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them from it, and that lime and ashes will also have 

 nearly a similar effect. 



Red Worms. 



These are slender, about an inch long, with a haid 

 coat, and pointed head. They eat off wheat, barley, 

 and oats, above the crown of the root; and they also 

 eat through turnips, potatoes, 6z;c. No positive remedy 

 is known, unless it be manuring with the manures be- 

 fore mentioned, which are offensive to all insects. 

 Summer-fallowings are also recommerided, as depri- 

 ving them of their requisite food. 



Palmer Worms. 



About half an inch in length, with many legs, and 

 very nimble. They give to apple-trees the same ap- 

 pearance that the canker-worm does. 



Mr. Dean says, that great numbers of them appeared, 

 in the year 1791, in Cumberland, Massachusetts, and 

 ate off all the leaves of the trees, except the membrane- 

 ous parts ; but that next year they disappeared. They 

 let themselves down from the trees by threads, similar 

 to the spider. 



No remedy known. 



Timber-worms, 



The smaller kind merely eat into the sap of wood, 

 and turn it into powder-post, as it is commonly called. 

 Felling timber about the middle of winter, the time it 

 has least sap in it, will obviate this difficulty. 



The large Boring-worm takes its residence chiefly 

 in pine timber. If the trees be scorched in a light 

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