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burrow from one inch to three or four inches, as the soil 

 is soft or hard. They wriggle in their holes until they 

 form a space for themselves their own shape ; now they 

 line it with a sticky, glossy substance to which the grains 

 of earth adhere. Now this becomes their cocoon and in 

 them they change to chrysalids. In sixteen days this 

 is finished, and they break their cells and crawl to the 

 surface where they appear as the winged fly, the point 

 from which we started. This second crop of flies for 

 the season comes on the Peninsula about the middle of 

 July to August first, and lay their eggs for a second 

 brood of slugs. These latter are again seen on the trees, 

 and dont reach their growth until September, when 

 they go into the ground as the first brood of slugs did. 

 This September brood remains in the ground all winter, 

 and they come out flies the next Ma)-, and so the wheel 

 revolves. Some may remain in the ground until the 

 second season before they come out as flies. 



The remedies for the slug are various. White helle- 

 bore, one pound to thirty gallons of water, and throw it 

 on the leaves by a fountain syringe, or through the rose 

 on the watering pot. White hellebore as sold is often 

 inert and useless ; snuff it a little and if it makes you 

 sneeze, it is good, if not, it will be of no use. Green 

 hellebore (our common polk root) will do as well and 

 can be gathered and dried for the purpose. Dust them 

 with any dust (road dust, plaster, lime, ashes, etc., will 

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