QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 81 



A. On ridges ; but not more than of one inch elevation when settled 

 down. On ridges the seed just drilled is not subject to flooding by rain 

 and throughout the season is more easily liept clean. 



480. Q. When spraying plants how much solution should be applied? Spraying. 

 A. Just enough to thoroughly moisten the foliage of the plants. 



481. Q. Can a fungus working beneath the surface of the soil be checked Fungus, 

 by Bordeaux mixture ? 



A. Very doubtful. 



482. Q. Can cabbage plants which have developed club root be made Club Root 

 healthy by any application ? *° 



A. No. Once the fungus has taken hold of a cabbage plant no appli- ^ *^®' 

 cation will make that plant healthy. As in the case of turnips, a preven- 

 tive is an application of sixty to seventy bushels to the acre of air- 

 slacked stone lime. 



483. Q. What is the best remedy to use in the treatment of club root in ciub Root 

 turnip ? in 



A. There is no remedy to arrest the disease, but air-slacked stone lime turnip. 

 used at the rate of seventy to eighty bushels to the acre, and applied be- 

 fore the sowing of the seed, retards if it does not destroy the fungus. 



484. Q. How can I make Bordeaux mixture ? Bordeaux 

 A. Provide half sections of whisky or vinegar barrels in which to do Mixture. 



the mixing and contain the solution. Take as follows, or in greater pro- 

 portions, five pounds sulphate of copper, five pounds quicklime, twenty- 

 five gallons water. Dissolve the sulphate in two gallons of hot water, 

 slack the lime in two gallons of water, and thoroughly strain it to remove 

 all sediment, and when cold mix it with the solution of sulphate. Then 

 mix the whole in the remaining twenty-one gallons of water. 



485. Q. What is the name of the bean rust and how can it be prevented? Bean Rust. 

 A. The bean rust is a fungus known as anthracnose, and it attacks not 



only the pod but the foliage and stems. A partial preventive is, as soon 

 as the young plants are above ground to spray them with Bordeaux mix- 

 ture and repeat the application every week. 



486. Q. What is the best spraying solution to stop leaf blight on potato Spraying. 

 vines ? 



A. Bordeaux mixture reduced to half strength by the addition of water. 



487. Q. Do you advise a bath for potato seed before planting ? Potato Bath. 

 A. Yes ; plunge the cuttings for two or three hours in a solution made 



in the proportion of ten ounces of corrosive sublimate to eight gallons of 

 water. This deadly poison is a preventive of the fungus causing scab 

 on young potato tubers. 



488. Q. What should be done to drive off the squash bug ? Squash Bug. 

 A. As these bugs are sap suckers no application of mineral or other 



poisons is effective. The only remedy is after the crop is over to destroy 

 all vines and avoid planting on the infected ground. 



489. Q. What is the best remedy against the striped cucumber beetle ? cucumber 

 A. There is no best remedy. Spraying with arsenites applied from an Beetle. 



