Attenuated Coal Tar, Remedy For Cut Worm

Out Worm. - An inventor m New York Las discovered a uiethod of making coa] tar into a powder wkich can be sown as e&sily as piaster. It is a fact that insects find coal tar a very uncorufortable article, and it is generally attributed to its strong odor tho power of expelling tliora. The powder is black, liko gunpowder, is rot sticky, aud may be put on hills of corn, or vegetables as easily as piaster; it is put up in bags of one hundred pounds at three dollars per bag. A sample sent us of about half a thinibleful in a letter possesaes odor enough to drive off a legión of curculios or uut worius, is as ïnuch as we would put on a hill of cucumber or melon vinos, and we think it well worthy of a trial. We wish very ïnuch we had known of it sooner, for this has beeu one of the worst seasons for the grub or cut worm. We hardly know of a farmer that is not complaining of the ravages that this little ingeot bas been doing, and some of them have actually plowed their sjround all over aud planted again. In the gardens the early cabbages have all suffered more or less in the üauie manner. This substance ïnay prove a preventiva of the damage dono by this insect. - Michigan Farmer June 19.