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sented the worst appearance were all of the same kind of plant; that ` 
reni as Wilson's Albany Seedling. porate this there were nine other . 
rieties under culture: Barne's moth, Schanck's Excelsior, the — 
ereen Triomphe de Gand, CH Seedling, the Juc Konan aa 
us Early Scarlet, and Brooklyn Scarlet. While the Wils 
cond to none of these as a prolific fruit-bearer, yet it fell bati heil 
in vigorous plant growth. ence, while every kind was more or less af- 
e 
tiguous to those of the other varieties. While all suffered more or less, 
the chief injury befell the Wilson’s, of which not less than two acres were 
irretrievably ruined. ? 
examination turned up the depredator, who was none other than . 
the larva of the Goldsmith Beetle, now engaged in the first one of its - 
allotted three summer campaigns of mischief. 'These grubs were from — 
the — deposited in June, in the well tilled and clean soil, which, I have 
sai 
captured. The black grub of the spring, which is such a pest, attacking 
almost indiscriminately the early tender plants, inflicts its injuries chiefly 
in the night, the exception being that of dull and cloudy days. The night’s 
mischief done it descends into concealment at early dawn. Knowing this 1 
the wise farmer is in search of it at an early hour, ere the warmth of the 
presence. It is my belief that this devastation might have been spared 
by an outlay of from $20 to $30 for labor, of which, under proper direction, 
much could have been done by children. Therein would have been saved 
a strawberry — - the ensuing summer, paa scarcely less than $2500 
with all their mischief, had not more than a third of their ultimate size; 
hence their real ravenousness is yet to come. Besides what a prospect 
of increase of numbers, should even a moderate share of them reach 

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