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GENERAL REMARKS. 
known to be destructive to ants and various other smaE 
insects, but it is difficult to apply to plants. 
In the summer season, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, 
&c., are particularly subject to the ravages of grubs and 
caterpillars ; to prevent this wholly, is perhaps impossible, 
but it is not difficult to check these troublesome visitors ; this 
may be done by searching for them on their first appearance, 
and destroying them. Early in the morning, grubs may be 
collected from the earth, within two or three inches of such 
plants as they may have attacked the night previous. 
The approach of caterpillars is discoverable on the leaves 
of Cabbages, many of which are reduced to a thin white skin 
by the minute insects which emerge from the eggs placed on 
them ; these leaves being gathered and thrown into the fire, 
a whole host of enemies may be destroyed at once ; whereas, 
if they are suffered to remain, they will increase so rapidly, 
that in a few days the plantation, however extensive, may 
become infested ; and, when once these arrive at the butterfly 
or moth stage of existence, they become capable of perpetu- 
ating their destructive race to an almost unlimited extent. 
The same remarks apply to all other insects in a torpid state. 
Worms, maggots, snails, or slugs, may be driven away by 
sowing salt or lime in the spring, in the proportion of two to 
three bushels per acre, or by watering the soil occasionally 
with salt and water, using about two pounds of salt to foui 
gallons of water ; or the slug kind may be easily entrapped 
on small beds of plants, by strewing slices, of turnip on them 
late in the evening ; the slug or snail will readily crowd on 
them, and may be gathered up early in the morning (before 
sunrise) and destroyed. 
Moles may be annoyed and driven away, by obstructing 
the passage in their burrows with sticks smeared with tar. 
First insert a clean stick from the surface through the bur- 
rows; then 'dip others in tar, and pass them through into the 
floor of the burrows, being careful not to rub off the tar in 
the operation. Tar is also an effectual remedy against smut 
