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web-worm comes. This is at first a small, flesh-colored, hairy caterpillar, swarming in great numbers under acommon web. ‘They then eat only the tender parts of the leaves, leaving a dead network of veins. In Sep- tember, when full grown, they disperse abroad, and then they devour the eitire

, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”—EvnRiripEs,

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1884. _

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Our Destructive Insects.

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& Sows, CHARLOTTET WN, P. KB. Istanp)

Vommission Merchant,

263 BARRINGTON STREET,

WHEATLEY

ATTORHEYS-AT-LAW. MORE ROOM.

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S my Store has been greatly enlarged, my importations have been greatly increased, thus enabling me to show a very much better assortment of Goods thao usual,

Kvery Department is well filled with Choice NEW GOODS, imported direct from the English Markets, And, as | am bound to sustaia my past ati » weed ’ y 1 : : os reputation for selling Cheap Goods, those who patronize me will find my

Prices Low.

insiduous or more difficult to combat than than the insect pests which yearly, to a yreater or less extent, rob him of the fruit of his toil. In the golden harvest field, in the green luxuriant root crops, in the laden orchard boughs, or in the richly ‘enltivated and mach prized plot which-he has enclosed as a garden, the winged foe little understood in his nature, and un-

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o served, only in the ravages which he has

committed, frequently sweeps off the pro- dict of the farmer’s labor, and leaves him nothing but a wreck for his toil.

In the various States of the Union large

sums are expended by government in study- *

‘ing the mode of operation of destructive insects, and in instrncting farmers how to combat them. To a small extent this is also being done by the Canadian Govern-

structure of the leaves which they frequent. This species breeds everywhere on the forest trees, though it hes a decided prefer- ence for the tender foliage of the orchard, It is easily recognized by the web, and the dead leaves which so seon accompany it. At its first appearance stamp it out, Seize the young Hercules in its cradle.

The Cedling Moth lays its egg in the young fruit of the apple tree. As the grub grows, it cuts its way into the apple, indue- ing premature decay, and thus destroying much valuable produce. The mature insect isa small brown moth. As itis nocturnal in its habits, itis rarely seen. All fallen apples should be immediately gathered and fed, or cther means taken to destroy the worms,

But to notice one half of the destructive

ATI AS + ee. te: Quality Good.

Be” Special attention given to the sale of P. E. Island produce.

April 24, 1884,

Assortment Large. nent. But for the most part our own:

|farmers are left to find out for themse!ves

AND SEE Us, | their enemies in this line, eter most to one other. June bugs are large brown efticient means of contending with them. ‘beetles, which often fill the air of a quiet,

a 5 PR WSE | The wheat fly, er midge, is the most warm, June evening, with the droning hum e . 0 ' destractive of our insect pests. We may of their flight. Next morning, we will

+= ° . ‘say that the importation of 40,000 barrels find the satiny leaves of the lindens, and Sign of the Big Hist, 74 Queen Street. «i flour annually to our Island is neces- the quivering foliage of the poplars, and Ch’town Sept 96 18B4.—and- w lly ' sitated by the destroyer, for without it we the tender young clokes of the orchard

29,10 6 22 - | could grow our own bread. ‘trees all drilled and torn by the jaws of

3/10 46 sat } . * * | The wheat fly, cectdonya tritici, appears | these nightly wanderers. Their larve are

first Quarter, 27th day, Oa. 41.9m., a, m.

insects which prey on our vegetation, would be impossible. We will only refer

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5 41/11 27] 24 aft ‘| ea a . 9) Solicitors in Chancery | 6 | a atl 4 ost : ae non ‘the third and fourth weeks in July, , those white, fat grubs, an inch | or more 2 YOTARLINS E UBLiC, &c. iz ‘varying in its time with the season. It in lengih, with six legs near their brown 59 | OF FICES— O’Halloran’s Building, Great ' a lays its eggs in the blossoin of the plant, pends, which we find buried in rich soils. { . and the maggot, or ‘weevil,’ grows with} They remain in the soil four years, and do 0:0 ———— | 100 Cases and Bales BOW OLen and more to follow.

