We do not know any easy way with wire worms.  Nitrate of soda is believed to kill or repel them, but you have to be careful with it, for too much will either over-stimulate or kill the kill; about 200 pounds per acre, well distributed, is the usual prescription for the good of the plants.  Wire worms can probably be killed with carbon bisulphide, using a tablespoonful poured into holes about a foot deep, three or four feet apart.  The vapor would permeate the soil and kill all ground insects, but the acre-cost of such treatment must be measured in its relation to the value of the crop.  The most promising policy with wire worms is rotation of crops, starving them out with a grain or grass crop and not growing such crops as you mention continually on the same land.

Bean Weevil.

How can I keep certain insects from getting into my dry beans?  I have finished picking the crop.  Every year a little, short, stubby beetle gets in them before spring and makes them unfit for use.

You have to do with the bean weevil.  The eggs are inserted by the insect while the beans are still green in the pods; subsequently the eggs hatch and the worm excavates the interior of the ripened beans.  The beans can be protected after ripening by heating carefully to 130° Fahrenheit, which will destroy the egg, or the larva if already hatched.  Of course, this heating must be done cautiously and with the aid of a good thermometer for fear of destroying the germinating power.  The work of the insect can also be stopped by putting the beans in a barrel or other close receptacle, with a saucer containing about an ounce of carbon bi-sulfid to vaporize.  Be careful not to approach the vapor with a light.  After treatment for one-half hour, the cover can be removed and the vapor will entirely dissipate.  This is a safer treatment than the heating.  Similar methods of control can be used on other pea and bean weevils.

Slugs in Garden.

Can you advise me how I can get rid of slugs in my garden?

When barriers of lime, ashes, etc., are ineffective, traps consisting of pieces of board sacking and similar materials placed about the field prove inviting to the slugs.  They collect under these and by going over the field in the early morning they may be put into a salt-water solution or otherwise destroyed.  Arsenical sprays applied with an underspray nozzle to the lower surface of the leaves will help control the slugs.  Poison bran mash consisting of 16 pounds of coarse bran, 2 quarts of cheap syrup, and enough warm water to make a coarse mash, is very good for cutworms and should be equally effective for slugs.  It should be placed in small heaps about the plants to be protected.  Cabbage leaves dipped in grease drippings and placed about the fields also prove attractive bait for the slugs, which may then be collected there.  If a person has a taste for poultry, the keeping of a few ducks may solve the slug problem without further bother.  Cultivation or irrigation methods that give a dry surface most of the time also discourage these pests.