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The Fbrists^ Review 



July 22, 1915. 



Vegetable Forcing 



THE SOIL IN SUMMER, 



The Ohio Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Wooster, O., recently issued 

 Bulletin 281, "Summer Treatment of. 

 Greenhouse Soil," dealing with the 

 work of the grower of vegetables under 

 glass. The conclusions are as follows: 



1. The common greenhouse crops of 

 Ohio, tomato, cucumber and lettuce, 

 require different soil conditions for 

 maximum yields. 



2. Lettuce can be grown continu- 

 ously with safety on unrenewed ma- 

 nured soils. 



3. Tomatoes and cucumbers are 

 sensitive to conditions found in old 

 soils and yields are quickly affected, 

 demanding' treatment or renewal of 

 soils after two or three seasons' use. 



4. The drying of the soil during the 

 idle summer period seems to adversely 

 affect the soil conditions for tomatoes 

 but not for lettuce. 



5. Summer manure mulcli is recom- 

 mended to check adverse soil conditions 

 for tomatoes and cucumbers. 



6. Summer mulch may not obviate 

 the necessity of soil sterilization, but, 

 in part, it appears to answer that pur- 

 pose. 



IjARYje in cabbage plants. 



We have several rows of late cabbage 

 plants and find that small white mag- 

 gots have been eating the roots. Will 

 you kindly inform us how we can rid 

 the plants of these pests? 



W. E. K. C— N. Y. 



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These maggots are the larvae of a 

 small fly. They eat into the crown and 

 roots of young cabbages, cauliflower, 

 turnips, etc. This is a hard pest to 

 control. You can bore a hole four or 

 five inches away from each transplanted 

 cabbage and pour in a scant teaspoonful 

 of carbon bisulphide, at once closing up 

 the hole. The gas generated suffocates 

 the grubs. The carbolic acid emulsion 

 is used a good deal for maggots. Dis- 

 solve one pound of any hard soap in a 

 gallon of boiling water; add one pint 

 of carbolic acid; agitate to emulsify 

 well. Use one part of this to thirty 

 parts of water and apply to the roots 

 of cabbages, either transplanted or in 

 the seed beds. Two or three applica- 

 tions, sometimes more, are necessary to 

 clear out the maggots. I would suggest 

 liming your land well in the fall as a 

 protection against maggots and other 

 soil pests. It will not keep all away, 

 but will greatly diminish their num- 

 bers. C. W. 



E. E. STEWART 





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