Half hours with insects . Imported Cabbage Butterfly, female. Caterpillar and alone, exceed half a million of dollars ; and already the priceof cabbages has advanced. He says that Mr. Quinn, theowner of a large plantation, has found carbolic powder,superphosphate and lime together, to destroy them. Thecarbolic powder appears to be sawdust impregnated with car-bolic acid. Salt has been recommended, but Mr. Quinn didnot find dry salt efficacious, though lime has been reportedby others as useful. 22 PACKAKD] INSECTS OP THE GARDEN. 55 Mr. C. S. Miuot, in an interesting article entitled
Half hours with insects . Imported Cabbage Butterfly, female. Caterpillar and alone, exceed half a million of dollars ; and already the priceof cabbages has advanced. He says that Mr. Quinn, theowner of a large plantation, has found carbolic powder,superphosphate and lime together, to destroy them. Thecarbolic powder appears to be sawdust impregnated with car-bolic acid. Salt has been recommended, but Mr. Quinn didnot find dry salt efficacious, though lime has been reportedby others as useful. 22 PACKAKD] INSECTS OP THE GARDEN. 55 Mr. C. S. Miuot, in an interesting article entitled Cab-bage Butterflies, in the American Entomologist, vol. 2,strongh^ recommends destroying the chrysalis, which may befound under chips, boards, stones, etc., and advises thatboards, raised two inches above the surface of the ground,be placed among the plants to attract the caterpillars whenabout to change to a chrysalis. Mr. Curtis has described and figured several parasites ofthe three species of cabbage butterflies fou
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