14) 0 35! ed | George Street, Charlottetown, | ’ J = it'much damage by devouring the roots of 30: eae

| Ga mene team, plants. Crows are very fond of them, and 46) W. W. Sutzivan, Q. C. | Cuestsr B. MACNBILI when John struts over the fresh-plowed 7] jopT. a app pe J.-B. Macdonald has Opened

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\the develpment of the grain, _cowpleiely destroys.

| Experience has shown that the ravages of the weevil can be avoided by sowing on 2 good, dry land, on the first of May or a Great earlier. The grain then passes the blossom ‘before the midge appears. If it cannot be /sown at this time, it is necessary to leave it |a month later, so that it will not bloom till

AN IMMENSE VARIETY OF | the time of the fly is past.

LADIES & GENTLEMEN'® WEAR ae ee oy Se ee en LADIES DRESS MATERIAL in all the newest fabrics, |Jittle insect, with a tiny, sef*, orange- VELVETEENS & SILK VELVETS ‘colored body, and gauzy bluish wings, and oC ASHMERES & FRENCH MERINOES | canifot withstand even a slight breath of LADIES MANTLES & SHAWI | _ 'wind, so that wheat sown in an exposed vy. MAD aD,

FRINGES, GIMPS & MANTLE ORNAMENTS /situat‘on has a great advantage over that in : ae Sean ae 'a sheltered position. The sea air seems

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Formidable as the perfect bectles appear, the tiny-beaked swallows make them their prey, and the fleet winged night-hawks, which are reputed to be in pursuit of mosquitoes, find in their stout fellows a much mere substantial meal.

What valuable allies our fair songsters of the groves are to the farmer in his war- fare with insect foes! At this time of the year the robins are gathered in great flecks

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CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. R. O’DWYER, Commission aud General Merchant POR sabe OF P, Bel, PRODUOE. 289 WATER STREEI,

Si. Johns’ Newfoundland.

la connection with the above is Captain

glish, who is well known in P, E. Island, Who will take special charge of all consign- ments, and will also attend to the chartering of vessels for the carrying trade of P. E. 1.

The firm is one of the oldest and most reli- shiein Newfoundland Returns guaranteed to be prompt and satisfactory. Parties wish- ibg to procure Labradore Herring should send their orders in time

Sept. 6, 1854. —till 31st dec. '84. L. ARTHUR & CO, GEN HRAL Lummission Merchants, i2i ATLANTIC AVENUE,

(ROSS MARKET) BOSTON. MASS.

Bggs aud Produce a Specialty.

CAIRNS’ MARBLE WO..KS.

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thaiks t< the public for the liberal

2 patronage extended to him, begs leave to in- |

HATS & CAPS IN GREAT VARIETY AT LOW PRICES.

form his old customers and the public general-

_..| ly, that he has taken into partuership Mr. ‘ 05) Malcolm hicLean, and that hereafter the 7 37 | business w:ll be carried on under the title of

| CAIRNS & CO. ‘Marble & Stene Cutters,

They have on hand a fine stock of Monu- ments, Tablets and Headstones, in Italian and American Marble. They are of the latest de- signs, and at prices to suit all, C. CAIRNS. . M. McLEAN. Ch’town, June 30, 1884—pres n e pat s j wp

—N. Jd. CAMPBELL,

(Suceessor to Campbell & Rayden)

Auctioneer aud Commission Merchant,

SHIP BROKER, AND INSURANCE AGENT, COR. OF QUEEN AND WATER STS., Charicticiown, P. E. Isiand.

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Importer and Jobber of Cheice Groceries and Spices.

General Agent for P. E. Island of the British Empire Mutual Life Assurance Com- pany, of London, England ;

Special attention given to Auction Sales of Lumber, Coal, Vish, Apples aud other Fruit, Keal Estate, Household Furniture, Bankrupt and other Stocks, and all kinds of Merchan- dise,

Correspondence and Conzigrments eaticited

Returrs prompt!y ~~

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MEDICAL BOARD:

Dr. Hobkirk, Consulting Physician. Dr, Jobnson, Dr. Taylor, Dr. Beer, Dr, Dawson Dr, Warburton, Dr, MacKay.

