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throw out the rough leaves, ^Yhich the fly will not attack so 

 freely."— (Thos. Hopkins, Ulceby.) 



" In moist weather the Ilea is comparatively harmless ;. it is 

 when dry parching weather sets in, just as the Turnips break 

 ground, that the attack is most to be dreaded. In such cases 

 I am of opinion that a frequent use of the icatcr-cart is the 

 best thing to do." — (Watson Hornsby, Holme Cultram, Cum- 

 berland.) 



With regard to precise effect of watering on the germinating 

 plant, I can state, from such experiment as I have been able 

 to make, that at the end of a fortnight from their appearance 

 above ground, the plants from a patch of Turnips which had 

 been watered (in a season of drought) on either two or three 

 evenings, u-cighcd one quarter or rather more than the plants 

 from precisely the same measure of ground close by, and in 

 exactly the same circumstances, excepting that they had not 

 been watered. — (Ed.) 



"As to the effect of sowing in dry seasons with the water- 

 drill, I have always found the water-drill most successful in 

 moist seasons. Wlicn the land is very drij, the amount of water 

 }>ut in by a water-drill is not sufficient to he of any service to the 

 Turnip-2)lant, and sometimes it is sufficient to cause the seed to 

 germinate, and then, if rain docs not come, it dries up or malts 

 in the land.* I have always, in a general way, found the 

 water-drill starts the Turnips much quicker than the dry-drill, 

 and they generally are fit to single out a week earlier than if 

 sown by dry-drill."— (Thos. H. Baker, Mere, Wihs.) 



The following notes refer more particularly to desirableness 

 of sowing before the surface of the soil has dried after 

 cultivation. 



" In the neighbourhood of Ardkinglas, Inverar}^ only one 

 field is noted to have escaped ravage of Turnij) Fly for miles 

 round. This one field was a stubble, and in a damp locality 

 lying along the banks of the Kiver Fyne, with high-lying 

 lields opposite. It was not ploughed till shortly before sowing, 

 a fine and moderately damp mould was turned up, the seed was 

 immediately sown, and a fine braird and crop followed. 

 Several instances of re-sowing proved abortive, but wherever 

 the drills were well harrowed down and set up by the common 

 single-plough fewer failures occurred." — (Thos. Wilkie, Cairn- 

 dow, Argyllshire.) 



" I think that surface moisture is a good preventive, and that 

 the seed ought to be sown as soon after the ground is prepared 

 for its reception as can be, and the land not allowed to get 

 dried." — (Thos. Brunton, Thame Park, Oxfordshire.) 



* This point, appears of so much importance that I have drawn attention to 

 it by italics. — Ed. 



