EOn' TO DESTROY IXSECTS. 



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Mose-chafer. 



Spread sheets under plants attacked. Shake well ] 

 the insects will fall and may be quickly destroyed. 



Badish-fly. 



Hot water has been used with some success. 



Coclx roaches, Crickets, etc. 



Place bell-glasses, bottles, smooth or glazed pans^ 

 so that the sides are in a slanting position, and fill 

 them with treacle and water^ in which the insects 

 drown themselves. 



Cockroaches may be destroyed with certainty by 

 using a mixture of one part arsenic, one part white 

 sugar, and one part lard, all tlie three to be white. It 

 is essential th;it the arsenic be white, or failure will re- 

 sult. 



Destruction of Coclxchafers. 



A French gardener adopted this ingeniou^^ method : 

 " After sunset I place in the centre of my orcliard an 

 old barrel, the inside of which I have previously well 

 tarred. At the bottom of the borrel I place a lighted 

 lamp. Insects of many kinds, attracted by the light^ 

 make for the lamp, and while circling round it strike 

 "against the sides of the barrel, where, meeting with the 

 tar. their wings and legs become so clogged that they 

 fall helpless to the bottom. In the morning I examine 

 the barrel, and frequently take out of it ten or twelve 

 gallons of cockchafers, vrhich I at once dr>tr(»y. A few 



