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INJUEIOUS INSECTS AND FUNGI. [March 1895. 



If it is suspected that wireworrms are abundant in land 

 sown with grass seeds, some rape cake, should be sown with 

 the seeds to attract the wire worms until the grasses are 

 established. 



In meadow land infested with wireworms rolling with a very 

 heavy roller is sometimes beneficial. Salt at from 5 to 7 cwts. 

 per acre is sometimes useful, and folding sheep with mangels or 

 swedes carted on to the grass land is a most valuable remedy. 



Rooks, starlings, and plovers are eager devourers of wireworms, 

 and the two last-named birds should be encouraged in every 

 way. It has often been noticed that crops on land near the 

 haunts of plovers, or peewits, as they are generally termed, are 

 rarely injured seriously by wireworms. 



