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and three quarters to three and a half Ib. per rod, 

 and point in very lightly after it has been broadcasted 

 on. 



4. Dressing the ground with lime the previous 

 autumn, or the drills with lime and soot (two parts of 

 lime and one part of soot) when sowing is sometimes 

 a good preventive. 



5. Mix a quart of paraffin oil with a barrow load 

 of wood ashes (about one cwt.) and broadcast in the 

 ground at the rate of a peck per rod after sowing the 

 seed. When the plants are about four inches high 

 apply a second dressing of the mixture. 



6. Water the ground with gas liquor, diluted 

 with about five times its bulk of water, before sowing, 

 applying about as much as in watering a seed-bed. 

 In case of attack, watering with gas liquor, diluted 

 with twelve times its bulk of water, is a good remedy. 



Watering the ground with diluted soluble phenyl 

 before sowing, and copious watering with an applica- 

 tion of the same, stops attack and throws the Carrots 

 into vigorous growth. A fluid ounce of Little's soluble 

 phenyl to six and a quarter gallons of water does not 

 injure the Carrots, but it should not be used over the 

 foliage. Lastly there remains the dressing with spirits 

 of tar mixed with sand, one gallon of the first to a 

 barrow load of the latter, the quantity sufficing for 

 two rods of ground. The dressing may be applied 

 in autumn and dug in, or after the Carrots are sown, 

 or it may be strewed at the time of sowing. 



All diseased Carrots should be pulled up and 



