HOW TO DESTROY INSECTS. 



Wood-lice, 



If they are so abundant as to be easil}' reached, pour 

 boiling hot water on them and into their haunts. 



Thej^ have a great partiality for potatoes^ and by 

 scatteriug these around tiiey will be attracted to thenij 

 when the hot water can be vigorously used. 



Flower-pots hlled with hay have been used^ and with 

 such good success that thousands have been killed. 



The pots arr laid ou tlieir sides, and once a day the 

 hay is lifted out of the pots; then shoot the wood-lice 

 into a pail of liot water. 



Jiorer and HarJc-Iouse. 



Ap})ly soft-soap and water to all fruit-tre3s in the 

 first week ot June. It not only exterminates the sap- 

 pers (bark-lice) ])ut banislu^s the miners (borers). 



Scrape tlie trees early in spring ; apply the soft-soap 

 first ot Juue, and again the first of Julj^, and do not 

 forget to adjust the cloth bands by the last of June. 



JSark-louse, 



This may be destroyed in springy just after hatching, 

 hy the application of alkaline washes, such as lye, soap- 

 suds, or Avhitewash. 



The eggs mider the scales may be killed duriug win- 

 ter by washing or syringiug the trees with coal-oil di- 

 luted with three parts of water. 



Carbouic acid gas, applied by the use of any vapor- 



