SIZE OF PLANTS TO TRANSPLANT.
 Plants are large enough, if the season is good, to take from bed when
they have four well developed leaves, even though they may spread
on the ground. The best size are those from four to six inches high.
Still plants that are from eight to twelve inches have been used suc-
cessfully by making the hole deep enough, so that from four to six
inches of the plant is left above ground.
 In transplanting, and if done by hand, even if the season is a good
one, it will pay to water each plant a little, so as to settle the earth to it.
 If the season is good they can be dropped and planted like cabbage
plants, and they will live and grow off as readily.
 ENEMIES.
 The seed bed has its enemies. They are not an uncommon cause
why there is a failure of plants. Seed, often good, are ruined by them
while sprouting, and plants after they have come up. Among the most
destructive is the flea beetle. This little pest will not be noticed un-
lessit is hunted. About the size and color of a flea they assail the seed
sometimes as soon as it sprouts. Again, the bed is green with in-
numerable plants one morning, when in a few days but few, if any,
survive.
 Another insect, popularly known as a leaf hopper, and belonging to
the locust family, was observed on the leaf by Prof. Rolfs, the past sea-
son. Its color being very much like the leaf, it is not likely to be
noticed. It injures by sucking juice through epidermis of the plant.
If they should come in large numbers they would do great damage.
 The cut worm is also destructive to plants in seed bed.
 There are other insects also, we are led to believe, which destroy
plants, and which thus far we have not identified.
 Experience, this season, teaches us that our greatest enemy, the bud
worm, attacks the plant in the seed bed. It does not, however, do so
until the plant has developed several leaves. But it is certain that it
does sometimes its most destructive work before the plant is trans-
planted in the field.
 REMEDIES FOR ENEMIES.
 Every person who grows tobacco should provide himself before
planting with paris green to protect himself against the ravages of
these pests. I give afew formulas which have been found to be effective
in destroying them.
 FOR FLEA BEETLE.
 Take 20 gallons of water and mix it in 2 lbs. of lime. Allow the lime
to settle, then draw off the water and add 1 oz. of paris green, mixing
well. Spray the bed with this after planting the seed, stirring well
before using, and the plants as they are coming up, and until they are
an inch or two high.
 1 oz. of paris green to 20 gallons of weak soapsuds may serve as a
substitute, but is not as good.
 CUT WORMS.
 If the plants are attacked by cut worms, take 1 oz. of paris green and
mix well with 4 lbs. of common flour or fine corn meal. A common
tin box, perforated with a nail, will serve as a duster. With this dust
he plants and the ground between.
 Wherever stable or cow manure is used, or muck, or if the ground is
rich, you may expect the cut worm, especially if the stable or cov