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mounding up the trunks of the trees 

 in June with tine earth. By this the 

 young larva, or borer, cannot Hnd his 

 way in to the tender bark of the root, 

 where his pleasure is to girdle the tret' 

 before he emerges to enjoy his honors 

 as a full grown moth. The larva when 

 full grown is about half an-inch long 

 and of a pale whitish-yellow colour ; 

 its ugly red head, and black paws are 

 only too familiar to those of us who 

 have year after year had to fish them 

 out of our damaged peach trees, until 

 we learned that '' one ounce of preven- 

 tion was worth a pound of cure." If 

 however anyone has neglected the 

 proper precaution the only means of 

 saving the tree is by faithfully digging 

 out the grub as soon as fruit season is 

 over. Its presence may be very easily 

 detected by the secretion of gum just 

 at tiie surface of the ground. A little 

 clearing away of the earth, and a little 

 probing with the knife or awl, and the 

 scalawag will be found, doing his best 

 to girdle the tree before his little trick 

 is discovered. 



Remedies. 



Thf. botanical division of the [Michi- 

 gan Board of Agriculture publishes the 

 following remedies : — 



For downy mildew and black rot of 

 the grape: — Solution of sulphate of 

 copper — one pound of sulphate in 

 twenty five gallons of water. 



For soaking grains before sowing to 

 destroy smut : — Solution of sulphate of 

 copper — Hve to eight pounds of sul- 

 phate in ten gallons of water. 



For blight and rot of the tomato 

 and potato : — Bordeaux mi.xture — 

 four pounds sulphate of copper — four 

 pounds lime and twenty-two gallons 

 water. 



For mildew and apple scab : — " Kau 

 Celeste'-Dissolveone pound of sulphate 

 of copper in two gallons of hot wator, 

 and when the water has cooled add one 

 and a half pints of commercial ammonia 

 (twenty-two), and when used dilute to 



twenty-two gallons. The above is .also 

 sometimes modified by the addition 

 of two and ;i half pounds of carbonate 

 of soda. 



For mildew on roses, celery leaf 

 blight, pear and apple scab : — Sulphide 

 of potassium — one (|uarter to one ounce 

 to the gallon ; also solution of hypo- 

 sulpliite of soda — one pound of soda 

 to ten gallons of water. 



For mildew on grape vines :— " Li- 

 quid Grison " — boil three pounds each 

 of flowers of sulphur and lime in six 

 gallons of water until reduced to two 

 gallons ; when settled pour ofi' the 

 clear li(juid and bottle it ; for use mix 

 one part with one hundred parts of 

 water. For powdery mildew of the 

 vine, simple solution of half-a-pint of 

 carbolic acid in ten gallons of water. 



Sulphur in the powder is also used 

 for grape mildew and the powdery 

 mildew of the vine. 



For tomato and potato blight and 

 rot: — Sulphated sulphur — thoroughly 

 mix three to eight pounds of anhydrous 

 sulphate of copper, with nine to ten 

 pounds of flowers of sulphur, or mi.x 

 two pounds of the copper with twenty 

 pounds of the sulphur and two pounds 

 of air-slacked lime. Other similar 

 remedies are also <'iven. 



Cut- Worms and Striped Bug's. 



A WRITER in The Farmer gives the 

 following remedies : — Paris green mix- 

 ed with ten times its weight of flour 

 and sprinkled on sod cut in little 

 squares of 2.\ or three inches, inverted 

 aiul placed at intervals along the rows 

 of cabbages, will kill cut worms. They 

 crawl under the sod, eat the poisoned 

 grass and die. I have found a half 

 clozen dead under one piece of sod. 



Take a stick six or eight inches long, 

 wrap it with cloth, saturate with kero- 

 sene and stick in the st|uash and 

 cucumljer hills, and the pestiferous 

 little striped bug will stay away. He 

 likes squash but not to the degree that 

 he dislikes kerosene. 



