158 ' THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Marcu 8, 1856. 
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ferred to pes aiya 3 in agricultural mechanism : | Arts have established a new claitn on the confidence! been so crushed that the latter reached mein a dead 
and Mr. Hunson, of Castleacre, alluded to some of and goodwill of farmers by "thie new Aani of state, so spa I shall wer ha nable to follow: their tains, 
the more AG steps in the prog f agricul | formations, ascertai ‘the precise species of fly 
tural practice. We shall report these addresses | which ia the pa parent of these destructive larvee. There 
fully next week. With one exception they were| In common with our A ser ignored is no questi cy <i i pr the offspring of 
for the most part mere developments of points to | we kia receive many letters on the ravages minute two-winged flies elosely allie n the very inju- 
whi hich Mr. Hoskyn s had 1 previously alluded in his of a ene We hake in some localities ha has stacked pies mei a 
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present. below al ‘hat the eg igs ip of Se history 
Mr. R did hab: can be of to the throw up an Pt ln of side shoots, which. some- 
advanced on the s addin of as Sn i nate sch sere! nr konna considerable ines has times even more than compensate the damage done 
and for the credit of ine-makers he con-| been excited, it may be well to mention that by attacks of the fiy. ei in the cases now before 
tended that the couttat between the exhibitions of the evidence which has reached us does not u r i 
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‘of thet th on this subject. Those whose memory can retain over Mr. Curtis’ admirable series of articles on in- 
it is clear that ine ines in asserting | the hity of a dozen yepe vana know well jurious insects in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural 
ORAA traly, did not take tative of thel that ason never passes in which reports of in- Society, there is one species of minute fly of which that 
crs the paper he was criticising ; it was not tenor pa localities do not ye a sonera] ma a in io mi p 
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iscussion. ‘The former might have reached per- | vate. Present injury is osereed—and the power of ing e D e t os niieking JAR 
ection, while the latter might be miserably low. | plants to recover is at the best but recollecte FÈ it | Wheat plants in the middle of June, the fly appearing 
Agricultural mechanics might boast a list of perfect | more frequently is EAA and compliant arising | in the early part of the following month. It is im 
a aa machines, and if.so, then if any of fin places take the form of a general lam n, | sible without rearing the insect to determine whether 
. Hosxyns’ “ farme: TS frie nds ' bi ‘should succeed i in pon n impre ession arises eas painens nts g tl heat are specifically identical 
their distrit fi | with those described by Mr. Curtis ; the period of the 
ld A general remark of this kind, eas er true in | year when they were observed being so different m 
tural progress Pop Ta inte. ae ae ve with | a course ef years, ay o! d elinaa 1 of application possibly indicate a dis tinct species, aithough it may n 
si TSE eae Apiicuarat Society | to any particular in "a is, Poey locality |° of a second brood of the Oscinis Shlok had "beak 
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ave induced the invention of any new machine or | have made it had we not received letters from that d coe win, ies i 
‘he invention of Crossxux’s clod-crusher may | very locality Naia m to show that the most April or May, as a in all probability be the ¢ ee with 
have dated previously to the establishment of the | h of F the’ injury complained of. aor iene which are now engaged in the 
A iety, yet the great services for The aha: ia is a pastage from one of them Wheat plants, geod soaroely sia “that, P shal be be 
which clay land farmers have to thank it are as} “In marks on the corn trade in your nr last bikie obliged for specimens of the plants and in 
ly referrible to the influence of that Society, as | week’s pa e you allude to the bad appearance of | sent alive, so that I may pursue y thie economy mee 
f the whole history of the neo ie me were in-| the Wheat on the light lands in Lincolnshire, your | clear up the doubt which exists as to the Signs 
cluded nee a lifetime of that third of Mr. Hos - | remarks being founded upon a letter published ia species of fly. As the maggots do not ap Aai 
Kyn’s “ farmers’ friends.” ere is ther paper from Mr. Marsuaut, of Riseholme, | Pee E full grown the question 
sep papel brought out ‘ek Mr. Hosryss i = the | near Lincoln. I think this statement is cleat |t P cs tops most adrisnblo hat = ten to prevent the 
till for to convey an erroneous impre: of the appear- fart n pone oub wr when or ave Aap eti 
nden R ight Ta til yira have paid th mir fal de inc they will 
of what is alre: ny known and rikin b he few at the present mom r. MARSHALLS a i nan + rwvands 
as distinguished from what we be due oe basiti |» as to the a destruction of tie Wheat plant on poh i fe oy ad otri jal till anter 
