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come to the light and are caught in the sticky matter. 

 (b) Take half a pound of sugar, dissolve it in beer, 

 and boil the mixture until the two substances are 

 thoroughly mixed. After dark fasten a bull's-eye 

 lantern on a belt, put a few spoonfuls of rum into the 

 beer and take a gauze net, usually called a butterfly net. 

 Mark all the convenient spots, such as patches of bare 

 walls and trunks of trees, and on these with a brush 

 bestrew the sugar and beer liberally within the circle 

 of light thrown by the lantern, and so on from station 

 to station, not using the treacle so thinly that it runs. 

 In half an hour examine the treacled patches, and the 

 moths will be so eagerly engaged upon their feast that 

 they may readily be captured or killed. Not only 

 upon the sugar will the moths be found, but sitting 

 on the neighbouring plants, walls, or even ground, 

 and the entomological net will be handy for capturing 

 them. Many garden foes beside Cabbage Moths like 

 treacle ; even a board painted with the sugared mixture 

 and placed in a room where the windows are open 

 will give a rich harvest of Cabbage Moths and that 

 means, if they are captured and killed, fewer cater- 

 pillars for preying on Cabbages and Savoys. 



2. Where the Cabbage Moth caterpillar has been 

 much in evidence on the autumn Cabbage tribe crops, 

 the pupae or chrysalids will be turned up in great 

 numbers at the winter digging. These should be 

 collected into a basket and given to poultry or at once 

 destroyed. Fowls are particularly fond of the pupae, 

 and on an infested plot will even scratch for them. 



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