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very soon after the crop is sown, turning the infested plants under and 
thoroughly covering them. Simple cultivation, whereby the plants 
are only killed, would probably only destroy a portion of the insects, 
the full-grown larve very likely going through the remainder of their 
transformations. 
The application of fertilizers is, I believe, here in this State confined 
to the poorer soils, and there more for its general effect on the crops 
than as against the effects of insects. The idea in late sowing is to 
retard the plants so that they do not appear until after the greater part 
of the fall brood of flies have appeared and died, then to overcome 
the effect of this delay by aiding the plants to make the greatest possi- 
ble growth before winter closes in, which will the better enable them to 
withstand its rigors. In this direction, it would seem that the applica- 
tion of proper commercial fertilizers would pay by the effect upon the 
growing plants, even though the land itself was not in actual want of 
such treatment. The application to a field which has previously been 
seriously damaged, with a view of encouraging the throwing out of 
fresh tillers, is for practically the same purpose; and if thereis a tend- 
ency to throw out the later shoots freely, if not too late in the season, 
many may be enabled to secure sufficient vigor to sustain them until 
spring. Whether it would be more profitable to plow and resow than 
to try to secure acrop from the infested field by the aid of fertilizers 
is, of course, a question which each farmer must decide for himself in 
accordance with the time of year and extent of injury already done. 
These measures are all of them practical and entail little if any 
unusual expense. In fact, good farming presupposes that the most of 
them will be carried out as among the essential elements of the business. 
Where clover is to follow wheat it of course precludes the burning of 
stubble or the destruction of volunteer plants, but it necessitates the 
rotation of crop, and decoys can be sown and the seeding delayed. Te 
is hardly possible for a farmer to become so situated that he can not 
carry out some of these measures, and if this were done generally, and 
every year, the Hessian fly would, in all probability, become of so little 
importance that it would cease to enter seriously into the problem of 
successful wheat growing. 
