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toms of not much more value, comparatively. I don't think a 

 healthy crop of carrots or ruta-bagas can be raised for winter, 

 sown early in the season. 



Mr. Hubbard. I see the gentleman is master of his subject, 

 and I wish to ask if he is ever troubled with green lice upon 

 turnips ? 



Mr. Ware. Cabbages and turnips are very liable to become 

 lousy. We had acres in our neighborhood a year ago, in 

 August, that became so offensive from disease, (owing primarily 

 to the drought — but the plants were affected with lice all 

 through the fields,) that the wind coming from them was really 

 troublesome and annoying. But in ordinary seasons the turnip 

 crop would not be liable to that trouble ; neither would cabbages, 

 except in a very dry time. 



Mr. Hubbard. I found the same difficulty with my own 

 cabbages and turnips. Almost every cabbage, at a certain 

 season of the year, had these green lice upon it ; and the same 

 thing happened to my turnips. As soon as it became wet, the 

 lice disappeared. The cabbage heads formed, but the turnip 

 tops died. Have you any remedy for that ? 



Mr. Ware. I suppose weak brine would be a remedy, but it 

 is so difficult of application that I should consider it impracti- 

 cable. These lice are more commonly under the leaf than any- 

 where, so that it would be almost impossible to apply this 

 remedy ; and I don't know of any other that would be practi- 

 cable. If we have unfavorable weather, we are liable to disap- 

 pointment in our crops. We depend upon the season very 

 much, and we grope our way in darkness : but still, with a 

 little light. We usually have fair returns, but sometimes meet 

 with disappointments, from unfavorable seasons, that we cannot 

 control, and sometimes lose our crops from such causes. Often- 

 times we meet with difficulties which we cannot combat. We 

 know of no practical application that is a remedy, and we pocket 

 the loss in such cases. I have seen no trouble of that kind this 

 year, so that it is very evident that the dry weather was the 

 cause of it. 



Mr. Slade. Is it not economy to raise carrots with onions ? 



Mr. Ware. I think not. I know that is practised in Bristol 

 County, and in Rhode Island, in many cases. They cultivato 

 onions very differently from what we do. They think their way 



