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BUI^LETIN 78. 



Mr. P. J. Diepold of Madison, Wis-, has made several of the 

 cutters; he charges $2.50 each, and makes a very satisfactory- 

 tool. The best grade of paper to use is what is termed " one ply 

 tarred felt." It can be bought in retail lots for from 2 to 4 cents 

 per pound. The following letter published by Mr. Goflf gives reli- 

 able data as to the cost of the cards, the labor of appljdng them 

 on a large scale, and other useful hints : 



Green Bay, Wis., April 12, 1894. 

 Our young man cuts from 500 to 600 of the cabbage pads per hour or 5,000 

 to 6,000 per day of ten hours. One person will put on from 300 to 500 per 



hour according to the rapidity 

 ot the workman. The paper 

 that we use costs from i^ to 

 1 14. cents per pound at whole- 

 sale, or from 2j^ to 3 cents at 

 retail, and one pound makes 

 about 2CO pads. In giving in- 

 structions to anyone in regard 

 to using the pads, always cau- 

 tion them about getting the 

 pads too low down, for if they 

 are covered with enough earth 

 so that the earth above the 

 card remains moist, the mag- 

 gots will work over the pads. 

 We had one bed of cabbage two 

 years ago that illustrated this 

 point in the most perfect man- 

 ner. The bed extended from 

 ground that was quite firm to 

 some that was very soft, and in 

 the soft part the boys set the 

 plants too low and the earth 

 gathered in over the pads and 

 the maggots got their work in 

 according to the amount of earth 

 there was over the pads. On 

 this same bed I made an experiment without and with the pads and the re- 

 sult proved, asit had before, that beyond all question the pads do all that we 

 have claimed for them. GEO. B. SMITH. 



Mr. Smith has described for us his arrangement for cutting the 

 cards. He says : " We put the roll of paper on a roller made 

 by standing two pieces of plank up edgewise to the wall, fastening 



Fig. 15. — An arrane;eine7it for facilita- 

 ting the cutting of the cards. 



