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;uk1 tlie baiting again with nibbled grubs? At any rateit will sometimes so happen to cvery fisherman to gettlie tasto and smell of cooked wasp grubs with his meal,and I have nevcr noticed that it in any way spoilt hisappetite. Attracted by the said taste and smell, I havemyself spread the baked grubs upon my bread, andfound their excellent flavour quite sufficienf to accountfor the fondness of the trout for this particular bait.""The saccharine fluid with which wasps feed their infantgrubs is cntirely composed of vegetable juices drawnIVoni l'ipe fruits and flowers. Let us then welcomeaniong our new dishes wasp grubs baked in the comb.The number of wasps' nests taken and destroyed in aprolific season is something extraordinary! 1 haveknown as many as sixtcen or twenty nests to be takenby a gardener within a very short radius round liishouse. What a waste of good wholesome food isperpetrated, thercforc, wlien cake after cake laden withfat grubs is stamped under foot or thrown away!"Our author gives as a "nionu" the following suggestivelist of eurious courses :—

SlUg Soup.Boiled ('od, with Snail Sauce.

Wasp Grubs fried in the Comb.

Moths Sautes in Butter.Braiaed Jiecf, with Caterpillars.

New Carrots, with Wire-Worin Sauce.

Gooseberry Cream, with Sawflies.

1 »evilled Chafei Grubs.

Stag-Beetle Larva' on Toast.

Dr. Salmon taught tbat powdered wasps are to be

Hsed in all cases where sows' or hogs' lice are advised,

and with the same succcss. Gilbert White teils of an

idiot boy who preyed upon wasps, honev bces, and

humble bces wherever lie found them ; he had no