CULTIVATION OF PLANTS. 95 



No individual probably, has done more to investigate this 

 subject, and find a remedy for the evil, than JAMES WOKTII, 

 Esq., of Newton, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. The Me- 

 moirs of the Pennsylvania Society of Agriculture, for the year 

 1823, contain several communications, giving in detail the re- 

 sults of his indefatigable and valuable researches. 



He recommends a change in the course of crops as the most 

 effectual remedy, viz: break up for wheat, follow with corn, 

 and then oats and grass seed, ploughing and harrowing the 

 stubble immediately after harvest, and a SECOND TIME BE- 

 FORE MAY, by which means great numbers of insects will be 

 destroyed in the pupa state. 



The best remedies seem to consist of a good tilth a rich 

 but not wet soil late sowing- ploughing in the stubble imme- 

 diately after harvest and perhaps feeding off the crop in the 

 spring with sheep. 



There is a case cited in the Memoirs of the Board of Agri- 

 culture of New York, in which two bushels of lime were sown 

 upon an acre of wheat infested bv the fly, while there was a 

 heavy dew upon the ground. Two adjoining acres, same 

 quality of ground, on which wheat, of tin; s;mic kind, was 

 sowed at the same time, were not treated with lime. The re- 

 sult was, that the limed wheat gave a good crop, the other not 

 half of an average crop. 



SAMUEL TALLANT, of Canterbury, New Hampshire, states, 

 that on the first of July, 1838, a few flies, known as the weevil 

 or grain worm, was discovered on his grain. He examined 

 them from day to day, and found that they increased with 

 such rapidity as to threaten obstruction to his crop. He scat 

 tered, by way of experiment, a bushel of slaked lime on about 

 half an acre of the wheat, while it was wet with dew. 



The ensuing morning he vi.sih-d this piece of wheat, and 

 after a careful examination, he found but a solitary fly or worm 

 among it, while in all the other parts of the field, he found the 

 fly had vastly increased in number. lie commenced imme- 

 diately liming the whole field, but his lime falling short, and 

 the case being one admitting of no delay, he had recourse to 

 ashes, which he bountifully applied. The worm or fly dis- 

 appeared immediately, and the field gave a very fair crop of 

 good sound wheat. 



We cannot better conclude our notice of so important an 

 article in agriculture as wheat, than by giving, almost entire, 

 a paper on its cultivation by II. HICKOCK, Esq., read before 

 the State Agricultural Society of New York. 



There are two causes which, when our winters are open, operate injurious- 

 ly on wheat crops. One is, the high and dry winds which prevail in March; 



