118  Report  on  Wireworm. 
was  applied,  and  at  harvest  this  part  was  quite  as  good  as  the  rest  of  the 
field. 
“ R.  Cooke,  Detling,  Maidstone 
“The  only  manure  used  as  a top-dressing  is  soot,  and  this  is  an  excellent 
remedy  against  wireworm  and  a valuable  manure. 
“ H.  Hayward,  Blakemere,  Hereford.” 
“ We  suffer  hut  little  from  the  ravages  of  wireworm  in  this  district  ...  its 
effects  are  chiefly  observable  where  the  soil  is  somewhat  poor  and  too  open  and 
porous.  It  is  considered  it  can  be  best  kept  under  by  dressing  with  lime, 
soot,  and  salt,  and  severe  rolling. 
“ Kev.  G.  T.  Blomfield,  Norton,  llminster.” 
“ Turnips  sown  May  25  were  ready  for  thinning  June  20 ; but  on  June  22 
so  many  of  the  plants  were  found  to  be  dying  from  attack  of  wireworm,  that 
we  did  not  thin  until  eight  days  later,  to  allow  them  to  get  stronger.  Then 
I believe  an  eighth  part  of  the  plants  were  destroyed,  but  as  they  had  been 
sown  very  thick  there  were  plenty  of  plants  left,  and,  being  fine  growing 
weather  at  the  time,  they  began  to  do  well. 
“ As  a stimulus  a part  was  sown  with  nitrate  of  soda,  2 cwt.  per  acre ; 
another  part  with  common  salt,  4 cwt.  per  acre  ; and  another  with  dissolved 
bones  and  guano,  3 cwt.  per  acre,  or  thereabouts.  It  was  plain  that  the 
nitrate  of  soda  answered  best,  and  the  whole  was  re-sown  with  it.  Now  the 
crop  is  a pretty  fair  one,  but  I believe  that  if  nothing  had  been  done,  it  would 
have  been  lost. 
“ E.  Renton,  Earlston , N.B. ” 
Observations  regarding  Wireworms  being  attracted  by 
Farmyard-Manure. 
“ Some  farmers  consider  that  spring  crops  sown  on  land  that  has  been 
dressed  with  farmyard  manure  are  more  infested  with  wireworm  than  those 
sown  on  laud  dressed  with  artificial  manures.  I think  artificial  manures  are 
of  great  use,  as  on  every  account  it  is  good  to  force  on  the  plant  at  the  time 
the'  insect  is  at  its  work.  In  this  part  of  the  country  ferns  are  used  in  great 
quantity  by  most  farmers  for  bedding  purposes ; but  in  one  locality  it  is  con- 
sidered that  the  wireworm  occurs  in  such  numbers  in  manure  made  from  ferns 
that  the  farmer  will  not  allow  a load  of  these  to  be  brought  into  his  yard,  and 
I have  seen  potatoes  planted  in  manure  made  chiefly  from  ferns  very  badly 
infested  by  wireworm. 
“ Thos.  Jokes,  Penpont  Farm,  Brecon.” 
“ I have  noticed  in  former  years  that  portions  of  land  which  have  been 
treated  with  farmyard  manure  have  been  seriously  attacked  by  wireworm, 
while  adjoining  portions  covered  with  ashes,  road-scrapings,  &c.,  have  at  the 
same  time  been  entirely  free  from  them. 
“ L.  P.  Williams,  Penberry,  St.  David’s.” 
“ I think  heavy  dressing  with  farmyard-manure  helps  to  encourage  wire- 
worm. 
“ J.  Prince,  Foston,  Derby.” 
“It  is  a well-known  fact  that  salt  is  an  effective  preventive  of  the  grub  and 
wireworm  in  corn-fields,  and  besides  is  valuable  as  a fertilizer,  and  in 
