Some weeks ago I saw, in the Farmer, a recommendation of the use of ground or calcined plaster as a remedy for striped bugs. My own experience allows me to tell you how I have improved on that remedy. Having occasion to use Paris green and calcined plaster, in proportion of one of the former to fifteen of the latter, as a destroyer of the potato bug, I tried the stuff on squash, melon and cucumber vines; with me, the mixture dusted on from a common dredging box, has proved equally effectual against the Colorado potato beetle and the striped bug. On squashes of the tenderest variety of foliage, like the Hubbard, for instance, and on the hardier, like Cymlin and the winter Crookneck, this mixture, put on while the plant is wet or dry, does not injure them; and so of musk melons and cucumbers. The water melon, however, does not bear such treatment, and I recommend that the mixture be used with care. I give my experience in this business - limited as it is - because I know with what extreme difficulty cucumber and other vines are protected from the striped bug. - Cor. of Prairie Farmer.