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The Emporia News
Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas
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At a recent meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society in England, Mr. Fisher Hobbs presented two successful remedies for combating the destructive turnip fly: a mixture of gas ashes, lime, sulphur, and soot applied to young plants; and another using sulphur, lime, and road-scrapings, applied similarly.
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The Turnip Fly.
In England, where the turnip is an important crop, there have been many "remedies" applied for that destructive little insect, the turnip fly. At a late meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, a member, presented the two following remedies, which he had used with success:
First Recipe. Take one bushel of fresh white gas ashes, or fine wood ashes may be used instead of gas ashes; one bushel of fresh lime from the kiln, six pounds of sulphur; ten pounds of soot—to be well mixed together, and got to as fine powder as possible, so that it may adhere to the young plant. This is sufficient for two acres when drilled at twenty-seven inches, to be applied early in the morning when the dew is on the leaf, with a broad-cast machine, or sprinkled with the hand carefully over the rows. If the fly continues troublesome, the process should be repeated, always when the plant is damp. In light land it is best to make the drills on the flat, the ground being well prepared to receive the seed.
Second Recipe.—Take fourteen pounds of sulphur, one bushel of fresh lime; two bushels of road-scrapings, or a substance of mold where road scraping cannot be obtained, per acre. Mix together a few days before it is used. Apply very early in the morning or late at night, in the same manner as in No. one, using the horse hoe immediately after.
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Mr. Fisher Hobbs presented two remedies for the turnip fly: First, a mixture of one bushel gas or wood ashes, one bushel fresh lime, six pounds sulphur, ten pounds soot, mixed fine and applied to damp young plants for two acres. Repeat if needed. Second, per acre: fourteen pounds sulphur, one bushel fresh lime, two bushels road-scrapings or mold, mixed beforehand and applied early morning or late night, followed by horse hoeing.