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hairy head, and two little fpots on the back, near 
the tail part. The wheat is attacked by them under 
the furface of the earth, about the iffuing point of 
the coronal root; and they do not leave the plant 
till all the nourifhment or moifture is drawn from it. 
It is the general opinion that the dry weather, at 
and after the wheat feed-time, may occafion the 
worm; and it is obferved here, that the wheat is beft 
where the ground had worked dead at the time 
of fowing. 
I am, very refpettfully, fir, 
Your moft obedient humble fervant, 
FRANCIS FURBER. 
[NJB- The infect above-defcribed is a well-known, tho’ 
in fome places an unexpected, enemy to wheat crops, which . 
occafions great deftruftion. It may be a fruitlefs hope, that 
a radical remedy will be found for fo fecret and formidable 
an evil. But as it is poffible that this infe&t may be chiefly 
generated by fome particular kinds of manure, or circum- 
ftances of foil and feafon; an ingenuous obfervation may 
go, in fome degree, to the difcovery of the caufe; it is much 
to be defired, that thofe who may happen to afcertain any 
new faéts on the fubject, would be careful to impart them; 
and above all, to impart the knowledge of any fuccefsful 
means of preventing or leffening the evil. Src.] 
ART. 
