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that in planting Indian corn upon green-sward, he has always suffered 

 much from the wire-worm ; but vviien he makes his first crop oats, 

 and his second corn, he has entirely escaped the injury from this 

 source. He has found, likewise, opening the corn-hills, and pouring 

 a spoonful of brine at the roots a remedy against their ravages. This 

 would be a tedious process. 



Some of the best farmers in Massachusetts recommend, from their 

 own experience, late spring ploughing, as the great preventive of the 

 depredations of the cut-worm among corn. In the vegetation, which 

 is then turned under, the worms find sufficient feed to divert them 

 from the corn. Other farmers in this matter have recommended 

 ploughing early in the autumn, say in August ; and the grass which 

 has then time to start up among the furrows, supplies the worm, and 

 prevents his attacks upon the corn. But on various accounts, the 

 spring ploughing for this purpose is to be preferred. It seems to be 

 established, that a freshly turned soil is more favorable to vegetation 

 than one that has been longer ploughed ; and the seed should be de- 

 posited as soon as may be after the land is ploughed and prepared. 

 Mr. Keely's experiments in sowing rye, fully detailed in the re- 

 port of Essex county, strongly urge this point. 



7. Grain-Insect — (Cecidomyia Tritici.) — Mr. Brown has 

 proved to his own conviction, the value of the application of newly 

 slacked lime upon his wheat, at the time of flowering against the rav- 

 ages of the grain-insect. " The field had just been visited by the 

 fly, when he gave his wheat a thorough coating of newly and finely 

 slacked lime while the dew was upon it. On a part of the field 

 no lime was put. On the parts limed, their ravages seemed 

 to have been stopped at once ; on the part not limed, the crop was 

 entirely destroyed." Mr. Brown's excellent husbandry gives a value 

 to his authority. 



8, Grain-Worm — (Vibrio Tritici.) — I found in Egremont a 

 worm abounding in the grain in two cases, which none of the farmers 

 had been before acquainted with. It was of a brown color, and about 

 a third of an inch in length ; and when the wheat was threshed, it 

 was found in great quantities among the chafF. The threshing and 

 winnowing the wheat appeared to have thoroughly cleared it of them. 



