23 



If the wart or gland-like excrescence is seen while 

 transplanting, throw all such plants away unless your 

 supply is short ; in such case carefully trim off all the 

 diseased portions with a sharp knife. If the disease is 

 in the growing crop, it will be made evident by the 

 drooping of the leaves under the mid-day sun, leaves of 

 diseased plants drooping more than those of healthy 

 ones, while they will usually have a bluer cast. Should 

 this disease show itself, set the cultivator going immedi- 

 ately, and follow with the hoe, drawing up fresh earth 

 around the plants, which will encourage them to form 

 new fibrous roots ; should they do this freely the plants 

 will be saved, as the attacks of the insect are usually 

 confined to the coarse branching roots. Should the dis- 

 ease prevail as late as when the plants have reached 

 half their growth, the chances are decidedly against 

 raising a paying crop. 



When the land planted is too wet, or the manure in 

 the hill is too strong, this dreaded disease is liable to be 

 found on any soil ; but it is most likely to manifest itself 

 on soils that have been previously cropped with cabbage, 

 turnip, or some other member of the Brassica family. 



Farmers find that as a rule it is not safe to follow 

 cabbage, ruta baga, or any of the Brassica family, ivith 

 cabbage, unless three or four years have intervened be- 

 tween the crops ; and I have known an instance in 

 growing the Marblehead Mammoth, where, though five 

 years had intervened, that portion of the piece occupied 

 by the previous crop could be distinctly marked off by 

 the presence of club foot. 



Singular as it may appear, old gardens are an excep- 

 tion to this rule. While it is next to impossible to raise 

 in old gardens a fair turnip free from club-foot, cab- 

 bages may be raised year after year on the same soil 



