buds are not removed they will soon ex¬ 
haust themselves with excessive blooming. 
When growing where they are to stay, 
about a square foot of space should be 
allowed* for each plant. Frequent stirring 
of the soil is necessary between the plants 
until they are too large. If the plants are 
starved, the color and size of flowers will 
be a disappointment; if too crowded only 
the first few flowers will be satisfactory. 
Land plaster is beneficial, but ashes must 
be avoided. 
Fighting Cut Worms. 
BY A. G. TILLINGHAST. 
Last June, this coast had a visitation of 
cut worms. In numbers they exceeded 
anything I ever experienced. I had just 
set out 3000 choice Early Jersey Wakefield 
cabbage plants for seed stock. I first no¬ 
ticed some of them cut down and dug out 
and killed the worms that did the work, 
and set in the missing plants. The next 
night more were cut, and worms seemed 
to be increaing. Besides these cut off, 
many plants had leaves cut off and holes 
eaten into. I thought it would be a good 
scheme to visit the patch by night with a 
lantern and catch the rascals while feeding 
on the plants. To know where to find 
them at work, I placed some in a box of 
dirt which had a cabbage plant stuck in, 
and put it near my bed. I awoke about 
eleven o’clock and found the worms had 
come out of the dirt and were feeding on 
the plant, so, judging their brothers were 
doing the same thing out in the field, I 
took my lantern and went out to harvest 
them. Sure enough, there they were, some 
on nearly every plant in the field, and four 
or five on some specimens. Previously in 
digging them out of the ground I had 
found as high as nine around a single plant, 
and had dug over 1000 from one row of 
250 plants. Well, I worked several hours 
that night, picking cut worms and putting 
them in a tin dish. The night air was cool 
and damp and my fingers got chilly. I had 
about a quart of the wriggling, disgusting 
things, and then looked over the rows 
again that I first wormed, and found to 
my dismay, a second army of invaders 
arrived. The early worms had got caught 
that time, and I was too cold and sleepy to 
catch any more, so leaving the later arriv¬ 
als in the field, I went to bed, leaving thou¬ 
sands to forage upon my choice cabbages. 
The next day I felt the effects of the 
night’s work and exposure and loss of sleep, 
and concluded I had rather do a whole 
day’s work by daybght, than three hours 
by night. So I tried putting something on 
the plant that would be distastefnl to the 
Voracious gormands. I tried the kerosene 
emulsion and Pyrethrum decoction, but 
neither were effectual. If anything, the 
worms cut the plants down worse than 
before. I dared not try Paris green or 
other poisons, as I had a valuable horse 
that liked cabbage. I wrapped strips of 
paper around the stems of the plants as I 
re-set them, and as I had set in about 2000 
in the field of 10000, we then got down on 
our knees and wrapped paper around the 
remainder. This saved them, but many of 
them were trimmed of their leaves. Still 
we conquered, and to-day those cabbages 
are yellow with Blooms and promise a 
bounteous yield of seed. The cut worms 
disappeared as suddenly as they came and 
I was not troubled with them after July 1. 
Padilla, Wash. Ter., May 11, 1885. 
To Make a Fire and Water-proof 
Cement. 
To half pint of vinegar add the same 
quantity of milk; separate the curd, and 
mix the whey with the whites of five eggs; 
beat it well together, and sift into it a suf¬ 
ficient quantity of quicklime, to convert it 
to the consistency of a thick paste. Broken 
vessels mended with this cement never 
afterwards separate, for it resists the action 
of both fire and water. The above cement is 
similar to what is sold by peddlers on the 
streets of Chicago, at twenty-five cents a 
bottle worth about five cents. 
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UUCatalogue and two medals, 10c. Birds Egg and 
Skin Lists for stamp. W. F GREANY, 
4-6 827 Brannan St., San Francisco, Cal. 
ir\vrU!np Choir mighty taught 
. * by mail or personally, 
lituations procured ftll pupils when competent, 
end for circular. W. C. CHAFFEE. Os wego> N. S, 
