Show how to hill the nose boa the editor of the rural new yorker announces eliat he has just discovered a eure way of killing the rose bug or rose chafer without injury to foliage the bug has increased rapidly in the last few years and has devastated thousands of vineyards the editor says experiments made during the present week prove that this insect cannot survive a temperature of over begs fahrenheit the next step was to ascertain if this method of destruction could be put to an easy practicable use water was heated to begs and poured into a pail A small hand force pump with eight feet of hose and a half inch iron tube of five feet thirteen feet in all terminating with a cyclone nozzle was then used to force the water upon the rose chafers of the magnolia flowers in one of which there were not less than of them the first spray upon the beetles was shown bythe by the thermometer to be begs the rose bugs receiving the direct spray were dead in about one minute the others recovered the temperature of the water was then raised so that the mercury rose to begs when the thermometer was placed within two inches of the nozzle this was sprayed into 1 partly open magnolia flower containing fifty or more beetles all were almost instantly killed neither foliage nor flowers were injured |