MOW TO DESTROY ISSECTS. 



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Me^nedy for Cabbage-tvorms. 



Buckwheat flour^ sifted tliroiigli a sieve early in the 

 evening or in the morning while the dew is on^ will 

 efFectuaily eradicate them. Two applications (and 

 often one) will do the work. It is preferable to helle- 

 bore^ or any other article^ for the purpose, and has the 

 advantage of being harmless. 



WORMS. 



Wire'Worms 



are very freqnent in fields once in grass and just con- 

 verted over into gardens. Cultivation will eradicate the 

 pest in tnne, as every time the land is dug the birds 

 will make a feast of the vermin, and the use of lime 

 and salt on the land ic]ie)i newly dug vj) will contrive 

 to thin them. 



But there is another very successful wa}' : soiv car- 

 rots in short rows in all the garden-beds occupied with 

 lettuces, onions, and other things that they usually de- 

 stroy. 



As long as they can find tlie'tr way to a feed of car- 

 rots they will desert everything e/se, just as slugs and 

 snails will quit everything else for lettuces. 



Sow the carrots quite thick, if broadcast^ if in gar- 

 den-beds, sow at intervals of about two yards across 

 every four-feet bed, and they will catch many vermin, 

 when you can drown them and dispose of them. 



