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HEREFORDSHIRE. 



SUMMABIES OF TABLE AND BEPORTS.* 



The following table contains information regarding attack of 

 Turnip Fly in Herefordshire, together with methods of cultivation and 

 other points of treatment found serviceable in prevention of this pest. 

 The notes numbered 1 to 38 on this table have been contributed from 

 parishes lying in a district of a radius of seven miles round Leominster, 

 for the most part on alluvial or gravel soil, or, where this is not the 

 case, on clay, or clay to loam. 



Pages 89, 90, give fuller details from districts lying north, south, 

 east, or west in Herefordshire, and, together with the foregoing, give a 

 fair idea of the amount of attack in the county, and show that the same 

 principles of cultivation are acted on that are recommended by good 

 agriculturists elsewhere. 



Nos. 1 to 38. Working the ground early in the year, with various 

 details of treatment to keep in moisture, is noted at Nos. 5, 10, 14. 



The advantage of late sowing is noticed at Nos. 5, 9, 14, 24, 26, 

 and 35 ; of thick seeding at Nos. 12, 15, 29, 37, and 38. 



The use of Mustard in drawing off the fly-attack at No. 35 ; the 

 desirableness of a fine seed-bed and sowing after rain at No. 38 ; and 

 of a fine seed-bed, with forcing manures, at No. 12. 



Light -rolling, frequent rolling as soon as the crop appears above 

 ground, and rolling when the dew is on, are noticed at Nos. 3, 11, and 

 12; and liberal application of dissolved bones and frequent horse- 

 hoeing, at No. 23. 



With regard to steeps or dressings for seed, mention is made of 

 crystal oil and dusting with sulphur, at No. 3 ; of paraffin having 

 been found serviceable after some three years' trial, at No. 20 ; and of 

 carbolic powder drilled along with flour of sulphur and soot with the 

 seed, at No. 25. 



Dressings of lime, also of soot, and of lime and soot mixed in 

 equal parts, and applied as soon as the plants appear, are noted as 

 desirable at Nos. 16 and 17 ; as also sprinkling with lime at No. 27 ; 

 and lime and ashes, when the dew is on, at No. 80. 



Absence of fly attack is noticed as occurring on the part of a field 

 where there was burnt soil under, at No. 33 ; and the use of Elder- 

 boughs fastened on scufflers for brushing away fly when the dew is on, 

 at No. 2. 



* The following notes of information are, by desire, given only with the names of 

 the localities, not those of the senders, to whom I offer my thanks, together with my 

 acknowledgments to Mr. J. H. Arkwright, of Hampton Court, Leominster, through 

 whose valuable assistance I was favoured with the contributions. EP, 



