Effects of the season of 1816. 159 



in the spring in corn, abounded in such numbers of cut 

 worms, as to destroy the first plantation of com. This 

 effect was not observed to an injurious extent, in lands 

 cultivated the previous summer,* or broke up during the 

 previous fall and winter. 



Some supplemental notes, with the writer's name, will 

 soon be forwarded. 



* This has been repeatedly observed when the culture was 

 good ; so as to leave no grass or weeds for the grub moth to de- 

 posit its eggs on. R. P. 



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 ed anonymous communications, however valuable they 

 may have been ; deeming the w 7 riters alone responsible. 

 The expectation held out in the last paragraph, has in- 

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