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wheats commonly sown, to the purple or blue straw- 

 wheat. Mr. Cox's account of the worm found in the 

 root of stunted wheat, is a proof that worms or insects 

 are the enemies to be subdued. Such vermin abound 

 the most in dunged grounds ; and in the accounts we 

 have of the sedged or stunted wheat, the malady is the 

 most severe, where cow pens for winter feeding have 

 been placed. 



The supposed " cut worm fly," is, most probably, an 

 ichneumon, bred in the grub. Entomological writers 

 aver, that the ichneumon fly, deposits its eggs in cater- 

 pillars, (and the grub is a species of caterpillar,) and thus 

 brings its own progeny into existence, by the destruc- 

 tion of the larvae of other insects. The varieties in co- 

 lour and shape of the ichneumons are numerous ; there 

 being more than four hundred different species. 



R. Peters. 



