certain or destroy larvae, or miller? What 
could Cabbage, or Cauliflower be expressed for,or 
rather express charges from La Plume, to Gale- 
m, per thousand? 
(3) Do seedsmen take eyes from small, as well 
as large potatoes? What is your expt rienee in 
ihe comparative difference between planting 
small and large potatoes? It has appeared to the 
writer, that the same principle that permeates 
and is practised upon in the auimal kingdom 
should also be observed in the vegetable, al¬ 
though farmers usually plant small or medium 
sized ones. 
Very Reep ctfully, 
G W. Fuller. 
Answer: —(l) The green cabbage worm 
was a few years ago very destructive in this 
vicinity, but for 2 or 3 years past they have 
not been plentiful enough to do any seri¬ 
ous damage by reason of a parasitic insect 
which works destruction to them while in 
chrysalide form, and we have paid but 
little attention to them. If any of our 
readers have discovered or practised any 
remedy which has proved effectual in pro¬ 
tecting the cabbage against their ravages 
we shall be pleased to publish it. 
I have frequently watched the little 
brown bush sparrow or chipping bird, 
—which builds in a bush in the dooryard 
and lays four blue eggs with sprinkling of 
black on big end—searching over the cab¬ 
bage plants very industriously for these 
worms, and it seemed surprising how sharp 
their eyes became by practise, as they 
would invariably discover the worm and 
capture it before I could see it, away she 
would fly to her nest with the worm, an L 
before many minutes had elapsed back she 
would come and renew the search, keeping 
at it from early dawn to close of day. If 
there is a better remedy than this I have 
yet to discover it. The miller can easily 
be caught in a scoop-net by a boy who will 
work at it faithfully for 25 cts. per hundred. 
[2] I cannot give exact amount oi express 
charges from here to your place but I 
think it would amount to more than the 
plants are worth here. 
[3] We do not send cut potatoes by mail 
but pick medium and small sized tubers for 
mailing, I do as I, would be done by in do¬ 
ing this. You get more eyes on a pound 
in this way; probably grow more from them 
than from a pound of large tubers. But if 
seed is cheap I prefer to plant large tubers 
every time.^ X do not like more than two 
or three eyes in a hill, but prefer to have 
each eye on as large a piece as possible in 
order to give it a vigorous start. I there¬ 
fore like the plan of taking a large tuber 
and cutting all eyes out except one, but of 
course I do not think it would pay to fol¬ 
low this on a large scale. 
Codling Moth Trap—W e here give the 
method of trapping ihe oodsiug moth, used by 
Mr. Tu tie, a leading Wisconsin hortieuhurist. 
Take she Tow paus or ssucers, and place strong 
■ Hp le-vinegar in ihem, and hang among the 
branches of the trees The smell of the vinegar 
attracts the moths and they are caught and 
drowned at ihe i-ame tune. Mr. Tuttle says he 
has caught over forty codling moths in one of these 
pans in a single night. He eounts it a great 
success. 
Old tin fruit cans suspended by a wire »pd fill¬ 
ed with sweetened wa J er mixed with viuegar 
would certainly dsp se of enough moths to bs- 
eu the number of wormy apples. 
Leaf-Mould —If you take well decomposed, 
leaf s>il aud sift and examine it, you wilt find 
that it is altogether a nia-s of worm casts. 
Rough rooting plants take kindly enough to this- 
but tender a jd delicate rooting ones do not. In 
order to make it good and ready food lor all, 1 
rub it hard between my hands till it feels as 
mellow as flour. In this state, aud mixed with 
its bulk ofclean sand and a little mellow loam, 
almost any “hasty” seed will gr w in it; But for 
palms, nyt-sa, fraxinellas, paeonias, aud other 
seeds that take mouths, a year or more to germi. 
uate, I do not me it, as I have found it has a 
ten leuey to rot the seeds. Leaf-mould is a capi¬ 
tal thing for mixing loamy soil in sprin?, for 
potting or boxlng-off seedlings, rooted cuttings, 
or winter-stored roots or other plants. w. F, 
Cambrige , Jflasa, 
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those who are entitled to it will receive it 
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