. [Report of the commissioners] [microform] : appendices C to F inclusive, containing evidence taken by the commissioners, special reports, etc. in vols. III, IV and V. Agriculture; Natural history; Agriculture; Sciences naturelles. LONDON PURPLE. London -pie is another remedy which seems to be eflFective, but I do not know that it is of quite so much value as Paris Green. DESTROYING THE EGGS. It is a good plan to resort to handpicking and destroying the eggs early in the season and keeping the practice up throughout the summer, especially if any children are about. There is consideraJile dang
. [Report of the commissioners] [microform] : appendices C to F inclusive, containing evidence taken by the commissioners, special reports, etc. in vols. III, IV and V. Agriculture; Natural history; Agriculture; Sciences naturelles. LONDON PURPLE. London -pie is another remedy which seems to be eflFective, but I do not know that it is of quite so much value as Paris Green. DESTROYING THE EGGS. It is a good plan to resort to handpicking and destroying the eggs early in the season and keeping the practice up throughout the summer, especially if any children are about. There is consideraJile danger in the use of Paris Green in market gardening, as it is liable to fall upon other vegetables. THE WAY TO USE PARIS GREEN. "Where potatoes are grown by the acre, the best way to use the Paris Green is to ap- ply it dry mixed with lime, ashes or earth, but wherever there is a danger of its being blown upon otiier vegetables, the better way is to mingle it with water and apply it with a whisk. It can be done just as rapidly in this as in any other way. The bug is now spread over all the northern part of this continent; it is as great a pest in Nova Scotia and the Maritime States as in Nebraska. Almost frantic efforts are being used to keep it out of Europe, and one or two specimens are all that have ever been known there. I do not think it will ever become very injurious in England, the climate is so moist, the insect requiring more heat and dryness tliau they have there, but it will, in all probabi- ity, become as widely spread over Central Eui'opii as it is here. f" •. ENEMIES IN THE EGG In the egg state the beetle is preyed upon by our old friends, the lace-winged flies, the lady-birds, the aoWUev-hug (Beduvius mptatoriua), Fig. 22, and, I think, some!other bugs; a number of the carnivorous ground beetles also attack it. Figs. 23, 24, ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced
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