There are plenty of methods of destroying the cabbage caterpillar, but most of them cost more than the cabbages are worth. A friend of ours employed a boy last year to kill them with a penknife, and thought it as cheap and effectual as anything he had tried. Most other remedies take time in preparation before beginning work. It is, however, well to place on record all that has been done. At the New Jersey experimental station it has been found that the fumes of benzine, as well as the liquid, caused almost instant death, but when applied to the cabbages, small, whitish excrescences appeared on the leaves. Hot water applied to the cabbage destroyed a portion of the worms, causing also the leaves to turn yellow. One ounce of saltpetre and two pounds of common salt dissolved in three gallons of water formed an application which was partly efficient. The most satisfactory remedy tested, however, consisted of a mixture of half a pound each of hard soap and kerosene oil in three gallons of water. This was applied August 26, and examination the following day showed many, if not all of the worms destroyed. The growing cabbage presents such a mass of leaves in which the caterpillars may be concealed that it is hardly possible to reach all the worms at one application.

It is of importance, therefore, to repeat the use of any remedy at frequent intervals.