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applied. Care was taken to perform the first thinning as soon 

 as the plants could be handled, leaving them an inch or two 

 apart. When the thinning was complete a sprinkling of guano 

 was given, and a thorough watering if the weather was dry. 

 Particular attention was paid to keeping the Carrots growing 

 without any check till some time after they are finally thinned, 

 when, if all has gone well previously, they are considered 

 safe. Still, however, it is thought well to look them over 

 occasionally, and if any are found drooping, to have them 

 pulled up and burned. This method of cultivation has been 

 found after many years' experience to answer well. — (A. F.) 



Near Berridale, N. B., the method adopted was to turn up 

 the ground in winter as roughly as possible, and give a good 

 dressing of salt. In spring, before sowing, it was forked over, 

 and a dressing given of peat and ashes. When the Carrots 

 are thinned, a mixture of soot and water was poured over 

 them ; and paraffin also used, in the proportion of an English 

 pint of paraffin to two gallons of water, but care is recom- 

 mended in the use of it in dry weather, lest it should burn 

 the plants. — (J. S.) 



Frequent waterings of salt water are mentioned as of service 

 to an attacked crop.— (T. M'D.) 



At Dalkeith, N. B., good Carrots, tolerably free from injury 

 by the fly, were grown on ground which had been previously 

 heavily salted for Asparagus. This was upon soil which had 

 been used for a kitchen-garden for forty years, and upon 

 which endeavours had failed to get a good crop in any other 

 way.— (M. D.) 



At Ballinacourte, Tipperary, the most severe portion of an 

 attack of the Carrot Fly occurred in the centre of a field 

 which had not received the same treatment as the part round 

 it, and the plant was consequently more feeble. In this case 

 bad manure and the absence of salt were considered to be the 

 cause of the attack. It is advised that good manure — rich 

 and well rotted — should be applied at the autumn ploughing, 

 and artificial manure, with salt, applied in the drill at sowing- 

 time.— (D. S. S). 



In the following notes mention is made of the use of 

 paraffin in regular course of cuHivation, or as a dressing in case 

 of attack, proving a very good means of prevention : — 



The crops have usually proved good at Oxenford Castle, 

 N. B., on a bed of tree-leaves covered with soil composed of 

 emptyings of flower-pots, boxes, &c., and consequently of a 

 light, friable nature. In 1879, however, the fly proved 

 destructive, and in 1880, in order to experiment, the beds 

 were beaten firm after the seed was sown, and lightly covered 

 with soil, as above mentioned. A good dressing was then 



