POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE FOR SLUGS
Permanganate of potash is certainly excellent when used as a fairly dark solution, for frightening slugs from the depths of herbaceous plants. Worms hurry to the surface in five minutes, hut slugs, notorious slow-coaches at all hut dining, make a more dignified exit. Half a thimbleful of crystals to a -gallon and a-half of water is usually ample, as a stronger solution may unsightly brown patches on the foliage. The hedgehog is a worthy tenant of the garden. His appetite for slugs, snails, beetles, worms, and grubs is enormous. The sticky grey field slug, limax agrestis, is too cloying for his tongue, likewise such monsters as the striped black slug, but the dusky garden slug, ariou hortensis, receives no mercy. Hedgehogs _ are easily tamed, and when weeding in the evening can ho quite a help in ridding the garden of pests, one gardener having gone to the length of tethering them with a lead ■wherever he happens to he working.— ‘ Manawatu Daily Times.'
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Evening Star, Issue 21742, 9 June 1934, Page 25
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167POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE FOR SLUGS Evening Star, Issue 21742, 9 June 1934, Page 25
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