be used with the liqviicl. It should Ije fully understood that this 

 is not to be applied as a spray, but through a spout in quantity 

 snflEicient to soak around the plant to the roots — say, from four to 

 six ounces to a cabbage or cauliflower plant, and proportionately 

 along the radish, turnip or onion rows. 



Hand Method. 



This consists of taking up the plants carefully, as soon as they 

 show evidence of maggot attack, with all the earth around the 

 roots, so as to get all the insects. The roots are then washed in a 

 solution of soap or hellebore, the maggots are all removed and the 

 plants are reset. This seems like heroic treatiuent and is certainly 

 effective. It is claimed by those who have tried it that the plants 

 show no ill effects after a week or two, and in the garden it 

 is quite feasible to use it on cabbage and cauliflower plants. On 

 radishes, turnips and onions it is, of course, unavailable. 



One kind of handwork is always in order, especially in the 

 onion field. It liappens not infrequently that there is only a 

 slight infestation — a few plants here and there — and not enough 

 to make the farmer feel like making any general treatment. The 

 infested onions are always useless and should be taken out with a 

 trowel, so as to get all the maggots, and put into a pail, which, 

 wlien all infested plants have been placed in it, can be drenched 

 with kerosene. One of the largest and most successful onion- 

 gTowers I have known always carried a tin pail and trowel with 

 him into the field, and by keeping a constant lookout prevented the 

 insects from getting any considerable start. When he saw^ reason 

 to believe in the danger of a more general attack he used the fertil- 

 izer application by first turning away from the rows with a hand 

 plow and then turning back again after the application. His crops 

 never suffered materially, although those of his neighbors did. 



Oil Mixture?. 



In our experimental work last season two other substances were 

 used, namely, scalecide, w^hich is one of the soluble oils, and kero- 

 sene emulsion. They were used against both the onion and the 

 cabbage maggots, and in an experimental cabbage plot more plants 



