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Show REMEDY FOR CABBAGE WORMS.-The editor of the Danville Leader recommends the following remedy for the cabbage worm after a personal trial: Pulverize to an impalpable powder London purple, mix four ounces with twenty-five or thirty pounds of finely-sifted coal ashes-but any fine, dry dust will do-and to more effectually mix, pass it all through a meal sieve. Now we have the means to protect ourselves. We take a still day when the plants are very dry, carry a dish full of the material in one hand, and with the other hand dash a pinch of the mixture into the heart of the plant. So fine and subtle is the poison-for it is a poison-that it fogs about, and searches the most intricate convolutions of the leaves, settles upon the soft bodies of the worms, and they give up the ghost. Two or three applications do the work. London purple is the residuum from the chemical works manufacturing analine dyes, and contains arsenous acid. At first thought the idea of using the material is repulsive; but we have used it with safety, and so have our neighbors. The first heavy rain washed it entirely away, and the outside leaves shell off anyway. |