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is often fatal to onions, and I lose about half the crop; but, then, I 

 generally have a very good crop, because I don't believe in thinning 

 out until I see that all danger to the plants is out of the way. Now 

 there seems to be a certain time of the year for this maggot to work 

 which lasts about two or three weeks ; after that time is past, the 

 onion seems to grow all right. I see that some recommend letting an 

 onion patch that the maggots will injure, rest two or three years. 

 That is the only cure for it. The onion will grow on the same land 

 every year better than any other crop. They seem to be better on 

 the same land if not attacked by disease. 



Mr. Watts. I suppose it is a well-known fact that cabbages can- 

 not be grown on the same land, on stable manure, two years succes- 

 sively. Cabbage is a plant that, if it is planted on new land, will 

 never be troubled with the maggot ; it may, however, grow stump- 

 rooted. 



Now anyone who likes cabbages will surely like Brussels Sprouts, 

 and how much better it would be to grow fewer cabbages and more 

 Brussels Sprouts. They are delicious and go far ahead of cabbages; 

 in fact, they will do better than cabbages. 



Question. You mean if you get good Brussels Sprouts? 



I don't ever have any trouble in getting good ones. I certainly 

 should grow Brussels Sprouts in preference to cauliflower. I only 

 raise a little cauliflower for pickles. 



Now I would like to move a vote of thanks to the essayist, Mr. 

 Kinney. 



Chairman. It is moved that the Society give a vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Kinney. 



Mu. FiSKE. Mr. President., — As long as the question of club-footed 

 cabbages is up for consideration, I can say 1 have had a little experi- 

 ence in this line. I set out to raise some very early cabbage, and I 

 got early plants and set them on a piece of ground that was ploughed 

 the August before, and it was mellow and in good condition. We 

 put on quite a large amount of stable manure and set out the plants 

 sometime in April. They grew finely, then after awhile they looked 

 wilted, and I found that they were getting stump-footed. I happened 

 to see in a newspaper that soft soap poured around the roots would 

 save the plant, and I got a few gallons of soft soap ; 1 put, perhaps, 

 a teacupful of soft soap around the roots, and then covered it with 

 dirt, and whether the cause of the stump-root had got through 

 working, or whether the soft soap saved the plant, I don't know. 



