892 REMEDTES. 



4. " For fallow after clearing, sow rape or mustard seed, 

 about the end of July, tmd plow it under when about a foot or 

 eighteen inches higli. Jo Craio." 



5. ■"The wire-worm has been known to disappear after a 

 crop of white mustard, of wliicli one linlf was eaten on the 

 ground by sheep. Joseph Paget." 



6. " I have no doul)t of mustard being a good remedy where 

 it can be applied so as to plowed under for the crop. 



"F. R. HULBERT." 



7. " White mustard sown and allowed to stand until it 

 comes into flower, is a very useful preparation — where jDlowed 

 in and pressed — for all corn, and I think prevents the wire- 

 worm doing so much mischief. Joseph Addison." 



8. "I have never known wire-worms troublesome after 

 mustard or vetches. ]M. Lock Blake." 



The following remedies are also discussed in this valuable 

 report of Miss Omerod's : 



Rolling and treading the land with sheep. 



Salt and kainite. 



Kainite. 



Gas lime and alkali waste. 



Gas tarwater. 



Rape cake meal etc. 



Hand-picking. 



Application of sea-weed. 



Rooks, etc. 



The weight of testimony is in favor of mustard as a remedy, 

 and it is probabl}' the most practical for California. 



REMEDY NO. 56. 



Burn the stubble and loose straw, and all the weeds and 

 grasses in and around fields that were infested, and also the 

 surrounding fields. The burning should be done early in 

 Autumn. This will apply to the joint-worm, wheat aphis, etc. 



See Remedies Nos. 20 and 106, A. 



