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have a dread of lime, and will not lay their eggs near it, and, 

 as is well known, this moth lays hers just at the surface, the 

 young worms afterwards boring into and down through the 

 stems to the tubers below. But while the worm does a great 

 deal of injury, the growers themselves are responsible for 

 much more every year by not digging their crops in the month 

 of October, which is usually dry. Dug that month, potatoes 

 will keep better than after the vines are killed by frost, and 

 all risk of rotting from the heavy, cold rains of November is 

 avoided. The present crop was almost entirely lost in the 

 ground from rot, caused by the heavy rains of that month. 

 As the method of banking is so well known, if is not neces- 

 sary to allude to it here. 



