QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 127 



neck, with few root fibres, and the best "Winter keeper of all forms of 

 Ruta Bagas, 



793. Q. I only want to cultivate one sort of cauliflower. Which vari- Cauliflower, 

 ety do you recommend ? 



A. The Snowball. Early and reliable in a cauliflower country. If 

 you are not in such a locality it is not worth while to try and grow them 

 in the open field. Of course they can be grown under glass anywhere 

 under proper conditions of treatment. 



794. Q. A portion of my lawn, which I did not keep mowed down, is Sorrel. 

 full of sorrel. How can I get rid of it ? 



A. Broadcast air-slacked lime at the rate of fifty bushels to the acre — 

 the land is sour — that will sweeten it. 



795. Q. When drilling ruta baga seed, radish, spinach and other small Drilling. 

 seeds, should not the man pushing the drill straddle the row so as not to 

 tramp on the freshly placed seed? 



A. No ; let him walk right on top of the drill mark. If he had four feet 

 he would not do any injury. Where he tramps the seed will be up first 

 if the weather is dry. This indicates how advantageous rolling is, pro- 

 vided the ground be not wet and provided there be no rain for one or two 

 days. 



796. Q. Which are the most showy varieties of cantaloupes for exhibi- cantaloupes, 

 tion purposes ? Showy Sorts. 



A. The Large White French and the Large Black Paris. Tested in the 

 trial grounds of the Rural New Yorker, they were pronounced in Septem- 

 ber, 1894, the most remarkable ever seen for size, general appearance, 

 and quality, and most highly recommended to the public. 



797. Q. Which is the largest white flat onion ? Onion. 

 A. The Bloomsdale Pearl. Early, large, flat — very mild. 



798. Q. Which spinach will stand the longest in the garden without spi^ach. 

 shooting to seed ? 



A. The Ever Ready ; the leaves very thick, dark and sturdy, and only 

 shooting to seed long after other sorts have completely dried up. 



799. Q. Among onions, which is the earliest to make sets? Onion. 

 A. The Bermuda Red. 



800. Q. My turnip field, which two days ago was fine, the plants being xurnip Fly. 

 one inch high and thick in the rows, is to-day all eaten up by a black 



bug. What can I do ? 



A. Nothing but drill another field, it may be eaten up also — you will 

 have to run that risk. The turnip fly, a jumping beetle, is at times ex- 

 ceedingly destructive, eating the plants when from one-tenth to one inch 

 high. After the plants develop the rough leaf they are comparatively 

 safe. There is no remedy against this insect, as it often destroys the crop 

 the day after hatching out, generally destroying it before the insect is 

 known to be present at all. 



801. Q. Is it best to spread and turn under long-strawed barnyard gj^j.^^.^ 

 manure in the Autumn, or pile it for further decomposition and for appli- Manure. 

 cation in the Spring? 



