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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



ANBTJRY, OK CLUB--FOOT, IN TTJKNIPS, CABBAGE, &c. 



This disease, not uncommon in Great Britain, 



where it is generally known by the appellation of 

 "fingers and toes," has of late years appeared to 

 some extent in this country, especially among 

 cabbages. It was long supposed to be caused by 

 tlie agency of insects, but is now believed to result 

 from certain conditions of the soil. Our engraving 

 represents a purple-top Swede turnip badly atfected 

 with anbury. 



Turnips are most subject to this disease when 

 grown on a soft, rich, black soil, and it rarely occurs 

 in those grown on soils having a fair proportion of 

 clay xnarl, or lime, in their composition. On well 

 drained soils, it is said never to occur. When 

 turnips are grown for successive years upon the 

 same ground, they become liable to be affected with 

 this disease. The disease makes its appearance in 

 the early stages of the growth of the plant, and if 

 the bulbs remain healthy till they are the size of a 

 walnut, they are considered past danger from it. 

 When turnips are affected with it, the roots become 

 fibrous, .the circulation is stopped, the anbury 

 decays and attracts to it numerous insects, which 

 deposit their eggs therein, and the turnip soon 

 becomes filled with maggots ; which has led many 

 .to suppose the disease was caused by insects^ 



Cabbage plants are often affected with anbury 

 whfle in the seed bed; it then appearing in the 

 iform of small excrescences on the stem, just above 

 the roo,t£. .Such pkn;ts should invariably be re- 

 jected -at 'the time of -transplanting, and then -the 

 ■a^bbages may be expected to be free from club-foot. 



No specific remedy Jias yert been discovered for 

 |,hi3 disieftse, nor k oue>iikeljr $o ibe, as it appears to 



become chronic when it once attacks the plants 

 Prevention in this case, as in most others, is bette? 

 than cure. The use of lime, bone dust, and all 

 manures having a proportion of lime in them, is 

 said to prevent in a great degree the occurrence of 

 anbury among turnips. The n:>ost effectual way of 

 keeping it out of cabbages is to spread charcoal 

 dust half an inch thick, and lightly mix it vvith 

 the surface soil on those spots where cabbage plants 

 are raised from seed, just before sowing. Soot 

 would probably answer the same purpose. Atier 

 the cabbages are transplanted, they should be well 

 watered at the roots for a few days, and if any of 

 them show indications of being affected with 

 anbury, they had better be pulled up at once, as 

 they will never come to anything. 



DSAUGHT-BABS OR WHIFFLETREES. 



The subject of draught is one meriting some 

 attention, but our limited space will not allow us 

 to say all we could desire on this subject. The 

 whiflBetree commonly used in this country is too 

 often unnecessarily heavy. The best are those 

 made of well-seasoned second-growth white ash. 



We give cuts of two improved draught-bars 

 used in England. Fig. 1 is made of light wrought 



iron, trussed in the 

 middle, and welded 

 at each extremity, 

 Pj„ j_ leaving an eye for a 



ring to attach the trace hooks to, the iron bolt in 

 the centre having a hole to attach it to the cen- 

 tre bar. Fig. 2 is 

 made of wood, and 

 is trussed on a 

 wrought iron rod, 

 to which the Fig. 2. 



draught hook is attached by which to fasten it to 

 the doubletree, or a single horse plow, etc. 



The whifiletrees generally used in this country 

 are made too short, and the traces consequently 

 rub against the horses' sides or hips. They should 

 be long enough to leave the traces clear of the 

 animal. Another fault is, the animals, when 

 worked abreast, are placed too close together. No 

 draught power is lost by placing them so far apart 

 that they can not come in contact with each other 

 ,pear the shoulder. 



L^RGE Pig. — Mr. R. M. Wool, of Tompkins Co., 

 N. Y., aends us an account of a pig of the York- 

 shire ■breed, recently slaughtered by a neighbor of 

 his. It w:as just nine months old, and weighed 

 alive 509 tbs,, and when dressed, 449 lbs. 



