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Report  on  Wireworm. 
Table  II. — Isle 
Parish  of 
Observer. 
Crop  Injured  and 
Nature  of  Crop 
preceding. 
Nature  of  Soil. 
Manure  and 
Preparation  of 
Land. 
Date  of  Sowing 
and  Weather  at 
Time. 
Jurby 
Carrots  and  Bar- 
Sandy  soil  on 
Farmyard  ma- 
Carrots  and  Po- 
I. 
ley.  Potatoes 
badly  injured. 
gravel. 
nure  and  dis- 
solved bones. 
No  lime. 
tatoes  planted 
about  middle 
of  April. 
Weather  fine, 
soil  moist. 
II. 
None  at  Thie 
Vane.  Turnips 
after  Oats  on 
old  Lea  at 
B’Managh 
badly  attacked. 
Sandy  and  gra- 
velly; higher 
and  most  gra- 
velly, least 
attacked. 
Dublin  and 
Wicklow  pa- 
tent manure. 
Hollow  with 
soil  more 
earthy  most 
attacked. 
Injured  crop 
end  of  May. 
Weather  dry, 
but  soil  nice 
and  moist. 
III. 
No  injury  .. 
Light  land  on 
gravel. 
Farmyard  and 
patent.  No 
Lime.  Wire- 
worm  are 
worst  in  light 
turfy  soil. 
Lea  Wheat, 
Dee. ; Barley, 
March ; Oats, 
April ; green 
crops  begin- 
ning of  June. 
Ballaugh 
Small  amount  of 
Black  sand  in 
Lime,  manure, 
and  dissolved 
bones.  Crops 
on  dung  un- 
harmed. 
Seed  sown  in 
I. 
injury  to  Tur- 
nips only. 
the  Curragh. 
May  and 
June.  Wea- 
ther fine. 
II. 
About  J Wheat 
and  ! Turnips 
injured.  Wheat 
after  Green- 
crops.  Turnips 
after  Oats. 
Stiff  Loam 
nearly  Marl. 
Lime  not  been 
used  for  many 
years. 
Wheat,  1st  week 
Jan. ; Tur- 
nips, end  of 
May,  injured 
and  uninjured 
same  time ; 
both  in  fine 
mild  weather. 
III. 
No  injury  .. 
Wireworm  cuts 
worst  in  turfy 
soil.  Wheat 
suffers  most 
in  this  neigh- 
bourhood. 
IV. 
No  injury  .. 
• • • • 
* * * * 
V.* 
Wheat  crop  out  of 
Lea  suffered. 
Soil  inclining  to 
gravelly. 
Land  limed  the 
year  before. 
Wheat  about 
middle  of  De- 
cember. 
Note. — Of  a 7 acre  field  observed,  of  which  3 acres  were  treated  with  farm-manure 
portion  was  free  from  wireworr 
