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collected from between two and three acres. Since 

 that time the land has been perfectly free from the 

 worms. The expense was heavy at the time, but was 

 undoubtedly profitable in the long run. 



The manner in which the field was cleared of the 

 pest is analogous to the practice of " trapping" wire- 

 worms. Pieces of potato, mangel, carrot, or other 

 vegetable, are placed in the soil in convenient places 

 for them to be taken out from time to time. If there 

 is no crop on the land they speedily collect to these 

 traps, and may be destroyed. The Julus worms may 

 be collected from traps laid on the surface. Decaying 

 vegetable or animal matter is a great attraction to 

 these, and vast quantities may be caught under small 

 heaps. In gardens small quantities of night-soil 

 buried a little below the surface are very attractive to 

 the worms, and if taken out and burnt, after being 

 left in the ground a few days, a great number of 

 worms will be destroyed with it. 



An unhealthy condition of the soil, from whatever 

 cause it may arise, conduces to the increase of wire- 

 worms and Julus worms. Want of proper drainage, 

 giving rise to sourness in the land, is one of the most 

 frequent causes of attacks. Personal experience has 

 proved that land so infested with the worms as to 

 render it unprofitable to grow potatoes on account of 

 the injury done to the tubers may be cleared by 

 drainage. One of the best fields we have at the 

 present time affords an instance of this. Sourness of 

 the soil, if due to want of lime, should be remedied at 



