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know. Much of the evidence in favour of the view that 

 finger and toe is caused by the chemical condition of the 

 soil, either originally in the soil or communicated by the 

 manurial constituents which may be put into it, very singu- 

 larly enough has been brought forward in connection with 

 the disease known as " anbury." But in ignorance of the 

 fact that this disease and finger and toe are not the same 

 thing, the evidence applicable to the one only has been 

 taken as applicable to the other ; whereas they have no 

 connection. Not but what a root may have finger and toe 

 and anbury at the same time, but because this is so, it no 

 more follows that they are identical in nature, than it fol- 

 lows that, because a man has consumption and a broken 

 leg" at the same time, that both are of the same character. 

 When one reads then of anbury or finger and toe, the " or " 

 should be made into "and," and each disease considered 

 from its own point of view. 



123. Anbury. This disease causes the turnips to be 

 covered to a greater or less degree with excrescences of a 

 wart-like character, which, when broken, yield a softish or 

 juicy matter, and sometimes grubs are found in them. 

 Lime is said to be a specific for this disease. As has been 

 already stated, the finger and toe and the anbury are very 

 frequently, if not generally, considered to be one and the 

 same disease ; and in this view the remedy for the one is 

 supposed to be applicable to the other. "We venture to 

 hold a different view, and that which we have already 

 explained in the preceding paragraph. An authority 

 upon the cultivation of turnips proposes the following 

 remedial measures for the prevention of the diseases to 

 which the crop has been so remarkably of late the subject 

 of attack : first, he recommends the avoidance of the too 

 frequent repetition of the swedes and common turnips upon 

 the same land, interpolating between them a crop of man- 

 golds or carrots, giving the preference to the mangolds; 

 secondly, to adopt the autumn culture and cleaning of the 

 land, avoiding spring ploughing as much as possible, using, 



