oung cabbage, and other similar
plants. The destruction of them has been suggested to be effected by the
use of tar-water, sprinkled over the ground; and also by having recourse
to lime, in the preparation of the land for such crops. They conceal
themselves in the holes and crevices, only making their appearance early
in mornings and late in the evenings. The white slug or snail is
likewise very destructive to young turnip crops, by rising out of the
holes of the soils, on wet and dewy mornings and evenings. Rolling the
ground with a heavy implement, before the sun rises, has been advised as
a means of destroying them in these cases. Slugs of this sort are
likewise very destructive, in some districts, to the roots of corn
crops, during the day-time, in the early spring months, while they lie
concealed in the ground, by eating and devouring them; and by coming out
in the evenings, and during the night-time, to commit ravages on the
blades, and other parts above the ground. Numbers of them are sometimes
met with upon the same plant, and they may easily be extirpated and
removed from the land by the above practice, while they are at work,
especially in moon-light seasons, and any further injury to the crops
be guarded against. Warm moist weather is always a great encouragement
to their coming out of their hiding-places; and advantage should
constantly be taken of it for their extermination, as they suddenly
retire under ground during the time of cold. The strong lands of other
places are occasionally much infested with them in the pea, bean, and
rye crops and stubbles, as well as clover roots, when a wheat crop is
put in upon them. The slugs, in some cases, are of about half an inch in
length, having their backs of a blueish cast in the skin part, and their
under parts wholly of a white appearance. A mixture of sulphur and lime,
made so as to be conveniently applied, has been found to be highly
destructive of them in general.--The use of lime-water has lately been
advised as an excellent and cheap mode of destroying slugs in gardens,
as well as fields, in the second volume of the Transactions of the
Horticultural Society of London. It is found to be far preferable, in
this intention, to quicklime, which is liable to become too soon
saturated with moisture, and rendered ineffectual. The manner of
employing the water is after it has been newly made from stone lime, by
means of hot water poured upon it, to pour it through the f