resembles. I placed some of them, takfen 
from the roots of cabbage infested with 
them, in a bottle, and to my great surprise, 
in a few days, saw common house flies 
emerge from the chrysalis of this cabbage 
maggot. If it was not the house fly, then 
it was so near like it that I don’t know the 
difference. I decided that these maggots 
are the larvae of the common house fly. It 
was a very interesting sight. The fly is 
quite white when he first emerges, but 
expands his wings and turns black in a few 
moments before your eyes. It is a pretty 
experiment and easily tried. Don’t take 
my word, but see for yourself. I could 
scarcely believe my own eyes. 
As a remedy, some liquid that will kill 
the maggot, but not injure the cabbage, 
must be applied to the infected plant. 
Prof. A. J. Cook, of Agricultural College, 
Lancing, Michigan, first recommended 
“Bisulphide of Carbon,” but has since 
found a soap and kerosene mixture to be 
more effective and safer. (See Rural New 
Yorker for March 21st. 1885.) Put one 
quart of soft soap, with one gallon of v> ater, 
into a kettle and heat it to boiling point, 
and while still boiling hot stir in thorough¬ 
ly one pint of kerosene oil. It is said that 
while being sure death to the maggot, this 
•increases the growth and vigor of the 
plants. I have not tried this remedy yet, 
but shall test it if I have occasion. 
It would be interesting to know how or 
when, the fly places the eggs at the roots of 
the cabbage. 
It seems to be more prevalent on some 
sides of the field than elsewhere, which 
leads me to think that the eggs are not on 
,the plants when set out. 
Padilla, Wasli. Territory. 
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Scab in Potatoes. 
Agricultural papers are just now giving 
considerable space to the discussion of this 
subject. Many stem to be of the opinion 
that manuring heavily with stable manure 
is the chief cause of the trouble. But 
against this view may be set the fact that 
many farmers who raise the finest of pota¬ 
toes use barn-yard manure most liberally 
on the crop. The best potatoes that I ever 
raised were planted in sandy soil with a 
large scoop-shovel of stable manure in the 
bottom of each hill at planting. The yield 
was large and the quality first-class: tubevs 
remarkably smooth, clean, perfect in form 
and color, dry and mealy, and of fine re¬ 
markable size. None of the theories ad¬ 
vanced seem to me to be reasonably ex¬ 
planatory of the disease,—its causes, cure, 
etc. May not the root of the difficulty be 
found in the age and composition of soils, 
rather than in fertilizers used, or in the 
depredations of wire-or angle-worms? I 
believe it may; and in support of this view 
is the fact, that on almost any virgin or 
new soil, potatoes invariably turn out well 
now, as they used to in the early history of 
our country. Old, worn-out, sour soils will 
not fail to produce scabby potatoes “every 
time;” while old or new soils, rich in veg¬ 
etable mold and potash, never fail to yield 
bright, sound, handsome tubers, with, or 
without stable manure or patent fertilizers, 
in either case. Manuring, of the right kind, 
will be found to lessen and retard the dis¬ 
ease always rather than increase it.— R. 
Nott in American Seedsman. 
Cultivating the Raspberry. 
Some cultivation of raspberries set last 
fall in hedge rows should be given early in 
the season each year before the plants are in 
bloom, but it should be shallo w so as not to 
break the roots. In fact, after thr first sea¬ 
son there should be no deep plowing or cul¬ 
tivating between them at any time, espe¬ 
cially among those that are propagated by 
a division of the roots. The more they 
are broken, the more abundant will be the 
suckers. Except what few are wanted for 
making new plantation or for fruiting canes 
directly in the row, these suckers are useless 
as weeds and should be treated as such as 
soon as they appear above ground; cutting 
them off just at the surface of the ground 
will soon destroy them.— J. H. Hale , South 
Glastonbury, Conn. 
A Pennsylvania dairyman had his jaw 
broken the other day, but it is not known 
whether a cow kicked him or the pump- 
handle flew up.— Philadelphia Call. 
