. The lure of the land . ^ bappy here, re-plied Mr. Micklejohn. Upon further examination of cabbage and cauliflower affected byblight, we found in nine cases out of ten root magot had been at pest is a difficult one to fight, but bisulphide of carbon injected bythe root will kill them, while sulphur or wood ashes in the drill willkeep them out. I must confess we felt better, I would much rather fightan insect than a disease any day. Lettuce was ready to come out, it had been an interesting crop,full of failures. The majority of transplanted plants went up to drills they heade
. The lure of the land . ^ bappy here, re-plied Mr. Micklejohn. Upon further examination of cabbage and cauliflower affected byblight, we found in nine cases out of ten root magot had been at pest is a difficult one to fight, but bisulphide of carbon injected bythe root will kill them, while sulphur or wood ashes in the drill willkeep them out. I must confess we felt better, I would much rather fightan insect than a disease any day. Lettuce was ready to come out, it had been an interesting crop,full of failures. The majority of transplanted plants went up to drills they headed beautifully, teaching us the lesson that they mustbe thinned severely and kept cultivated while young, that without irri-gation during dry weather it is useless to try to grow One of the resultsof irrigation But gee Avhiz, its hard to thin it enough, said the book farmer,T believe every seed sown came up. Excuse me, Mr. Fullerton, said Ted, But at ome we bake alfthe seed before we plant it. Bake it, what for? So it cant come up sir, he replied. Then it isnt so scheme Ted, well just about try it next year. And the morewe have planted the more we are convinced that such things as lettuce,endive, beets, turnips and in fact any crop needing thinning shouldhave half the seed baked. Of all the varieties we tried, the Golden Queen suited us in color, golden of heart, solid, crisp and mild flavored, whileits tenderness exceeded any lettuce I have ever eaten. As the Far-mer says Big Boston isnt in it. On a small irregular shaped plot near the well, beans had come outas well as lettuce and the bean vines had been burned some time ago,anthracnose was too dangerous to have around. A small amount ofmanure was spread because being near the tower
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