44 HEREFORDSHIRE. 



MABLOW, LEINTWARDINE. Loam on limestone ; part light. 



Amount damaged, and resown. Estimated that three-quarters of the 

 Turnip acreage of the neighbourhood has been damaged by the fly, and about 

 one-half resown : in many instances resown twice. 



Remedies suggested, and Remarks. The only remedy known is to get 

 the land well ploughed in the autumn, and keep the moisture in by scuffling 

 only, in the spring, and making it as fine as possible before sowing. There 

 should be an ample seeding and manuring, and, just as the seed is coming 

 up, spread on about forty bushels of hot lime to the acre. This treatment is 

 noted with regard to light land. 



Can give no reason for some crops escaping the fly, except the particular 

 time of sowing and the situation. Have often noticed where a field has been 

 sown at twice with only a day or two between, and all cultivated and manured 

 alike, that one part may be very good and the other very bad ; in some 

 seasons little damage is done by the fly, where the work is well executed ; 

 but this year all appear to have suffered alike, which I never remember 

 before. 



PENCOMBE. Clay and clay-loam. 



Amount damaged and resown. All the Swede crop damaged, and almost 

 the whole of the Swede ground resown, some of it twice ; some was resown 

 the second time with White Turnips. The White Turnips do not seem to 

 have suffered much damage. 



Remedies suggested, aud Remarks. Thick sowing is suggested as most 

 likely to save the crop, Sowing Mustard or White Turnip seed with the 

 Swedes (by the side of them) is also proposed. Sowing soot or dust early in 

 the morning over the young plants, if constantly repeated, would no doubt 

 check the damage. 



Boiling with a light wooden roll when the leaves are moist (as practised 

 in some parts of Norfolk) would have the same effect, if repeated when the 

 leaves of the plant had become free from dust. 



BROCKHAMPTON, near BROMYARD. Clay on sandstone. 



Amount damaged and resown. Sowing took place three times in several 

 cases ; in some four times. 



Remedies suggested, and Remarks. I sow on the flat, if possible without 

 ploughing the land in the spring, and roll down as firm as possible, as I find 

 the Swedes come away much quicker out of the way of the flea if the land 

 is really firm. With regard to reason of special crop escaping, part of a field 

 was accidentally drilled with the Mangel-barrel, and of course was four times 

 too thick ; that part, though covered with fleas, recovered ; the rest of the 

 field sown with the Swede-barrel had to be resown. I think I saved many of 

 mine by having a board on very low wheels drawn quickly up and down the 

 field, and having a curtain suspended from it to the ground to make the 

 fleas jump against the board, which was fresh painted at each turn ; I 

 certainly killed thousands, and my Turnips lived. 



