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a good trap may be made by placing small potatoes with a hole in them just 

 under the surface of the ground, at different intervals. The wireworms will, 

 in general, prefer this to any other food, and a daily examination ^vill sei-ve to 

 entrap a great many of them. 



351. dulling in Broccoli.— "^\iis disease, so destructive to a crop of broc- 

 coli, especially on poor land and under indifferent culture, may be prevented, 

 in some degree, by dipping the roots, before planting, in a thick mixture, 

 composed of I peck of soot and 1 lb. of saltpetre, with water added to make 

 it the consistency of paste. A more certain remedy, however, is found in a 

 proper system of cropping and manuring, by which this exhausting vegetable 

 is made to follow, in rotation, crops which act as deepeners and restorers ot 

 the qualities withdrawn by previous crops of Brassicse. 



