The smallest quantity blown into the forming heads of cabbages will kill
the destructive cabbage worm in from twelve to eighteen hours. The lightest
puffs blown in their tents will kill the tent caterpillar in about twelve hours.
At first they do not mind it in the least; then they begin to worry, and in
five minutes are in a state of agony or at least of great excitement. In ten
minutes they begin to drop to the ground, where in a few hours they will be
found dead and dying.
The price of fresh, pure pyrethrum powder is very high, but used through
bellows, a small quantity may be made to do such effective service that the
saving of time renders its use economical. Speed the day that we may grow
our own plants and manufacture our own Dalmatian insecticide!


* PROTECTION FROM INSECT ATTACK.
J. A. Lintner, before the Western New York Horticultural Society, read an
elaborate article on the above topic.
He stated that economic writers upon entomology make a distinction between
preventive and remedial measures.
While the preventives that have been proposed are comparatively few, the


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remedies could be enumerated by hundreds. Merely to specify a few, we have
the popular applications of Paris green,{London purple, hellebore, and
pyrethrum, in powder or in liquid form; carbolic acid, kerosene and other oils;
soft soap and other alkaline washes, lime, ashes, soot, dust, salt, hot water,
hand picking, tree-jarring, burning infested twigs, attracting to fires, to lights,
or to adhesive sweets—all tending to the destruction of insect life in one or
more of its several stages.
