HOW TO DESTROY IXSECl'S. 



kero8ene>oil ; this, sprinkled on the vines when the 

 dew is on, will generally answer for the season. If tlie 

 bugs return repeat the operation. 



I applied it this season on several thousand liills 

 of melons, cucumbers, etc., after the bugs had com- 

 menced operations, and have not since had a vine de- 

 stroyed. I have used it for several seasons with the 

 same result. This is safer and cheaper than Paris 

 green.'' 



May-hugs. 



A successful experiment was tried in Germany for 

 destroying May-bugs on a large scale. 



It is known that these ]nigs alwfiys select warm and 

 loose ground for the depositing of their eggs. 



Consequently seventeen artiheial breeding places 

 were prepared ])v covering fresli cow-dung with fine 

 earth, and by the middk- of July they were found full 

 of eggs or grul)s. 



After collecting these eggs, etc., they were burnt 

 outside the forest. 



A.ster-h\igs. 



Plaster sprinkled over the plants while wet with the 

 dew will put them to flight. It is also an efficacious 

 remedy for tlie rose- slug. 



Quassia-tea will also keep bugs from eating aster 

 flowers. 



