Question - The White Grub? What are its habits? What are the most effectual means for its destruction?

L. B. Langworthy. - The white grub is the larva of the May-bug. It is four years in completing its growth - is most destructive in its third year. He thinks it impossible to destroy it, except to dig it up and kill it. It is particularly destructive to strawberries.

Geo. Ellwanger had always found white grubs to be plenty in grounds mauured by night soil - would never use it until composted three or four years.

£. W. Herendeen had tried clear salt to kill the grubs, without success.

The White Grub #1

ED. Western Horticulturist: - Seeing an inquiry in the 12th No. of the Horticulturist, in regard to White Grubs, reminded me of a bit of experience in my own observations of the pests, which I now give for the benefit of the inquirer or others.

Some three years ago, I planted a row of Early Rose potatoes, and wishing to make the most of them, about the time the sprouts were coming through the ground, I made a trench five or six inches deep close along the row, and put in it a liberal quantity - say two or three inches - of fresh hen manure, and covered it with soil. Sometime during the summer, while hoeing the potatoes, I happened to dig into the manure, and to my surprise found some twenty large, plump, white specimens of the "rascal" luxuriating in the trench of manure, while the potatoes, at digging, were unharmed.

Further: the fact is patent to all farmers here, that the white grub will not injure growing corn, if the ground has a good coat of fresh stable manure plowed under before planting. They seem to prefer to work in the manure, and perhaps live on it. Cannot this fact be turned to good account by furnishing the " rascals' such material underground among strawberry or other plants?

Carthage, Ind. Thomas T. Newby.