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effective trap that I know, and which not infrequently 

 draws the pest towards it by reason of the shelter it 

 affords, is a wet or damp sack, or slate or board if 

 these latter can be placed. Slugs revel in uniform 

 moisture, and the wet sack never fails to harbour 

 them. They seek shelter, too, beneath evergreen 

 alpines, Mossy Saxifrage, Aubrietia, Ramondia, etc., 

 and these and like habited subjects should be 

 examined from time toitime. Hand picking, slow and 

 irksome though it be, has still to be resorted to. In 

 searching for the slug watch also for its eggs; their 

 destruction will stem the rising flood. The best slug 

 trap we have tested is the V.T.H. This is filled with 

 salt-water and baited with dry bran. It is most effec- 

 tive. 



The Short-Tailed Yole is occasionally troublesome, 

 but is by no means comparable to the slug. It is par- 

 ticularly fond of all the Pink tribe, also Campanulas 

 and other plants. As it is capable of doing much mis- 

 chief in a short time it should never be neglected. The 

 best trap is the small break-back mouse-trap, baited 

 with green food, e.g., Carnation leaves cut into inch 

 long lengths. Occasionally birds at nesting time will 

 carry away whole tufts of mossy or other Saxifragas, 

 which they leave alone if the plants are dusted with 

 matured soot or sprayed with quassia solution to 

 render them distasteful. 



