96 CABBAGES. 



patch; she picked off two pailsful, in tnree aays, 

 from three hundred heads of Cabbage ; and while 

 she was doing so, the green parts of the Cabbages 

 were nearly all demolished. Where there were fifty 

 thousand Cabbages in a piece, this way of removal 

 was not practicable. 



We immediately set to work and sprinkled the 

 Cabbages with lime, hoping this would drive them 

 off ; but it had not the slightest effect in arresting 

 their d.epredations. At this time a friend broke off 

 a Cabbage-leaf with one of these worms upon it, and 

 dusted the surface of the leaf and the body of the 

 worm with lime, so that he might closely watch the 

 result. While in this condition it ate a square inch 

 of the leaf in forty-two minutes. This was a satis- 

 factory evidence that the lime would not stop nor at 

 all inconvenience the worms while destroying the 

 Cabbage-leaves. 



■WOKM AND MOTH {Pieris ropfB). 



We then applied fine salt, carbolic powder, and a 

 dozen other specifics, but without any success. At 

 last we mixed with twenty parts of superphosphate 

 of lime, one part of carbolic powder, and three parts 

 of fresh air-slacked lime. These were thoroughly 



