614 INDEX TO 



Remedies for insect depredations — iConVd) . 

 benzine for Atropos divinatoria, ii, 199. 



for carpet beetles, i, 59; ii, 47 , 226 , 232; 

 v, 314; vii, 364; ix, 304 , 305. 



for leather beetle, iv, 89. 



for mites, vi, 161. 

 birds, ii, 7, 8, 82, 189, 224. 

 birds, protection of, i, 61. 

 bisulphide of carbon for, 



Angoumois moth, x, 383-384 , 485. 



American meal worm, ix, 308, 442. 



ants, x, 502. 



bean or pea weevil, v, 300; vi, 172; vii, 

 276-277, 367; ix, 439. 



cabbage fly, v, 266. 



grain moth, x, 383-384, 485. 



leather beetle, iv, 90. 



mites, vi, 170;*x, 450. 



peach root aphis, ii, 21-22; v, 315. 



root insects, ii, 24-35. 



£ quash borer, ii, 64. 



striped "cucumber beetle, ix, 363. 



weevils in grain, vii, 365; viii, 278; ix, 

 443, 491. 



Zeuzera pyrina, ix, 427. 

 blue-vitriol water, i, 59. 

 bone dust, ix, 363. 

 Bordeaux mixture, ix, 420; x, 459. 

 bottle-trap, ii, 33. 

 boxing for elm-leaf beetle, v, 314. 

 boxing trees for collecting pupae, ii, 228. 

 bran "and arsenic mash, ii, 197. 

 brimstone burned, vi, 161. 

 brine, ii, 200; v, 156. 



brushing bark with a stiff brush, ii, 187. 

 230, 232. 



buckwheat crop, v, 310; viii, 197. 

 buckwheat flour, iv, 191 . 

 burdock infusion, v, 158; ix, 362, 484, 486. 

 burning for 



apple-leaf Bucculatrix, v, 317. 



bag-worm, iv, 204. 



bark-borers, ii, 55; vii, 361. 



currant-stem girdler, viii, 166. 



flower cricket, v, 310. 



Fuller's rose-beetle, iv, 193. 



gall-insects, v, 308. 



gypsy moth, ix, 423, 424. 



larch saw-fly, vii, 367. 



locust-tree borer, vii, 363. 



maple-tree pruner, ix, 361. 



oak-pruner, v, 154. 



peach root aphis, ii, 21; iv, 118, 195. 



pear-blight beetle, v, 318. 



raspberry gouty-gall beetle, vi, 124. 



scale insects, ii, 230; iv, 118; vi, 144. 



tent-caterpillar, ix, 444. 



Tischeria apple-leaf miner, ix, 445. 



two-marked tree hopper, iv, 203. 



infested plants, iv, 77, 107, 190. 



REPORTS I-X 



Remedies for insect depredations — (Cont'd), 

 burning garden refuse, i, 58 , 269, 270 , 278; 

 ii, 167; iii, 107; iv, 200; vii, 353, 365; 

 viii, 213; ix, 316, 441. 

 grass to destroy chinch-bug, ii, 161, 

 . 16J. 223. 



srraes to destroy vagabond Crambus, 

 i, 148. 



straw to destroy canker-worm, ii, 9, 



225; v, 314. 

 straw to destroy joint-worm, iv, 33; 



v, 315. 



straw for 'striped blister-beetle, vi, 

 133. 



stubble, i, 58, 253; vii, 339. 



vines for stalk-borer, ii, 226. 

 camphor, ii, 35; v, 300; ix, 305. 

 capture in insect nets, ii, 93. 

 carbolic acid, iv, 191; ix, 418. 



and Paris green wash, viii, 184; x, 484. 



and soap, i, 59; iv, 119, 195. 



for bark borers, ix, 428. 



for carpet beetle, v, 314; vii, 357. 



for maple-tree scale-Insect, vi, 146. 



for mites in meat, iii, 131: v, 293. 



for quince-tree borer, viii, 280, 



for scale insects, vi, 146; viii, 216; ix, 

 441. 



for cucumber beetle, ix, 363. 



wash/.viii, 183, ?80. 



wash, Bateham's, vi, 154. 



with oils, ix, 442. 

 carbolated lime, ix, 420. 

 carbonate of copper solution, ix, 417. 

 carbonate of lime, ix, 420. 

 carbonic acid gas, ii, 110. 

 castile soap, ix, 444. 

 caustic potash, ix, 444. 

 chickens for flea beetles, i, 61; v, 301. 

 children collecting, viii, 243. 

 chloroform, vi, 129. 

 coal ashes, vii, 344. 

 coal-oil, viii, 241, 279. 

 coal soot, ix, 363. 

 coal-tar, iv, 191; viii, 256. 

 Cocculus indicus berries, ix, 352. 

 cold water, vii, 285. 

 cold water spraying, vii, 344, 360. 

 collecting and burning eggs, viii, 122 , 283. 

 .collecting the egg-belts, ix, 437, 441, 444. 

 concentrated lye, vi, 144. 

 copper compounds, ix, 463. 

 copper solution, ix, 359. 

 copperas, viii, 200. 

 copperas water, i, 59; ii, 67. 

 corn meal, ix, 444. 

 corrosive sublimate, ii, 17. 

 corrosive sublimate for bed-bugs, i, 62. 

 cotton bands on tree trunks, ii, 86. 

 creosote, ii, 35; v, 314; ix, 434. 

 cresy lie acid, ii, 35. 



