10 TURNIP. 



BEDS. Biggleswade. One piece of Swedes was quite destroyed 

 by fly, and had to be resown with White Turnips, which also were 

 very much injured by them, and remained only half a plant. (J. L.) 



HERTS. St. Albans. The damage done by the Turnip Fly in 

 some farms in this neighbourhood is almost incalculable. Some few 

 seem to have escaped, but, generally speaking, after repeated sowings 

 the Swedes have been ploughed up and the ground sown with Rape or 

 White Turnips ; or the few Swedes left have been patched with White 

 or Yellow Turnips. On my own farm, out of sixty acres of Swedes, 

 only twenty have withstood the attack of fly ; the remaining forty 

 acres have been resown with White Turnips, which will be small, and 

 a poor substitute for a good crop of Swedes. (F. S.) 



Langleybury, near Watford. The Turnip Fly has been very 

 destructive to the crops this year. In the case of one small piece of 

 White Turnips put in for early feed, which comprised Green Globe and 

 Early White Stone, the Green Globe were not attacked ; but the 

 White Stone, although sown the same day and adjoining the former, 

 were all taken ; these were sown a second time, and were a miserable 

 crop. 



The whole of the first sowing of Swede Turnips (the Champions) 

 were destroyed by the Flea-beetle, although there was a good plant, 

 the weather at the time being hot and dry, with harsh winds. 



The loss per acre is estimated at 



Extra labour and seed . . . . 1 

 Loss of weight, through lateness in crop . 1 



Total per acre. . 2 (A. S.) 



Deard's End, near Stevenage. The fly (Phyllotreta undulata) has 

 done greater damage to Turnips than I ever knew it to do before, 

 owing greatly to the dry summer and the land not being moist enough 

 to make the plants grow away from them. At least 80 damage was 

 done to roots on my farm this season. (B. B.) 



SOUTH COAST. 



KENT. Kingsnorth. Mainly owing to the fly, the Turnip crops 

 were a complete failure. On the observer's own ground the plants no 

 sooner showed than the fly attacked them and cleared them off. A 

 second sowing, part Swedes and part Turnips, were swept away, 

 notwithstanding there was an excess of moisture, the land being too 

 wet to work on ; a third sowing was made as soon as practicable, but 

 it was too late for Turnips; and the only substitutes, Cole and Mustard, 

 did not have time to produce half a crop ; the loss is estimated at not 

 less than 50. 



The fact that our Turnip crops were so nearly ruined had the effect 



