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How to Destroy Insect Pests.

A Bulletin of the New Jersey Agri-
cultural College Experiment Station con-
tains an article on 'Insect Pests aud the
Best Means of Destroying Them" by
George D. Hulst. We make the follow
ing extracts:
Cabbage Butterfly: This and the cab
bage plusia are the most common and
destructive of insects infesting the leaves
of the cabbage. They may be destroyed
by dusting with pyrethrum (Persian)
powder, or by sprinkling the plants with
water heated to between 130 and 100
degrees Fahr. Paris green and London
purple may be used before the cabbages
begin to head.
Cabbage Root Worm: This, the larva
of fly, attacks the roots of cabbages
and caulifowers, doing very great deal
of damage. The most satisfactory rem
edy seems to be that recommended by
Prof A. J. Cook, of Michigan, namely,
bisulphide of carbon. A small hole is
made in the earth near the main root Of
the plant, one-hal teaspoonful of the
liquid poured in, aud the hole filed in
at once with earth, which is pressed
down with the foot.
Canker Worms: These caterpillars in
testing apple trees pupate in the ground,
leaving the trees iu early summer and
appearing as moths late in the fall or
early in the next spring. The females
are wingless. The remedies are, turn
ing hogs in the orchard during the sum-
mer and fall, so the pupp may be de-
stroyed; placing bands or troughs
smeared with printers ink or coal tar, so
the wingless females cannot ascend the
trees to lay their eggs; spraying the trees
with Paris green or London purple, to
kill the caterpillars.
Cherry Slug: This and other slug
caterpillars can be destroyed by busting
with lime, dusting the leaves with white
hellebore, or spraying them with Paris
green or London purple, or with fresh
pyrethrum water.
Cooling Moth: The following rem
edies are recommended for this insect,
whose larva lives commonly in apples
and ounces. Pasture the orchard. so
that all fallen fruit. may be devoured.
Tie pieces of old cloth or wisps of hay
and Straw about the limbs of the trees
in early summer The caterpillars de-
scending the tree will make their cocoons
in these, and the whole may be removed
and burned later in the season. Prof.
Cook, of Michigan, has found that spray
ing the fruit with London purple at the
time of the appearance of the moth will
save large portion of the fruit.
Currant and Gooseberry Worms Pow
dered white hellebore busted on the
leaves will destroy this insect.
Currant Stem Borer: The only remedy
known to me is to cut oil the infected
stems and burn them.
Cut Worms: These caterpillars, which
cut of and thus destroy tender plants,
especially cabbage, caulifloHer and late
corn, embrace many species of moths be-
longing to the N,ctuile or Owlet Moths.
DR.. Riley especially recommends two
methods of destruction: 1st. Making 6
hole several inches deep on each side Of
the plant with a round stick. The
caterpillar will more than likely fall into
one of the holes in its wanderings, and
cannot extricate itself. I'd. And this is
by far the better way-kill off the cut
worms before the crop is planted. This
is done as follows: Poison, with Paris
green or London purple, lot of cabba@
or other succulent leaves, and after
ground is ready, scatter these for two
three nights about the field. The cut
worms, eating them, will be very gene
rally destroyed.
Peach Tree Borer: This is generally
destroyed by the weA-known process OF
cutting out or "worming." Professor
J. A. Lintner, of New York, tells of a
preventive which seems to have given
good satisfaction, namely, mixture of
carbolic acid and whale-oi soap. This
isr>nopped on the trunks of the trees,
near the ground, with a whitewash
brush, before and during the time of the
appearance of the moth. These remedies
apply as well to the kindred borcrs OF
the pear, apple and ounce trees.
Plant Lice: The most effectual
remedies against these seem to be dust
ing with pyrethrum Persian) powder,
and spraying with solution of whale
oil soap. The smoke of burning, or
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