Insect Pests

The following is ex ised from Miss Ormerod's report to the Boyal Agiicultura! Society : — Mr Jtalph Lowe, writing from n,ear Slea.ford, Lincolnshire, records the success of an. application of 3 tons per imperial acre of |: in killing vermin in root crou" " , ' ICQe Others substantially gup*- ' and m&ny As to the pro-- rt him - „ „ Glennie si"" ...ntives or remedies, Mr fchfl-' -,-gests as the only way to make circumstances disagreeable to the enemy would be to 'dress the land with gas Jim 3 , srot, or kindred substances.' Mr John Woolmet, Hounslow, says—' I believe gas lime to be the only practical cnre for the maggot tribe that infest our Brussel sprouts, broccoli, and cabbage tribe.' Mr John Spiers, Newton Farm, Glasgow, assures Mus Ormerod and her readers that the maggot was exceptionally destructive in 1883, and that on hi3 farm the destruction was greatest where the manurial application was heaviest. TLe immediately preceding remarks apply to turnips as well as to cabbage. With reference to cabbage root maggot, Mr Poyd. Callendar Park Gardens, says that ' wh?re he had U3ed gas lime he had been free from attack, whilst at the other places where it had not been used the attack was very bad.' This should encourage farmers in the application oE that ingredient wherever available, notEomuih on the grounds of manurial value 83 of insect repressi in. The attacks |on grass aid 'corn crops are next dealt of, and with regard to these Miss Ormerod 8;iy fi : — 'It does not appear that ■when the aphis is carrying on i;s attack in the early stage of the wheat to the leaves or stems, aud afterwards to the ear?, an •• remedy can be brought to bear : hut, as a meain of prevention, probably treatment in breaking up of ley, dressings of lime, ess-lime, lime and salt, blushing, burning rubbish, &c, which are advised to clear these fruitful headquarters of our worst pests, such as wireworm and daddy longtegs grub, would be very successful in e'earing aphides from the land before the next erop. Regaining dadcty longlegs it is observed that : — ' Amongst the many bad crop attacks of the past ko;i on perhaps that of the daddy hnglegs grubs whs the most widely spread and the most lasting. Early in the year inquiry began as to fie nature of the grub?, which were then working at the crop roots, an'l tbete continued more or less until with auturna a vast a;pearance of the flies gave reason to expect another attack of their grubs ntxfc spiing, The attack wa* reported from many places, and fiom as far north as Caithness in fr'coJland down (o B/ightoD. It w;s injurious to grass pfisiures, oais, and wheat ; to beans, peas, and turnips : likewise to s'rawbenies, and io lawi s in public gaidens or squares ia London asd Brighton.'

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