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As soon as the young cabbages appear above the 

 ground it attacks them by eating off the seed 

 leaves; later, when the second leaves appear, the 

 danger lies in another quarter, and it will often 

 be noticed that the plant wilts and changes colour. 

 The grub has eaten away the roots. 



Professor Hulst recommends, for suppression 

 of this insect, the kerosene emulsion, one part of 

 the oil to twelve or fifteen parts water. In plant- 

 ing out cabbages the roots should be dipped in 

 the emulsion; and thereafter, at intervals of about 

 two weeks, enough of this compound should be 

 poured around the base of the stalks to saturate 

 the earth to the depth of at least an inch, whether 

 the maggots appear to be present or not. 



The same insects that attack young cabbage 

 plants, and turnips, also infest the radish. In 

 some localities it is almost impossible to grow 

 radishes of a size fit for the table before they are 

 practically destroyed by a small maggot. This 

 maggot appears to be the larva of a fly, closely 

 related to those so destructive to the onion. If 

 radishes, cabbages, cauliflowers and onions are 

 growing in adjacent rows it has been found that 

 the fly will attack all the rows successively, taking 



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