1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
339 
GUARDING AGAINST CABBAGE 
MAGGOT. 
L. B., Woodridge, N. J .—Is there any way 
of guarding against the Cabbage maggot? 
It has caused quite a lot of damage to our 
crops, especially cabbage, turnips and black 
radishes. 
Ans. —The simplest, most practicable, 
and efficient preventive method for the 
Cabbage maggot that I have tested is the 
Goff tarred paper card method. This con¬ 
sists simply of a small card of ordinary 
tarred paper, which is so cut as to be 
quickly and closely applied around the 
stems of cabbages or cauliflowers and 
pressed closely down to the ground. This, 
when properly applied, effectively prevents 
the adult insect or fly from laying its 
eggs at the base of the plant. A handy 
tool has been devised for cutting these 
cards rapidly; it is illustrated in the figure. 
These cards should be applied as soon 
as the plants are set out, and care should 
be taken in putting them on, and also in 
cultivating the plants so as not to get 
any dirt around the top of the cards. 
This method has been used on a large 
scale, some growers using many thousands 
of the little cards. Practically all other 
efficient methods of fighting this pest did 
not act as preventives, but as killing 
agents on the maggots. The best and 
cheapest insecticide I have used for this 
purpose is an emulsion made of one 
pound of hard soap dissolved in one 
gallon of hot water, into which one pint 
of crude carbolic acid is then poured, 
and the whole agitated into an emulsion. 
Take this stock emulsion and dilute one 
part with 30 equal parts of water, and pour 
this mixture freely around the bases of the 
plants as soon as any signs of the maggot 
appear. The mixture is cheap, and can be 
freely used without injury to the plants. 
It would be a good practice, where the 
maggots are almost sure to appear each 
year, to make the first application soon 
after the plants are set out, and repeat it 
once a week or 10 days until about June 
first, in New York. Either of tfie above 
methods will prove effective in controlling 
the Cabbage maggot. As it is the same 
insect which infests radishes and turnips, 
the carbolic acid emulsion can also be 
used on these plants with success where 
the card method would be impracticable. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
Grafting Apples; Cultivating Horseradish. 
M. 8. F., Kingston, Mass. —I have a Tol- 
man Sweet apple tree that always bears, but 
the fruit is woody, and I have a Golden 
Russet that does the same. If I have them 
grafted with good fruit, will the old trees’ 
habit affect the fruit of the new graft? 2. 
How can I raise horseradish? Is it best 
to plant seed or get plants and how is it 
prepared for use? I buy it in bottles. 
Ans. —1. If your Tolman and Russet 
trees bear knotty or woody apples there 
must be something wrong with the soil 
or location, and grafting them over with 
scions from other trees of the same varie¬ 
ties would not be likely to help matters. 
Both kinds make good stocks for top¬ 
working, and if grafted with other good 
varieties may bear good fruit. 2. Horse¬ 
radish is always grown from divisions or 
root cuttings, as it seldom produces seeds. 
Procure some fresh roots, the thickness of 
a lead pencil, cut them in lengths of four or 
five inches and plant them about 20 inches 
apart in rich soil, small end downwards, 
and cover top end about two inches deep. 
Roots will form and tops come through in 
a few weeks and make fine plants by Fall. 
The roots may be dug any time in Winter 
or Spring, washed, scraped and grated. 
The grated root when moistened with vin¬ 
egar is ready for the table. Horseradish 
root-cuttings ready for planting are sold 
by most seedsmen. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
Thoughtful 
People 
DUG 125 bii. POTATOES 
IN ONE HOUR 
Battle Creek, Mich., November 12. 1902. 
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