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Matroa—Mrs, Hannah Robinson.

Applications for admission may be made to the Visiting Physician or Matron, at the Hospital, daily (Sundays excepted), between ten and eleven, a, m.,or by correspondence wiih any member of the medical Board, or the Matron. ;

The friends of patients will be admitted from two to four, p. m, every day (except Sunday).

The general visiling day for persons wish- ing to see the institution is Thursday of each week, from two to four o'clock, p, m.

D. R. MACLENNAN,

Secretary of Trnugtens.

April 24 aad @ekly

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July 28, 1884.

BROS.

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CLOIHING DEPARTMENT.

People say our

500 OVERCOATS, 200 REEFING JACKETS, 200 MEN'S SUITS in Worsted and Tweed, 200 doz, SUITS MEN’S UNDER CLOTHING, from 75 cents a suit upwards.

20 bales of COTTON WARP, 150 chests FINE CONGOU TEA.

Juspection Solicited, aud the Lowest Possible Prices for Goods at J. B. MACDONALD'S.

Oh’town, Sept. 18, 1884,.—2aw wkly,

‘fields near the shore will often escape,

0:0—— | while those farther inland are destroyed.

After the wheit fly, the most annoying depredator is the turnip fly. This isa ‘minute black beetle, with very stout hind lege, which enable it to hop like a flea. Its | scientific name is haltiea strivlata. It ‘attacks the tender plants as soon as they ‘are above the ground, and destroys them by eating the seed leaves. The best remedy is thick seeding and the use of rich manure, which will push on the plants rapidly.

We abserved the first insects this year on July 1st, but we dare say that in favorable situations it appeared earlier.

After turnip and cabbage plants have grown toa good size, and are thinned or

set out, they are frequently dcstroyed by

the cut worms, which work in the darkness of night, like a pestilence. These cre dark green, hairless, greasy-looking caterpillars, an inch or more in length. We find them in the soil, early.in May, ready for work, and another brood is out in July.

DORSEY, GOFF &CO’S.

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Celebrated Make of Boots are taking the lead all over the

Island,

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Good Fit, Very Cheap. and wear as well as Custom Boots.

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BE SURE AND GET OUR WiAKE. DORSEY, GOFF & CO

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TEA.

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BEER & GOFFS FOR NICE TEA,

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HALF-CHESTS.

ANY QUANTELY. VWEOLBSALE & RETALL.

Cl town, July 9, 1884—2aw

§ oOFF'S FOR SPLENDID TE‘,

These destructive caterpillars are pro-

{duced by the brown moths which we find

‘hiding in the cracks and chinks about out- buildings. They have filiform antene, and, when at rest, cover the hind wings with the fore ones. They belong to the genus Agrotis. Wherever

| found lurking in their shady retreats these

Boots are Water=tight, |dvsky prowlers should be immediately des-

troyed, for they breed sorrow to the farmer.

or cauliflower, or turnip has safely parsed the stage when it may be injured by either of these destroyers, it is still by no means safe from its insect foes. How often on a bright July morning have we watched the | gay Pontia butterfly sporting its white wings | over the beds of cabbage avd fields of tur- ‘nips. Anon, it lights on the silky leaves of freshest green, and holds its bright aloe aloft, like banners in the sunshine. You | fancy it only rests momentarily that it may resume with fresh pleasure its graceful areal ‘evolutions. But alas! in that short con- | tact it sows the seeds for a brocd of vipers that will destroy every shred of greenness on that fair plant,

We are loth to tell it, but many other of the beautiful butterflies that eport their \gemmed wings on our summer fields are sad | enemies of the cultivators of the soil. The 'Antiopa butterfly, whose brown and yellow .edged wings first float their fairy beauty in ithe sunny glades of spring, is sometimes the cause of devastating the entire foliage of our noble shade willow trees. The cater- | pillars of Cynthia cardui one of our most ‘common butterflies habitually feed on thistles. For this we would not quarrel with them if they did not sometimes leave the thistles and prey on better vlants,

The caterpillars of that golden beauty of June’s sunny fields, J'apilio Turnus, feed on the leaves of apple and cherry trees.

