The following valuable remedies for insects are furnished by Charles R. Dodge, Assistant Entomologist of Department of Agriculture, and also the Entomological Editor of The Rural Carolinian, They are recommended as simple and reliable:

Pear Slugs

This insect, which sometimes plays such sad havoc with the foliage of plum and cherry trees, may be destroyed by frequent applications of a mixture of lime, soot and soap-suds, by means of a garden syringe. The mixture is made by adding to twelve gallons of cold water, one bushel of soot and half a peck of un-slacked lime, allowing it to stand one day to settle, after which is added one pound of soft soap dissolved in warm water.

The White Grub

This destructive insect, producing in this country the May beetle, (Lachnosterna), and in Europe the beetle known by the common name of "Cockchafer," is well known to many of our readers through the damage it does to pastures and grass lands. Their mode of warfare is to devour the roots of the grass, causing the sod to die out in spots, and it is said that simply applying to the affected places water, in which petroleum has been stirred, will exterminate them. It is also recommended to keep down insects on plants. The small quantity of petroleum seems to impart its disagreeable properties to a large amount of water, and applied in this manner the plants are uninjured.

Mealy-Bug

The following remedy, tried upon grape vines (under glass) in Keller-mont Gardens, Glasgow, was a complete success. The vines which were badly affected, were taken down, the loose bark scraped off, after which the back walls of the house were given two coatings of lime wash and glue, adding half a pint of turpentine to each gallon of the mixture. The rafters and glass were also given at intervals three washings of turpentine, and finally the vines themselves were given a good coating of the following mixture: Three ounces of soft soap, three ounces flower of sulphur, one pint tobacco water, two wineglassfuls of' turpentine, one gallon of hot water, and clay enough to give it the consistency of paint. The result, with a top dressing of loam and horse dung, was healthy vines, and a fair crop of grapes, clean and free from mealy-bug.

Destroying Caterpillars

An excellent remedy, which has been used on a large scale in Southern France, consists in a dilute solution of sulphide of potassium, at the rate of about one part in five hundred. The infested plants are to be sprinkled with the decoction by means of a garden syringe, and it is said that vegetation is not in the least injured by its application.