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are buried ; and carrots similarly thrust into the earth 

 where the wireworm is ravaging, are successful lures. 

 The vermin prefers these, buries itself in them, and 

 may be easily removed. The roots of the white mus- 

 tard also are said to drive the wireworm away from 

 the soil on which it is grown. {Brit, Farm. Mag.) 



Mr. Glenny says, that Mr. May, nurseryman, Tot- 

 tenham, plants the common daisy round his principal 

 beds, finding the wireworm prefer it to the carrot. 

 (Gard. Gazette?) 



And Mr. Oram, Edmonton, says that the double 

 daisy is employed by one of his friends, who, in one 

 summer, from a row of daisies three hundred feet 

 long, has taken 2,000 wireworms. (Gard. Chron.) 



It is not generally known that the mole destroys 

 great numbers of the wireworm, nor that pheasants 

 are very fond of them. Mr. Westwood says, he has 

 heard of instances where the crops of these birds have 

 been found to be filled with wireworms. 



Slices of lettuce are found to be more alluring to 

 the wireworm than even slices of potato or of carrot, 

 and more than one respectable testimony can be ad- 

 duced that if lettuces are grown among dahlias, which 

 they may be, easily, without being seen, the roots of 

 the latter will always remain untouched. Whatever 

 lures are employed these should be examined daily, 

 the wireworms they contain be destroyed, and fresh 

 slices introduced as requisite. 



