w 



DISEASES 



tt 



pear 



Sect.XIV. 3. 6 



r 



. /; ";: -; "6—"- -hat the % never attacks 

 the ram itfelf is fo inconvenient to the flv, as to n.-. 



that the firfl leaves are fo 



It is alfo afle 



dioiis of the Lend 



by Mr. Exeter in the T 



fo 



P 



Society for Arts, Vol.XVI. p. inx, that th 



drills deeper 



th of the plant by 



by broad 

 more moiii 



ft, accelerates th 



puts fort I 



to 



h 



foou 



d efcapes the depredations of the fl 



er 



\ 



He fpeaks highly of the ufe of the drill, advifes th 



1 



f a pound of feed 



foot difran 



fes th 



be 



fows them from one inch and a half to two inches deep 



and 



6. The great numbers and varieties of animated 



bein.^s, wh 



live under the foil and deep in winter, defcending beneath Ih'e reach 



of froft, is truly aftonifh 



I once obferved fuch immenfe 



--^ .^...ig. i uijcc uuicrvca lucn i 



bers of fmall wing-fheathed infers, which I believed 



m 



rabaeus folflitialis, or fern-chaffer 



be the fca- 

 they were not one fixth part of 



the fize of aMay.chaffer, fcarab^us melolontha, though much of the 

 fame form and colour; which arofe out of the ground near the cold 

 bath at Lichfield, that I gueffed, that one or two emerged from everv 

 fquare uich of many acres of land. ^ • ^ 



The grubs or maggots, from which thefe wing^fheathed f]ies arofe 



1 fufpea in fome feafons and lltuations favourable to their nrodn.! 



y deflrudive to the wheat in fpring, or 

 lummer, devouring the flem near the furface'of 



he earl 



pa 



of 



joint, which 



f 



till 



ground at the 



\ 



ed, on fome 



fy deflroyed th 



falls down or withers, hy which many 



97, and that, I was info 



ds, which had been previouOy well limed 



iVIr. Tull in his hufbandry, fpeaking of 

 deeper than an inch, flnce the thread c 



t, advifes n 

 dex, which 



to fow 



be then not fo readily found by worms in th 



he upper or coronal root, he b 



e(£ls 



inches long might be, both on account of the greater length of'th 



9 



iD 



latter, 



