80 TURNIP. 



of nitrate of soda per acre, sown along with the seed, combined with 

 thick sowing, forces the plant on till past danger, and the stimulant, 

 becoming soon exhausted, does not injure the crop afterwards. I 

 believe that liquid manure drilled in would have the same effect. 

 (P. M'C.) 



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. When 

 the land is very dry, the amount of water put in by a water-drill 

 is not sufficient to be of any service to the Turnip plant, and some- 

 times it is sufficient to cause the seed to germinate, and then, if rain 

 does 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. (T. H. B.) 



In garden cultivation " I watered with a good strong solution of 

 black-soap three afternoons in succession, and found that the pest was 

 gone. Later on, when the main garden crop sown early in June was 

 attacked, an application of very weak paraffined- water was made, and 

 this cleared the fly." (J. M'K.) 



In garden cultivation it has succeeded to have the plot of Turnips 

 infested by fly run over, by means of a watering-can, with soft-soap 

 suds. The application was made about four times, and in the morn- 

 ing and evening. T. B.) 



DRESSINGS AS A REMEDY FOB FLY-ATTACKS. 



Notes of such applications proving of little use ; notes of beneficial appli- 

 cation of lime ; lime and soot, or lime and wood-ashes ; gypsum, or 

 gas-lime; also spent hops and salt. Attention is drawn to the im- 

 portance of sprinkling the lime at night, or in the early morning, when 

 the dew is on the leaf, so that the powder may adhere. 



I have only tried (and given uj)) the ordinary mixtures, of which 

 gas-lime and soot are usually the principal ingredients. (J. E.j 



Elvaston, Derbyshire. We have tried quick-lime, soot, and other 

 artificial dressings with no very beneficial results. (G. M.) 



Bradford Estates, near Shifnal. On June 3rd the Turnip and 

 Cabbage crops were fast going with the fly. Dusting with quick-lime 

 and wood-ashes mixed was tried, and some of the Turnips (those that 

 were beginning to come into rough leaf) were thus saved ; the others 

 that were just brairding were so severely attacked that they had to be 

 resown. (J. C.) 



In the neighbourhood of Ormskirk, Lancashire, where the Turnip 

 Fly made its appearance, sprinkling the leaves with powdered lime in 



