212 POTAIOES. 



tubers. For a number of years past the English 

 wire-worm has seriously injured the Potatoes in New 

 Jersey. The grub feeds upon the young tubers, dis- 



figuring them so much as to make them imsalable. 

 The grub of the Elaters, tliat injures the Potato, is 

 long and slender, having a hard, smooth skin, of a 



