282 Insect Pests. 



full value the bushes should be sprayed twice at an interval of about 

 ten days, so as to kill any young which may have escaped from the 

 later eggs. 



The paraffin jelly mentioned may be made as follows : — 



Paraffin, 5 gallons ; soft soap, 8 lbs. ; boil together, and when 

 boiling add about one pint of water, and then well stir. 



This becomes a jelly when cold, and 10 to 11 lbs. of which are 

 added to 40 gallons of water. 



The above amounts make about 160 gallons of wash. 



This formula, used by Mr. Ballard of Pinvin, will be found quite 

 one of the best for this purpose, and also kills the Brown Scale at the 

 same time. 



SLUGS {Agriollmax agredi., Linn.) DAMAGING GOOSE- 

 BERRIES. 



Some three or four years ago, Mr. John Piley wrote regarding 

 the damage to young gooseberries by slugs, but as he was unable 

 to have any caught, the exact cause remained in doubt until 190(3. 



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Slugs have since been found to eat the base of the calyx, and then go 

 on to another gooseberry ; the gooseberries thus attacked die and fall 

 off (Fig. 194). 



Mr. Riley's manager, visiting Evesham, found that in one garden 

 the whole of the crop w^as destroyed, scarcely a gooseberry being 

 unbitten. This attack in that neighbourhood had been put down to 

 frost. Mr. Piley says : " AVe had a very bad attack on two or three 



