IWW TO I) E STB or JXSECTS. 



the tbuml:). Everr ten days after the first round — 

 everv nine days if the weather is dry and warm — the 

 work should ])e repeated till the last week of August, 

 and again at the ch^se of tlie season after the fruit is 

 gathered." 



Tlirow lime on tlie trees wlien the dew is on, or just 

 after a rain, and after the fruit is set ; a bellows is good 

 for scattering it. The insects will not go where the 

 lime is scattered ; they will go away. 



ANTS. 



Mecipes for Destroying JLnts. 



1. Take four ounces of quassia-chips; boil for ten 

 minutes in a gallon of water, dissolving in the liquid 

 while cooling four ounces of soft-sOap. 



2. Take one pound of black soap, dissolve it in tour 

 gallons of water, and sprinkle the solution through a 

 fine rose over the riHis and nests, taking care, however, 

 not to water the roots of the plants with it. 



3. The following is a successful poison : ferrocyanide 

 of potassium, one drachm; raspings of quassia, oui^ 

 drachm : sugar in sufficient quantity to form a syrup. 

 The ants are said to devour this greedily and die almost 

 immediately. 



4. Fresh Peruvian guano will drive ants from any 



