up or down. Pains should be taken to I infested with the cabbage maggot. A 
pack close together, and then cover with a smart and careful man will go over 5000 
light layer of straw more to keep the dirt plants in a day. Late cabbage or those 
out from among the cabbage, than the planted out after the 1st of July are not 
amount of protection it will give. Cover often troubled by this insect, 
deep enough to protect from frost; pack And now a word as to clubfoot: If this 
carefully, taking the back of the spade or 
shovel to make it level and firm, so as to 
shed the water as completely as possible. 
In covering cabbage, potatoes or turnips, 
that are pitted outside, I find it best to com¬ 
mence at the base and throw on soil to the 
depth of two feet and then build up evenly 
on all sides. Unless care is taken to do 
this evenly, there is considerable danger of 
leaving thin places where the frost will go 
through. I find it pays, late in the fall, to 
apply an extra covering of straw or 
coarse manure, it will aid considerably in 
keeping out the frost. If straw is used, a 
few poles or old boards should be laid on it 
to keep the wind from blowing it away. 
If you have no cellar, and expect to open 
the pit to secure a supply at any time dur-1 
ing the winter, a better plan is to divide, 
putting what you want to use in one place, 
and those intended to be kept until spring, 
in another, so that it will not be necessary 
to open all when you want to obtain a small 
supply. 
The Pests of the Cabbage. 
One thing the cabbage grower may be 
thankful for—that the fly is a shortlived 
rascal, only living about a week after tak¬ 
ing the form of the perfect insect. . The 
first family that hatch out are usually here 
from the first to middle of May, about the 
time the early crop of cabbage begins to 
grow, and then is the time when the grower 
must be on the lookout,—for an ounce of 
prevention is worth a pound of cure in this 
as well as some other things. Go over the 
field and look carefully at every plant just 
at the surface of the ground, when the egg 
or young maggots may be seen and rubbed 
off with the fingers. Go over the plants 
again in three days, or look them over 
when hoeing, and no farther trouble will 
be had. This may seem a good deal of 
labor, and so it is, but it is the only certain 
way to have early cabbage in localities] 
disease is caused by an insect, why is it 
that it almost always makes its appear¬ 
ance where too strong manure is used ? It 
makes no difference what the kind of ma¬ 
nure may be, if there is too much of it, 
clubfoot is pretty certain to be there. I am 
having a pretty good illustration of this at 
the present time. Wishing to try for soma 
of the seedsmen’s premiums, I took a patch 
of ground that had a very heavy coat of 
manure last fall, and applied Mapes’ light 
soil manure, twelve quarts to the square 
rod. I planted it out to cabbage and cauli¬ 
flower, and expected to get heads nearly as 
big as a barrel. I have raised some astonish¬ 
ing heads, but they are on the wrong end 
of the stump. Now if an insect caused 
this trouble, why is it that the very next 
row, where the same fertilizer was used at 
the rate of only 400 lbs. to the acre, I ana 
marketing some as pretty heads of summer 
cabbage as any grower could wish to see, 
with not a sign of clubfoot among them? 
I am inclined to believe that clubfoot im 
cabbage, and scab in potatoes, may be 
traced to the same source, for the causes 
that produce one, will produce the other. 
11 am aware that scab in potatoes is some- 
! times the work of an insect, but I very 
much doubt if it always is. We need more 
light on this disease of clubfoot, and any¬ 
one who will discover a remedy that is 
always certain, will have the gratitude of 
every cabbage-grower in the land.— Ben¬ 
jamin White , Winsted, Gt., in Farm and 
Home. 
The following is a true copy of a letter 
received by a village schoolmaster: “Sur, 
as you are a man of nolege i intend to enter 
my son in your skull.” 
A cyclone resembles a woman, because 
when it makes up its mind to go somewhere 
all earth can’t stop it. 
A bright story in grammar is told of a 
little school girl. Quarrel, she parsed, is 
plural. Why? Because—why, it takes twe 
to make one. 
