The Portland daily press., 1869-06-07
How to XIII Bug. up.'s and i'l insects. :.

su The season is close at hand when squash,
melon. and cucumber vines, and also currant
bushes and other things will be troubled and
often destroyed by these pests Of the garden
and the fields. Now what can be done to save
the plants from the ravages Of these little
pestsP A great many remedies have been
mentioned, but we confess our experience has
taught us that they do not answer the pur-
pose for which they are designed. One year
we raised some excellent onions by making
frame, covering it with millinet, and placing
it over tbe bed as soon as the seed was
sown. The .maggots that destroy the
onions come from light brown fly about
twothirds as large as the common house
fly. Soon as the onions come up these
little rascals may be seen deposi iting their eggs
on the plant close to the ground, and if The
bedi covered with millinet, they may be seen
on the covering striving to get through the
meshes, but they are toe. big for such pas
sage, and the onions escape the ravages of the
maggots. 1t won't do to remove the cover
ing until the onions are pretty well grown;
for these flies make quite long season of it.
The frame must be quite a foot high so that
the plants may have room enough. Such
contrivance is sure remedy against these
maoeots and we know of NJ otber sooosse,,,
remedy from actual experience, and we have
tried man,1vno paa,i,,as,,ws t,,aso es,Ci
their dav - and w;ll nt z, ,,,,a ,,a,la IN,
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cucnmbers ,bon; ac;d : ,ac,,sa,ss
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for the cnrrant worn, ants and o.ber
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nnt her nnder deav ro,,nd .nd ,ror t,,s rats IA
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tn birds and sr;o, t,,s,,, 80.
asas and trees ato,,t ~ ,vb az thoy
would build tpe.s.-- rea tle;r vonng and
Kill oceans OF bugs, worms anu stsa If
BIRDS see cats about their instincts teach them
to beware. They know cats can climb trees
as weil as we know it, and therefore they seek
places where cats do not abound. Birds are
tlmid and cautious of hawks and cats, but
they are not 50 much afraid of us. Our birds
might be increased greatly If we, would only
lend them little assistance and show our
friendship for them. 81 esA siaW ssf
And now what about crows? We confess
we have no great affection for these fellows,
and yet we believe they do the farmers great
deal OF good in the destruction Of worms and
other pests of vegetation. And the question
mere arises whether they do more good in de-
vourmg creeping things than they work mis-
cnleI N pulling up young corna Let 1t be
porne N mlnd tnat the season Is comparative
y sno,l wherein 'ney are mischievous, and
Iui'e Ions wherein tney are Denenciai. An
tnis must pe taken into the account while
be done to keep them from doing mischief
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