A scheme for preventing parasites of the cabbage family from depositing their eggs comes from the U.S.A. Department of Agriculture. It consists in placing sand saturated with kerosene—a cupful to a bucket of dry sand—at the base of tho plants along the rows. It will also kill young maggots.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 8, 4 October 1918, Page 8
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49Untitled Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 8, 4 October 1918, Page 8
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