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them. When on small areas, outside or in the greenhouse, 

 we find about the best plans are to lay fresh bones, or pa- 

 per covered with molasses, around their haunts. These 

 they will come to in large numbers. They should be re- 

 moved daily, and burned or otherwise destroyed. Another 

 method that we have found more destructive to them 

 than any other, is to puff Pyrethrum or Persian Insect 

 Powder from a strong bellows among them. The small- 

 est particle of this powder at once chokes and kills them, 

 though it must strike them dry to be effective; for we 

 find that when the powder lies damp on the floor, they 

 will run over it, and even burrow in it with impunity. 

 Nothing I have ever tried will "poison" Ants. Either 

 their instinct causes them to avoid it, or else they are not 

 affected by it. 



Angle Worms probably do no harm to plants ex- 

 cept to disturb and "glue up" the soil, but this is to 

 some extent hurtful to plants grown in pots or on 

 benches in greenhouses. A simple remedy is to slack 

 one pound of lime in fifteen or twenty gallons of water; 

 let the lime settle to the bottom, using only the clear 

 water, which will be sufficiently impregnated with lime 

 to destroy the worms. The same remedy can also be ap- 

 plied in the open ground; but Angle Worms do but little 

 harm in the garden. In placing plants in pots out-doors 

 or on an earth bench in the greenhouse, first sprinkle 

 over with lime, which will prevent the worms entering 

 '-he pots through the drainage holes. 



