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All measures to secure good hearty growth, such as 

 may carry the moderately injured plants through attack, 

 are very desirable. 



So is rotation of crop, as the fly only attacks certain 

 cereals specified. 



Strong- stemmed corn is less liable to attack than 

 kinds of which the outside is more readily injured by 

 the maggots. 



The above methods of treatment mitigate the violence 

 of the attack, and if in the coming season we find this 

 injury, which has now for over a hundred years caused 

 from time to time such devastating loss in America, has 

 settled down here, we cannot do better than study in full 

 detail the reports of observation and agricultural treat- 

 ment which have been found to mitigate the evil. 



But meanwhile it is most urgently to be considered, 

 WHEEE DID THE ATTACK COME FROM ? As in the hundred 

 years and more that it has been in America, and about 

 half that time that it has been known in Europe, we 

 have no records of its presence as a crop-pest ; and 

 plenty of records of it not being present it is reasonable 

 to suppose that there has been some special circumstance 

 which has not occurred before to which we owe its 

 presence. To find what this is would be to find how to 

 free ourselves from a most dangerous crop-pest, and if 

 all concerned would examine into the various ways in 

 which it can have been conveyed on the land, and will 

 continue this watch and report on it in the coming 

 season, we may hope to learn the source of the evil. 



I will venture to add that I shall have pleasure in 

 receiving any communication on the subject, or samples 

 of infested grain, and also samples of winter wheat or 

 barley considered to be infested, and in giving all infor- 

 mation that lies in my power on the subject. 



ELEANOE A. OEMEEOD, F. E. Met. Soc., 



Consulting Entomologist of the Royal Agr. Soc. of England. 



DUNSTEE LODGE, NEAR ISLEWORTH. 



