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all cases, we presume that the field which is the earliest, attracts 
all of the insects in its immediate vicinity, and these finding all 
the accommodations they desire there, have no occasion for going 
elsewhere. For a more extended elucidation of this topic, see the 
American Farmer, vol. ii., p. 167. Two objections have been 
urged against late sowing; the liability of the young plants to 
“ winter-kill,” and of the crop when near maturity to be attacked 
by “the rust.” There is little danger of the first of these casual- 
ties, we suppose, upon porous soils, it being a disaster almost pe- 
culiar to stiff clays, which retain a large amount of moisture at 
their surface. In such soils, therefore, it may be advisable to re- 
sort to the plan employed in some parts of England, namely, sow- 
ing only on a newly turned over sward, the grass roots in which 
serve to bind the soil together in such a manner as to retard its 
“heaving” by the frost. (Fessenden’s Complete Farmer, p. 114.) 
This disaster, moreover, is guarded against in a great degree by 
sowing only upon a very fertile soil, whereby a quick and vigor- 
ous growth is secured, and the young plants are thus enabled to 
acquire sufficient strength of root to withstand the winter’s frosts. 
The same expedient, also, by insuring a rapid growth and an 
early maturity of the crop is the best safeguard against the rust, 
a disaster to which late crops only are ordinarily liable. Upon 
rich land, therefore, scarcely any scruples need be entertained with 
regard to late sowing. If a neighboring field has been already 
sowed, and the season is favorable for its vegetation, it will be 
safe to commit the seed to the ground within a week or two there- 
after, as all the insects in the vicinity, unless they are present in 
immense swarms, will be attracted to and remain in the earlier 
crop. About the last of September is probably as late as it will 
be judicious to defer sowing wheat in this climates and in most 
seasons this will secure it from any serious attack of the fly. Al- 
though when it comes forward, the season for the deposition of 
the eggs of the fly may not in some years be entirely over, it must 
be rare that a number of these sufficiently large to be materially in- 
jurious, will be laid; but should that at any time be the case, other 
remedies still can thereupon be resorted to, to counteract the evil. 
