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GENERAL INDEX. 
soda and kainite, 42; gas-lime and 
alkali waste, 44 ; gas-tar water, 45 ; 
rape-cake and meal and Indian rape 
(or mustard seed) cake, uses of, as 
preventives of Wireworm attack, 
and notes of experiment with, 46- 
48; trapping by pieces of rape- 
cake, carrot, mangold, &c., 49; 
compressing soil, 22 ; close grazing, 
also sheep-treading, before breaking 
up pastures, paring and burning, 
and consolidating land, likewise use 
of chemical manures and other 
treatment to prevent egg-laying, 
and to starve out or destroy Wire- 
worm before breaking up land, 26- 
32 ; mustard, opinions on, as a pre¬ 
ventive, 36-40; presence of, after 
certain crops, 40 ; rooks and various 
other birds beneficial in clearing 
Wireworm, 51; seaweed, as a ma¬ 
nure, to lessen Wireworm presence, 
50 
Wireworm apparently attracted by 
manure, 1883, 38; results of ex¬ 
periments with rape-cake on, 39 
Good effects of late ploughing, 1884, 
36; importance of healthy growth 
of plant, 37; effect of rolling, 37; 
results of use of Indian rape-cake, 
and probability of its use prolonging 
larval stage, 38, 39 
Importance of close feeding pastures, 
&c., before cultivation, to prevent 
attack, 1885, 30, 31; conclusive re¬ 
marks on effect of rape-cake on, 
31, 32 
Effect of paraffin on Wireworm, 1894, 
42 
Agrotis exclcimationis, 1884, 85, 89, 90; 
1893, 54-59; 1896, 143 (see also 
Agrotis segetum) 
Agrotis segetum, 1878, 23 ; 1879, 18, 40 ; 
1880, 28; 1881, 99-101; 1884, 15, 
85-91; 1885, 74-81; 1886, 84-87; 
1887, 96-101; 1893, 54-60; 1894, 
82; 1896, 143-148 
Abundant in Norfolk, 1878, 23 
Common garden pest in Cheshire, 1879, 
18 
Rooks feeding on and other surface 
caterpillars, 1881, 99 
Observations of habits of caterpillar, 
1884, 85, 86 ; infesting Celery, 15 
Observations of, and other surface 
caterpillars, 1885, 74, 81 ; hand¬ 
picking to destroy, 75, 76; remedial 
treatment and applications to de¬ 
stroy, 76 
General information, 1886, 84-87; 
remedial treatment, 86 
Attacking Swedes, &c., 1887, 97; ob¬ 
servations on attack, with method 
of prevention, 98-101; infesting 
Cabbage, 40,000 plants eaten by, 
98 
Infesting seedling Conifers, Mangolds, 
Potatoes, Turnips, &c., 1893, 54 
Infesting Gorse, 1896, 146 
Alcepliagus pallidus (see Lipoptera cervi) 
Alder (see Plant index) 
Alder Clearwing Moth (see Trochilium 
splice gif or me) 
Aldersey Grammar School, Bunbury, 
Cheshire; useful instruction on farm 
insects at; successful work by pupils 
in clearing Warble infestation, 1883, 
v; 1885, iv, 93; 1887, 112, 113; 
1888, 112, 113; 1890, 110; 1891, 
166; 1894, Appendix, lv-lvii 
Aleyrodes cheledonii (s ee Aleyrodes pro- 
letella) 
Aleyrodes brassicce, referred to, 1878, 34 
Aleyrodes pliillyrece infesting Arbutus, 
‘ &c., 1883, 54, 55 
Aleyrodesproletella, 1883, 54, 56; 1885, 
10 , 11 
General remarks on, and treatment 
for, 1883, 54; to destroy by syring¬ 
ing, 55 
Infesting plants of Cabbage kind 
(Brassicce ), 1885, 10; to destroy 
by cutting away infested leaves, 11 
Alfalfa, Locusts imported in, 1897, 54 
Alkali waste, 1882, 44, 45 ; good for 
Beans, 1885, 4 ; and gas-lime, 1888, 
29-31 
Allied Breeze Fly (see Tabanus cognatus 
and Tabanidce) 
Allotria (see Aphidius avence) 
Alum, not serviceable in destroying 
caterpillars, 1890, 85 
Amblycephalus interruptus (see Euacan- 
thus interruptus) 
Ambrosia Beetles, 1897, 8 
American Blight (see Scliizoneura lani- 
gera) 
American Clover-seed Midge (see Geci- 
domyia leguminicola) 
American Ornithologists’ Union, 1885, 
69 
Ammonia, sulphate of, 1889, 10, 11, 33 
Ammoniacal liquor, 1881, 80 
Anbury, or Finger-and-Toe, not caused 
by insects, 1888, 24, 25 (see Plas- 
modiopliora brassicce) 
Angoumois Moth (see Sitotroga ( Gele- 
cilia) cerealella) 
Anguillula radicicola (see Heterodera 
radicicola) 
Anguillulidce , 1885, 81-84; 1889, 1-12 
(see also Heterodera spp. and Ty- 
lenchus clevastatrix) 
Animal attacks, list of books referred to 
on, 1895, 153 
Anisoplia hordeola (see Pliyllopertha 
hordeola) 
Anisopteryx cescularia, 1889, 56, 81 
A fruit pest at Westerham, 1890, 77 
Anobium paniceum, 1898, 77, 105-116 
Infesting Onion seed, 1898, 105, 108; 
various substances on which it 
