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COEN AND GRASS. 
Rape dust, heavy rolling, and nitrate of soda, at the rate of 2 cwt. per 
acre, were successively tried, but little benefit appeared to result. I 
then, as we have gas made near, got a water-cart about half filled with 
the water off the gas-tar, and diluted it just weak enough not to kill 
the plant, and applied it by means of a watering-can, and found a 
most beneficial result.—(J. Prince, Foston, Derby.) 
Rape Cake, Meal, &c. 
Communications regarding the serviceableness of various kinds of Rape cake, 
nuts, or meal in diminishing amount of injury from Wireworm attack, 
whether by acting as a fertilizer or by attracting the Wireworm aivay 
from the crop. * 
Found Rape cake of great service in stopping the ravages of Wire- 
worms to growing crops, either because they preferred it to the plants 
(as could be seen by the presence of many eating their way into the 
lumps of cake), or, as some asserted, by poisoning them.—(J. Forrester, 
for the Right Hon. Viscount Portman, Bryanston, Blandford.) 
* I have no doubt that the Rape cake I have used acted as a 
stimulus to the crop, the Barley being much heavier on the portion of 
the field dressed with Rape cake than on the other portion ; but as the 
part on which the cake was sown was previously infested with Wire- 
worm I believe it attracted the Wireworms from the plant. It may 
have killed them also, but of that I am not sure.—(George McQueen, 
Coed-y-Dinas, Welch Pool.) 
* About the application of Rape dust to the land to destroy Wire- 
worm, I may say that in 1874 I got two tons of very fine Rape dust 
(as fine as flour). I mixed it up with the Turnip manure, and sowed 
it in the drills in the usual manner. The result was very good. 
There was no Wireworm, and the crows did not look for any, but on 
about an acre of the field that got no Rape dust the Worm was bad and 
the crows pulled the Turnips. In 1875 I used three tons with the 
same good result. Of course it has a certain value as manure as well. 
—(Edward Gordon, Mains of Kelton, Kirkcudbright.) 
Rape cake sown on the land has been found of much benefit.— 
(Adam Lee, Lydbury North, Shropshire.) 
I have seen very good results from the application of artificial 
manure, particularly from Rape cake. The Wireworm is very fond of 
this food, and by leaving the crop in order to feed on the cake thus 
frees the plant from attack.—(Fred Beard, Horton, Canterbury.) 
Rape cake of good quality is an excellent fertilizer for Wheat when 
sown at the same time, and Turnips do well as the following crop, but 
* The entries to which an asterisk is prefixed refer to observations regarding 
Indian rape, i.e., mustard cake. 
