"B.," Colora, Md., writes: " My attention has been called this season to a grub of very small proportions infesting the young cabbage plants, or ground where the seed have been planted, and destroying them when two inches high, more or less, by eating the roots. The plants are growing all right until they have developed four to six leaves, when the mischief begins and the majority of the plants drop over as when a plant "damps off; " but when pulled up the roots are completely girdled or entirely eaten off, but the worm that does the mischief is hard to find. The result here is that late cabbage plants are scarce. The flea beetle has been charged with this wholesale destruction but we can get ahead of it with a little Paris green. It is after the danger from the black skippers is about over that the other enemy commences. It did not trouble early cabbage but has done its work during the past six weeks. Is there a remedy? "

[We have no knowledge, from the description, of what this root insect can be. The matter is worthy of further investigation. - Ed. G. M.]