PROCEEDINGS OF THE FARMERS' CLUB. 37t 



The Chairman said that he had known peas to be preserved 

 from the weevil by salting them in the barrels. 



Mr. Fuller said that the peas and grain are stung when green, 

 so that if salt prevented the weevil it must have been by killing 

 the insect. 



ROSE GRUB. 



Dr. Trimble read a query, from a correspondent, as to the re- 

 medy for the insect that eats the rose leaves in summer. 



Mr. Carpenter said that the slug came upon the upper side of 

 the leaf about four o'clock in the afternoon, and could be easily 

 destroyed by powdered lime, 



Dr. Waterbury said that the term " slug " was not properly 

 applied to insects but to molluscs. This is a grub, becoming a 

 miller after its metamorphosis. 



Dr. Trimble believed that the lime did not hurt them a bit. 

 They fall from the leaf to the ground, penetrate it, and the next 

 summer come out in the form of a fly. 



BOTS IN HORSES. 



Dr. Trimble read another query, as to the cause and cure of 

 bots. 



Dr. Waterbury said that the bot-fly lays its eggs in the summer 

 upon the fore legs of the horse, which the horse works off" with 

 his teeth and swallows. The eggs are hatched within the horse, 

 and are transformed to the fly in the manure heap, Bots ar© 

 caused by an inordinate development of these larv^; but tho 

 reason for the delay of the eggs in passing through, and for the 

 inflammation, he could not give. 



Mr. Gale had seen the stomach of a horse eaten through, in a 

 case of the death of the horse from bots. His plan was to keep 

 the horse in good condition, giving him salt frequently, and if 

 eating much grain, throwing in a little ashes with his food. 

 The bots were probably inordinately developed by the morbid- 

 ness of the stomach. 



Mr. Henry said that if milk and molasses are given to a 

 horse troubled with bots, they will leave the coats of the stomach 

 to feed upon them, and alum will then cause them to pass ofi". 



Dr. Trimble said that the eggs are probably hatched upon the 

 fore legs of the horse, and, causing some irritation there, are 

 licked ofi" to allay the irritation, and are thus carried into the 

 stomach. So long as the horse is well fed, they are no injury to 



