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^n the Grub' JVerm. 



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TO THE CONDUCTORS OF THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



Gentlemen, 



The very great damage cccafioned by the ravages of the 

 grub, to the wheat and oat crops, fowu upon clover lea in 

 the Spring of this year, made many people defirous of 

 knowing the fpecies of fly, from which this deftru£live rep- 

 tile originated. From thofe that were opened in April and 

 May, the embryo appeared to be of the beetle tribe \ but, 

 though this feemed probable, yet nothing certain could be 

 determined from the appearance in fo early a ftage of its ex- 

 iltence. In order, therefore, to afcertain the matter, I put 

 fome of them into a box v/ith earth, and fed them daily with 

 blades of wheat and oats, of which they ate confiderable quan- 

 tities, for five or fix weeks, when they got into a dormant 

 ftate, and continued fo till the lait wee|c in July, at which 



period 



