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backs. When full grown, they are of the thick- 

 ness of a goose-quill, ar.d about an inch and a 

 quarter long. They hide in the soil by day, and 

 commit their depredations by night. Tlfey eat 

 off young plants above ground, and frequently en- 

 deavour to draw them under. It is said that ma- 

 nuring the ground with salt will drive them from 

 it, and that lime and ashes will also have nearly 

 a similar effect. 



Red fVo}ins 



These are slender, about an inch long, with a 

 hard coat, and pointed head. They eat off wheat 

 barley, and oats above the crown of the roots; and 

 ihey also eat through turnips, potatoes, &c. No 

 positive remedy is known, unless it be manuring 

 with the manures before mentioned, which are of- 

 fensive :d al. insects. Summer-fallowings are al- 

 so recommended, a3 depriving them of their re- 

 quisite food. 



Palmer Worms. 



About half an inch in length, with many legs, 

 and very nimble. They give to apple-trees the 

 same appearance that the Cankerworm does. 



]Mr. Dean says, that great numbers of them ap- 

 peared, in the year 1791, in Cumberland Massa- 

 chusetts, and ate off all the leaves of the trees, ex- 

 cept the membraneous parts; but that next year 

 they disappeared. They let themselves down 

 from the trees by threads, similar to the Spider. 



No remedy known. 



Timber^vorms 

 The smaller kind merely eat into the sap of 



