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kill the worm. It has been my practice to turn hogs on to 

 the ground where I have seen the depredations of the white 

 worm. I have had mowing lands that have been in pre- 

 cisely the same condition as has been described. You could 

 roll the sod up ; there was nothing left but a small })ortion 

 of the roots just below the surface. I turn on two hogs to 

 the acre through the mouth of August and early part of 

 September, and give them just food enough to keep them 

 hungry, just in good working condition, and they work con- 

 stantly, almost, day and night, for those worms, and eat them 

 with as much relish and as great avidity as if it had been corn. 

 Then, if you do not choose to plough the land, if you still 

 wish to keep it in meadow, all you have got to do is to apply 

 a light coating of some fertilizer, sow your seed, go on with 

 a heavy bush, and the next year you will have a meadow 

 newly seeded ; you have destroyed the worm, and the grass 

 has actually been benefited instead of injured. In my twen- 

 ty-five acres of corn this year I had but about an acre, — which 

 was an outlying piece where I never had practised this 

 method, — that was troubled with worms ; whereas, there were 

 a good many fields in my neighborhood, where a man could 

 go in and take the rows right along, pull them up and throw 

 them into heaps Avith his hands. The roots were entirely 

 cut off and tiie crops destroyed by these pests. 



That is the most simple, the most inexpensive, and I may 

 say, perhaps, the most efficient remedy that I have ever been 

 able to discover, and at the same time the grass seems to 

 thrive and flourish. It helps the land if you wish to plant it 

 the next year ; and if 3^ou do not, if you will pursue the 

 method I have described, you will find that it will help your 

 meadow land. 



Adjourned, sine die. 



