The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14
Remedies
Remedies.
When corn is attacked dressings of soot, lime, nitrate of soda and guano may be used with some advantage, especially if soaking showers follow the applications. In cases where peas and beans are suffering from their onslaughts, horse and hand hoeing should follow dressings of these manures. In market gardens pieces of swedes, mangels, or vegetable marrows, if procurable, should be put between the drills to attract the Millipedes from the growing crops, as they burrow into these like wireworms, and can be taken from them and destroyed.