Hide Salt and Wireworms. 



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which took place between us when I was in Lancashire last 

 week upon the subject of wireworms, I should be very much 

 obliged if you would look through the enclosed leaflet* and tell 

 me whether any suggestions occur to you respecting it. Your 

 own practical experience would be of value to us. 



"If at any time you thought it would be useful that we should 

 give publicity to the fact that a leaflet on the subject has been 

 prepared and issued, and will be supplied to all to whom it may 

 be useful, we should be very glad to make arrangements 

 accordingly. 



" Yours sincerely, 



{Signed) " T. H. ELLIOTT." 



" Stanley Farm, 



" Bickerstaffe, Ormskirk, 



k - March 5th, 1904. 

 " Dear Sir Thomas, — Your letter to hand this morning, 

 and with further reference to our conversation with respect to 

 the pest of wireworm, I can speak from experience that hide 

 salt applied to land in the autumn before being ploughed, 

 especially ley land, is an efficient remedy for wireworm. The 

 result may not prove entirely satisfactory from the first applica- 

 tion, and in such cases a repetition of the dressing should be 

 made annually, until the pest is got rid of. The dressing should 

 not exceed 3 cwt. per statute acre. No land could have been 

 more infested with wireworm than that which I occupy at the 

 present time. Repeated applications of hide salt have been the 

 means of combating the pest, and to-day the farm is practically 

 free from wireworm. As to the paragraph in the leaflet with 

 regard to seaweed being a preventive, I might point out that 

 the latter contains a large percentage of salt, and therefore 

 proves that salt is a remedy for the destruction of the wireworm. 

 Particular attention must be drawn to the fact that hide salt, 

 and not common salt, is recommended. I think that if a 

 paragraph could be embodied in the present leaflet, and 

 circulated, it would be a wise and beneficial arrangement. 

 " I remain, etc., 



{Signed) " S. T. ROSBOTHAM.' 



*Leaflet No. 10. Wireworms. 



