"J. R.," page 238, has only had in his 120 cabbage plants the experience of many a market gardener in this section with their thousands of plants. This maggot on the cabbage is getting to be a great enemy to the raising of early cabbages. They make their attacks upon the plants shortly after setting out, and act just as J. R. describes, stripping off all the roots, and leave nothing but a rotten stump, from which often a few weakly roots are sent out near the surface. When only a few eggs are hatched the damage to the plants is not so severe, and often recover, so that they make a good growth afterwards; but when they are attacked with the numbers described by your correspondent, then there is very little chance for the plants, unless the remedy for their destruction has been used, which is bi-sulphide of carbon; this must be used with the greatest care, as only a small portion kills the plants as well as the insects. The means of applying it is to bore a small hole with a pointed stick close to the plant, and put in a few drops of the liquid.

This remedy proves effectual every time, and can be used with profit on small patches, but in large patches I have not seen much profit; it is too expensive.

To our market gardener I sold this spring 5000 cabbage plants, which were all destroyed by this pest. I lost about 2000 myself, and I may safely say that at least half of all the early cabbage set out in this section was destroyed this season.

Youngstown, Ohio.