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additions to existing power > Tahitia knowledge, | summer-e edly correct; but bar ie 8 To betas the oun iene pirea p my 
and the implements now annually collected at | I believe the ¢ agate opinion a ped such destruc: “measures. previously to cleanse it from these 
the exhibitions of the Agricultural Society may be | ti igp ie s to a much less extent this year than u ; rep 
fairly quoted, just as the ledger of every agricul- appearance of the Whea eat, in this district at | e e ng and turning up the soil would oe 
tural machinist in the country may be quoted, in bol is certainly good in comparison with other enable ny ks ie, other birds i to Spoken oy a great 
proof of that enormous extension of ajetet | years, not excepting Mr. MARSHALL'S, which I see | number o! at I wo ja | stage where the 
which the past years have witnessed in| nearly every week. There is an extra breadth of peT t the ace of the ground 
by button m employment of efficient Whe Ag wn in this neig hbourhood, a much greater shouid be burnt, tise ai ot aani 
agricultural machine portion than usual of the Turnip land that w: od e fe dea hs Bie the ail Bai 
Perhaps yi better 1 illustration of a ye me of fared u up to Christmas being sown with Wheat.” Sis eerie N he A O he poe 
this an is afforded | a aasia _ Mr. ean an s repo lp E e 
SOME’S own pame om his riicht à ro! ondent, Charles | cal Society on 3d inst., a communication was receive 
gir be to him,” he exclaim ed, bs S ei Fr Fanart Blu na. Haih! near St. Ives, HHuntingionshiro, from Mr. „Botting, of Poynings, Hustper! i Sussex 
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te the art of land drainage We quote his | extensive injury to which the young Wheat t plants. in | to be committing very great destruction in the Wheat 
words from memory, and ma may n not qite them gnawing it off a short distane 
literally ; but the “impression he conveyed was | two or “three aie from which the following are below the surface oe the ground ; the land van th 
that : extracts :— nsec ts wer re mo ost nu umerous ha d been Clover an R, 
hi E we ‘i tegen pe lou ugh — ka exception to | “ I observe path ip the Gardeners’ Chronicle and the Mark |i bes 
is general assertion that rer Boge agricultural | zepress some captain of the young Wheat plant in 4 E th Wh p id 
machines date mu ch earlier than Mr. Hosxyns had | localities. The ¢ cause of the lone of the plant is also stated not | acres o "the young eat plant were comple y 
re a to Le Hes ascertained. Ihave a field of ge the plant of | nt lk by ben Mr. Bot sigh ban = a 
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1 years since e engraving, careful examination I find a small maggot in sae centre of the ver b d | bs 
stem which cuts off the main shoot of the Wheat plant, and is, ty A ex tent ia minute si ry coloured a 
which we here sity was published in these | Fink. Cleatly ad immuigdiate oaiit of tho évil. DTT with shining black rsely wrinkled 
“As ae se i i bodies and destitute of ‘oat whi 4 are at once ve. recog- 
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za Toà aa ary a meaning, The maggo ite body mall ay aan as we larvæ A of some species of Tipula ped 
the head. Much of the plant has been quite destroyed in | addy lon . The specime: reely mo: 
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iene | before we heard of Mr. af 
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with this subject—and to Mr. | every stem seemed to contain them ; $i hoe iy eat t y| are not t d. It seems not pte a 
Savr, of Garstang not to Me For i ont In my instance these e maggots are confined to Wheat atter | Pit ne to Tipula maculosa or a_ closely 
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any part of that field for the purpose of dragging such 
a mole plough as is drawn lenses, is no new thing. 
And yet ith Mr, R “all honour be 
to Mr. e he aia for we, more gg Ens: than he, 
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application o r to a draini ing machine 
quite as mu to the’ eiitiances: be they the energy 
of individuals ¢ or the e of societies which 
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genius to which existing knowledge may be due. 
Itis pain t that perfect modela may exist either in 
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exar poso p5 ; achines, which are useless as 
agricultural progress until their exampl 
shall be generally followed and in operation ; and 
Mr. esa 4 right in describing the wonderful pater pearl fain eo 
extension of good <gricultural machin 
Best ‘lwstration a“ Larin ofthe i Sa 3e the v saki there is not the least doubt, both fi an examination the earth dea Y “upon 2 aie ‘ures of roots or upon 
farming during the period he referred to, g of t these specimens as well as of others which have been young fresh shoots as in the instance before us, and 
robably it is ies owing to the groun 
os np: that the paper was listened to with | that the maggots e true cause aks the evil i in ques- having ng een well cleared of nia E: of the last year’s 
great as large a number as the theatre of | tion. Umar tunae it herkies ns, that fi crop, the pai arent fly bas ha d the instinct to 
the institution her: hold, and that the Society of | forwarded in post letter, the plants and insects h di I a 
