On page 239 "J. R.," Elizabethtown, N. J., inquires how to get rid of the maggot that destroys cabbage by boring the root. I have been troubled very much with the same pest in my cauliflower. My remedy is to remove the soil from about the plant and thoroughly clean out the maggots, then put in fresh soil with a liberal quantity of superphosphate of lime mixed in. I have not lost one plant in fifty treated this way. To rid the ground of the pests I would recommend to plough in the fall, and scatter on eighty bushels of salt to the acre, well harrowed in. I think that air slacked lime, say about ten barrels to the acre, would also be of great benefit. Springfield, Mass.