CABBAGE AND TURNIP-GALL WEEVIL. 
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another, with only interval enough to lay a heavy application of 
manure on the land, the weevils are likely fairly to swarm. 
The following observation, forwarded on June 22nd last, from a 
Sussex correspondent, gives some idea of the manner in which 
infestation may remain from a preceding crop :— 
“ I have just planted a rather large piece of ground with Brussels- 
sprouts, on land where sheep had fed off Rape this spring, and I find 
that many of the small Rape-stems lying in and about the ground 
have galls on them, evidently formed by the Cabbage-gall Weevil; 
some of these galls are empty, and some have maggots in them.” 
These maggots would, of course, carry on infestation, and where 
Cabbage is a constant crop of the district, it is very important to burn 
all the old stocks, or, at least, so destroy them that there is no 
possibility of the maggots causing recurrence of the trouble. If the 
stems are only lightly buried, or thrown to rot-heaps,—this does no 
good; for it will not hurt the maggots, and in due time the beetles 
will force their way up again to start new attack. 
Rotation with other crops is the best cure, but where Cabbage 
(including under this term Rape, Cauliflowers, Brussels-sprouts, or 
other plants of the Cabbage tribe, wild or cultivated, that are liable to 
this infestation) must be constantly grown, then the best application 
to the land appears to be gas-lime. This has been found useful for 
clearing infested ground, applied broadcast and pointed in, or as a 
dressing accompanied by deep trenching.* Where the area to be 
dealt with is not too great, trenching, if thoroughly done, is of great 
service in getting rid of attack, for if the top spit of land, with the 
maggot-cocoons or weevils in it, is turned down, and the lowest spit 
laid on the top, then the working part of the land (for a while at least) 
is purified from the infestation. Dressings of fresh field-soil are very 
useful in infested gardens. 
In planting seedlings, those that are already galled should be 
rejected, or, if possible, the galls should be removed. Wood-ashes 
are said to be a good preventive for attack on the roots, and dressings 
thrown on of sand, or ashes, or dry earth, with paraffin added in the 
proportion of one quart to a bushel of the dry material, would be very 
likely to be of service in preventing the weevils going down for egg- 
laying. 
The diseased growths known as “Club” in Cabbage, and as 
“ Anbury ” or sometimes “ Finger-and-Toe ” in Turnips, consisting of 
swollen masses and misformed roots, followed in bad cases by cracking 
and bursting of the surface, and putrefaction are only too well known. 
* For method of application, see p. 30. 
