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only recourse is to cultivate the land with some other crop until they turn 

 into beetles and fly away. This enemy will receive fuller attention in a 

 later chapter. 



It is said that this pest rarely lays its eggs in plowed land, preferring 

 sod ground, where its larvae will be protected from the birds, and will find 

 plenty of grass roots on which to feed. Nature sees to it that white grubs 

 are taken care of, but our Monarch strawberries need our best skill and 

 help in their unequal fight ; and if "Lachnos " and tribe should turn out in 

 force, Alexander himself would be vanquished. 



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