Indeed. the insect hests seem to consider ‘a well established orchard their rightful prey. The Scale lice fasten on the limbe of apple trees, a permanent establish- ‘ment, and in June send out their hosts jof young to suck the plant’s life | blood throngh the tender bark. Then come the Aphides and settle their pregnant hosts the half-developed leaves, compietely arresting their growth. When the leaves |have attained their growth, then marches ‘ona species of tent caterpillar, Clisiocampu sylvatica. and in a solid black mass of craw]- ing mareuders, sweeps the entire foliage from the fated limbs which they assail.

In dealing with these, the farmer should scrape and wash his trees for scale lice

If our succulent-leaved plant of cabbage

on

before the leavee are out, and crush every encampment of the others at their firs: appearance.

| Bot let him net think his work is then In the latter part of July the fall

done.

of a hundred or more, and wander about from place to place, always chosing for their forage ground a bare pasture,

swarmed with worms ard grubs, which they destroy by the million. The quiet hermit-thrush, and the gold crowred

thrush, live almost entirely cn ground beetles, and the fair plumed warblers, whose swect, clear voices gladden the short-lived beauty cf our summer bowers, sweep by the myriad the blesting Paraly- dies and Caukers from the forcst clcke,

Out of the Fight.

The St. Johm Sun says :—The result of the victory gained by the friends of the Canada Temperance Act in Halton county is beginning to be apparent upon a scale even larger than anticipated. Not only has it put renewed hope and confidence into the promoters of the ect in the thirty or more counties that are to yote upon it in Ontario this fall, but it has had the effect of correspondingly depressing the opponents of the act. Most significant of all is the announcement that the Brewers, Wire and Spirit Merchants’ Protective Asscciation has decided to abandon the struggle and leave the tavern keepers in each county to fight it out for themselves, This aesociation was formed witha great flourish of trumpets, $50,000 was sub- scribed, and its object was to fight the act the province through. It fought and was sadly defeated in Halton, and the defeat seems to have entirely discomtited the asso- ciation. The temperance people are jubi- lant, and now claim that they will sweep the county. It cannot be denied that in Ontario they have good prospects of doing this.

The

—> +a - <a - Trade of Tonquin.

The French colonial under-secretary re- cently issued a report on the trade of Ton- quip, from which it appears that ihe total value of the merchandise annually imported to that disputed region amounts to 512,000 taels, while the exports reach the figure of 629,000 teels. In French money a tael is 7 francs 43 centimes. The chief imports are cottons of Engleh manufacture (1,700,- 000 francs) and articles from China, which is the source of about two-thirds of the whole. The imports of Chinese medicines amont to 306,000 fiancs, and of tobacco, tea and silks from China, to 355,000, 194,- 000 and 30,000 francs, respectively. The report also deals with the question of colonization and = gives information intending emigrants to Tonquin. A free passage (except 80 francs for board) is given to any one that cheoses to accept it. Only skilled tradesmen, however, are re- commended to avail themselves of this generous offer. The government is about to take steps to encourage native manufac- tures.

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—_— > The Princess and the €chool Girl.

The Empress of Austria was walking incognita from Irchl, when she met two little girls returning from schoo), After some conversation and the distribution of some candy, she bade them good night. ‘*Good-night, Mme. | linperatrice,” replied the eldest child. ‘‘What, you know me! Why didn’t you say so before ?’ asked the Empress. ‘‘Because, madame,’ was the reply, ‘‘i uave been taught that in this world one should never know too much.” It is reported that the sovereign lady was so impressed by the answer that the clever school-girl will have reason to remember the interview.