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weeks for cabbage lice and similar insects. Hellebore 

 is usually preferred for currant worms, but some use 

 paris green. Slug Shot is mentioned by several. A 

 number speak of wood ashes for onion maggot and to 

 sprinkle on young plants as a preventive. 



ITorst Weeds. — Purslane is the weed oftenest men- 

 tioned, and the only remedy offered is thorough culti- 

 vation. A. P. Edge half seriously suggests that gar- 

 deners encourage the use of the weed for greens. A 

 close second in unpopularity is witch grass, also called 

 couch grass, etc. When it becomes once established 

 in a garden no remedy is considered effective except 

 cultivation of a crop which requires frequent hoeing 

 and occupies the ground the whole season. In a small 

 garden it is practicable to root it out and carry it away, 

 and this method is frequently recommended, using a 

 harrow to loosen the roots and then raking them off' 

 the piece. All agree that persistent cultivation 

 throughout the season will kill it. Several have tried 

 spraying weeds with copper mixtures, but nobody 

 appears to consider this method more economical than 

 the common methods. 



Other weeds and remedies mentioned are: Wild 

 lettuce, for which prevention is declared better than 

 cure ; Canada thistle, to be dug, dried and burned ; knot 

 grass, clean culture ; ground ivy, rooting out ; smart- 

 weed, killed by frequent cultivation ; sorrel, driven out 

 by clean culture and by liming the soil. 



The Best Six Implements mentioned are plow, cul- 

 tivator, hoe, steel rake, harrow and seed drill ; that is, 

 the six above named were mentioned in the greatest 

 number of replies. Here is C. P. Augur's list : Chilled 

 steel reversible plow, smoothing harrow, seed drill, 

 horse cultivator, spike-tooth cultivator and compressed 

 air sprayer. Mrs. L. A. Ludwig prefers a spade, steel 

 rake, ten-inch plow, whether to be drawn by one or 



