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Slugs and Snails. 



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will be found to attract large numbers of slugs, which can then 

 be easily collected and put in pails of quick-lime. Good results 

 are said to have been obtained by using ordinary wood-ash, 

 dusted over the infested plants when dew was on the leaf. 



Where land has been badly infested with slugs and many 

 young slugs are seen, the soil should be dressed with gas-lime 

 in late autumn, and after six weeks deeply trenched. 



Snails are more difficult to deal with on a large scale, but are 

 more affected by soot than slugs. As long as soot is fresh they 



Fig. 2. — Runner Beans Devoured by Slugs. 

 ( The arrows point to the areas cleared by the slugs , which were not 

 dressed to prevent attack. ) 



do not care to crawl over it, and so may be kept away. In 

 gardens hand-picking is by far the best plan. Rockeries and 

 ferneries in gardens are generally centres from which snails 

 spread. All rough herbage on and around these should be 

 cleared off in winter, and the masses of snails collected and 

 destroyed, and the whole dusted with soot in the spring. Seed- 

 lings are best protected by heavy borders of lime. Rows of peas, 

 beans, &c, may also be protected by spreading barley-awns or 



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