties, so 

 that the intermediate sorts usually escape 

 altogether. The fruit of tomatoes, bean and 

 pea pods, and vine fruits are also occasion- 

 ally attacked. The only remedy that prom- 

 ises relief, is to hand-pick the first brood of 

 larvae, found on early sweet corn, and to 

 destroy them, thereby rendering the attacks 

 of the subsequent brood less serious. It is 

 sometimes recommended to bait and catch 

 (drown) the moths by means of a mixture of molasses and vinegar. 

 Cucumber Beetle {Diabrotica vittata). — Of all the insects 

 in the garden, the little creature that wears a yellow-striped suit, 

 and troubles young cucumber, melon, squash and pumpkin plants 

 is probably the worst, and diflEicult to deal with. Hiding away 



the whole patch so the 

 beetles cannot easily 

 find it, by changing 

 location (the "wide 

 rotation " spoken of) 

 is yet one of the very 

 best methods ; but this 

 cannot well be prac- 

 ticed in the home gar- 

 den, and here we may often adopt the plan of hiding away 

 individual plants or hills, either by placing a simple frame or 

 bottomless box around them, as here illustrated, or by 

 covering them with muslin-covered plant protectors, or with 

 little pieces of muslin fastened down to the ground at the four 



Corn, Boll or Cotton 

 Worm. 





Frame for Protecting Young Vines. 



