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ART. XIV. 
A short account of the long Earru-Worm, which 
preys on the Roots of Wheat Planis. * 
In a Letter to the SECRETARY: 
[By Francis Furser, Bailiff to J. P, ANpERDoN, efq.] 
SIR, Henlade, April 24, 1797. 
Y mafter has ordered me to fend you a parti- 
cular account of the worm found at the root, 
devouring the plants of wheat of many fields in 
this neighbourhood: 
I found this worm firft in half an acre of tranf 
planted wheat, about the 24th of March, which 
made me inclinable to fearch in another field the 7th 
of April, where the wheat plants have been going 
off ever fince they firft came up, to fee if I could find 
out the worm there. In that field I found feores of 
plants totally deftroyed by this worm, where I found 
from one to three under each plait; fome part of 
the field was rolled the 3d of March, but the worm 
was juft the fame in the rolled wheat as in the other 
part of the field that was not rolled. 
The worm is red, or rather of a yellow caft, and 
its make is about one inch long, with eleven or 
twelve joints, a hard fhell, white within, fix legs 
before, and one behind, with a black downy or 
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