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many of the articles that have been used. I was conversing 

 to-day with a gentleman who told me that he bought a cab- 

 bage at the market to put with the boiled dish which he was 

 having, and it made all those who ate it very sick indeed. 

 He did not know what was used on it. I have used helle- 

 bore for a number of years, and have never found any diffi- 

 culty from it, — it may be that others have ; but it stops the 

 ravages of the cabl)age worm wherever I have applied it, 

 with only one application. 



Secretary Sessions. You said, "black hellebore." Is 

 that any different from the white hellebore? 



Dr. Cragin. It comes in a paper. You can get it at 

 most of the druggists'. 



Secretary Sessions. Is it not white hellebore instead of 

 black ? Is not that the name of it ? 



Dr. Cragin. I have always called it black hellebore. 



Secretary Sessions. I l)uy it as Avhite helleliore. Can 

 Mr. Augur give us any light on the cabbage worm ques- 

 tion ? 



Mr. Augur. I can say that we have made brine strong 

 enough to bear up an egg, and applied it with a sprinkler 

 when the l)utterfly first appears, repeating it two or three 

 times, and we have found that to be effectual. It will not 

 injure the cabbage. The cabbage will stand it and seem to 

 thrive under it. 



Mr. Hall. I would like to ask if any one here has 

 experimented to ascertain the difference between ploughing 

 manure in and leaving it on the surface for the next year's 

 crop ? 



Secretary Sessions. Mr. Hersey. He knows almost 

 everything. 



Mr. Hersey. I know pretty near enough to know I don't 

 know anything. I want to say that I tried that experiment 

 some ten or fifteen years ago, when it was more the belief 

 that manure lost a great deal of its substance by remaining 

 on the surface through the winter than it is now. I took an 

 oblong piece of land and manured it all alike. I took what 

 we call kelp, sea-weed, which comes ashore on our beaches, — 

 a material that most people believe loses three-quarters of 

 its substance by lying on the surface, — and spread it on this 



