VEGETABLE GAKDEN PESTS 47 



To sow mustard as a catch-crop and dig it in in the 

 sjpring is a good thing. 



A dressing of Homco Eape Meal after thinning out is 

 an excellent remedy. 



Turnip Flea Beetle. In very hot, dry summers it is 

 difficult to get good turnips, owing to the presence of 

 this pest. 



Early and late sowing, good cultivation, freedom 

 from weeds, especially those which belong to the same 

 family as the turnip, and high feeding, do much to 

 ensure a crop. 



Frequent dressings of soot and finely powdered lime 

 will check ravages of the beetle. 



Weevils. The Cabbage and Turnip Gall Weevil is 

 easily recognized by causing the large knobs to form on 

 turnips and swedes, in which, if cut open, would be found 

 the thick, fleshy, wrinkled maggots, and on the stem 

 of cabbages and other Brassica below the surface of the 

 soil, preventing in this case true root formation. By 

 many this knob formation is considered a form of, and 

 is called, Club-root, though really it is not so. 



It is advisable to adopt a system of rotation of crops, 

 so as to avoid growing the same kinds of crops on the 

 same piece of ground two years in succession. 



Plant nothing but healthy plants free from galls on 

 their stems. 



It is a good plan before planting to dip the roots in 

 a mixture of clay and soot. 



Pea Weevils, of which there are several species, are 

 in some seasons very injurious by destroying the 

 foliage of young pea and bean plants. Dressings of 

 soot should be frequently given round and amongst 

 the plants. 



