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little sulphur, or Scotch snuff, which it is believed 

 will be found equedly efficacious. 



Turnip-fly. 



This insect eats the seed-leaves of the young 

 turnip-plai/ts, and thus destroys them. One rem- 

 edy is, to sow the ground with a mixture of old 

 and new seed, and, as these will come up at differ- 

 ent times, a part of the one or the other will stand 

 a better chance of escaping. 



Sowing a suitable proportion of tobacco seed 

 with the crop will, no doubt, answer every pur- 

 pose for keeping off this insect. But, as common 

 salt is found to be an excellent manure for this 

 crop, we would recommend about three or four 

 bushels of this article, made fine, with as many 

 pounds of sulphur, and perhaps one or two of 

 Scotch snuff, well mixed together, to be sown on 

 the ground, just as the plants are coming up; and 

 this, we venture to say, will be found effectual in 

 keeping off these insects. 



Garden-flea. 



Very destructive to young cabbage plants, 

 while in the seed-leaf Remedy: Sow some onion 

 or tobacco-seeds with the seeds of the plant; or, 

 sprinkle some sulphur or snuff on the growing 

 plants. Soapsuds sprinkled over them is also good. 



Lice. 



These infest catbages, pa,rticularly; but are des- 

 troyed by the frosts. They are easily extirpated 

 by smoak, particularly that of tobacco. 



Weavel. 

 A little black bug, very destructive to wheat 



