most satisfactory way to overcome them is to make a bottomless box 

 twelve inches square, and six or eight inches deep, and cover it with 

 mosquito netting. One of these boxes placed over each hill until 

 the plants have become tough and hard, is a sure protection. 



The Potato Beetle. — The potato beetle has evidently become a 

 permanent resident among us. I'aris green extended with plasier, 

 flour or water, is the only cheap and easily applied remedy known at 

 present, but great care must be exercised in its use and especially in 

 the place where the package is kept, that it may not get upon the 

 food of animals. 



Cabbage W okm. — The cabbage worm, the larvae of the common 

 white butterfl}^ may be easily destroyed in several ways. That of 

 hand picking, if begun before the first brood have passed into its 

 perfect state, is effectual. We have also found that pyrethrum powder 

 mixed with five times its bulk of plaster and dusted into the centre 

 of the leaves with sul|)hur bellows, is certain destruction to every 

 one of them. The application of insecticides in liquids to the cab- 

 bage has not been satisCactory on account of the peculiar structure of 

 the leaf surface which allows the water to roll off in drops and not 

 adhere to any part of it. Paris green is unsafe to use after the 

 leaves have become over four inches in diameter. 



Currant Worm. — The currant worm should be destroyed, while 

 small, with the dust of hellebore or pyrethrum. The latter being 

 perfectly harmless is to be more highly recommended. 



Plum Weevel. — There are two certain methods of capturing the 

 plum weevil, the first by jarring the tree early in the morning and 

 catching them upon sheets stretched below upon a frame or upon the 

 ground, and the second by placing chicken coops under the trees. 

 The former method must be attended to regularly every morning for 

 three weeks after the plums have set, and in the latter case, if the 

 number of trees is large, a large flock of chickens will be required to 

 make that remedy effectual. 



Codling Moth. — No positive remedy against the ravages of this 

 insect has as yet been found. It is claimed that paris green sprayed 

 over the tree in water is effectual, but should it prove so, it is far too 

 dangerous a remedy to apply where grass or other crops are growing 

 under them. 



Apple and Peach Borer. — For the destruction of these two 

 insects no sure remedy has been found except the knife. It is pro- 

 bable that covering the trunk of the tree near the ground with the 



