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planned rotation. In this bulletin, Slingerland 

 recommends placing tarred paper cards close 

 to the young plants to protect them against the 

 maggot; rubbing the eggs of the maggot off 

 the base of the young plants, and injecting 

 bisulphide of carbon or carbolic acid emulsion 

 into the soil about the plants. It is necessary 

 to use a syringe made specially for this pur- 

 pose. 



The Cornell Bulletin 104, deals with cutworms, 

 and New York Bulletins 83 (p. 657) and No. 

 144, tell about the cabbage worm or butterfly, 

 the common yellow butterfly. Better look 

 them up. They recommend persistent use 

 of Paris green on the first crop, and a mixture 

 made of five pounds pulverized resin; one 

 pound concentrated lye; one pint fish oil or any 

 cheap oil except tallow; five gallons water. The 

 same treatment does for the cabbage looper. 



For aphids, or lice, read the New York Bulletin 

 83 (p. 657) and Florida Bulletin 34 (p. 270). 

 The injection of bisulphide of carbon in the 

 ground, or the application of kerosene emulsion 

 to both sides of leaves when young and small; 

 tobacco; pyrethrum; Persian insect powder — 

 any of these will prove more or less effective. 



New York Bulletin 83 (p. 683) will tell you 

 about methods of dealing with the Harlequin 



