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General Index 



Remedies for — (_Continued) : 

 nitrate of soda, 372, 418, 441 . 

 offensive odors, 363. 



Paris green, 297, 336, 341, 343, 345, 372, 374, 

 415-416, 417(3), 423, 428, 432-433, 434, 443. 

 peroxide of silicates, 363. 

 Persian insect powder, 352. 

 phosphates, 418 . 



planting beans with cucumbers, 363. 

 poisonous coating, 363 . 

 potash salts, 418. 

 pyrethrum, 312, 314, 363,. 371, 418, 420, 441. 



with flour, 442, 

 raupenleim, insect lime, 425. 

 removal of the outer bark of the tree, 428- 



429. 

 road dust, 336. 

 saltpetre, 363. 

 sludge-oil soap, 418, 420 . 

 slug shot, 363. 



soap suds, 345, 369, 370, 441(2) . 

 sulphate of copper, 434. 

 sulphur, 352, 442. 

 tar, 442, 444. 

 tarred paper, 431 . 

 tobacco, 345, 369, 370, 371,372,418,419, 420, 



441, 442. 

 trapping with leaves, 316, 441 . 

 turpentine, 352. 



and land plaster, 363 . 

 whale-oil soap, 370, 440. 

 white arsenic and lime, 434-435 . 

 whiting, 418. 

 wood ashes, 372. 

 X. O. dust, 418, 420. 

 Remedy for the — 



American meal-worm, 308, 309, 442. 



apple-leaf miner, 445. 



apple tree aphis, 372, 373, 431-432. 



bark-louse, 373. 



Bucculatrix, 445. 



teat- caterpillar, 436, 441. 

 army -worm, 443. 

 bean weevil. 439. 

 bed-bug, 458. 

 beet-leaf miners, .375. 

 black blister beetle, 443. 

 black-rot, 436. 

 blight in asters, 372. 

 brown-rot, 369, 417. 

 cabbage aphis, 432. 



butterfly, 442. 



fly, 431. 



maggot, 418. 



worm, 444. 

 cherry-tree aphis, 345-346, 369, 440. 



slug, 336. 

 cluster-fly, 312, 314, 439. 

 codling-moth, 341, 417, 433. 435. 

 Colorado potato bsetle, 297. 

 cow-horn fly, 442. 

 curculios, 361, 365, 415, 416. 

 currant aphis, 370. 



Remedy for the — (^Continued) : 



ehn-tree bark-borer (Saperda), 428-429. 



elm-tree borer (Zeuzera), 426-427. 



eye-spotted bud-moth, 373. 



flea-beetle, 375. 



fleas, 352-353. 



fungous diseases, 436. 



grain moth (Sitotroga), 308, 309. 



grain weevils (Calandra, Silvanus, etc.), 



308, 309. 

 grape curculio, 364-365. 

 grapevine leaf -hopper, 430. 

 Gypsy moth, 423, 424, 425, 432-433, 434. 

 harlequin cabbage-bug, 316-317, 441. 

 Indian cetonian, 443. 

 leaf blights, 436. 



miners, 376. 



rollers, 374. 

 maple-tree borer, 442. 



pruner, 361 . 

 meal-worm, 442. 

 oak-pruner, 361. 

 peach- bark Scolytus, 365. 

 pear-leaf blister, 442. 

 pear-tree aphis, 369. 



borer, 366. 



mite, 442. 



psylla, 329, 4.30, 441 . 



slug, 336,440. 

 pea-weevil, 439. 

 plant-lice, 418. 

 plum aphis, 369. 



curculio, 417, 433, 434. 

 plum-leaf fungus, 417. 

 potato-scab, 4.36. 

 powdery mildew, 436. 

 raspberry borer, 457. 

 red spider, 432. 

 root grubs, 444. 

 root-inhabiting aphis, 371 . 

 rose-bug, 418, 420 . 

 rose-leaf roUer, 418. 

 scale insects (Coccidae), 447, 454. 

 scurfy bark louse, 441. 

 strawberry root.grub, 443. 



slug, 431. 



weevil, 431. 

 striped cucumber beetle. 362, 363, 364, 419. 



flea beetle, 375. 

 tarnished plant-bug, 375. 

 tent caterpillars, 433, 444. 

 thousand-legged worms, 372. 

 thrips on cabbage, 444. 

 turnip-flea beetle, 375. 

 weevil in a granary, 444. 

 white grub, 353-354. 

 white-pine weevil, 345. 

 remotepunctata, Calandra, 308. 

 Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture 



cited, 317, 340, 341. 

 Report of the Commissioner of Patents cited, 

 317, 356. 



