Report  on  Wireworm. 
141 
>f  Man. 
Observations 
concerning  Rooks. 
Remedies  used. 
Amount  of  Loss 
to  Observer,  or  in 
his  Neighbourhood. 
Injury  more  or 
less  than  in 
previous  Years  ? 
I 
Rooks  are  sure 
to  appear 
wliere  there 
is  Wireworm, 
but  not  much 
elsewhere. 
..  .. 
Turnips  slightly 
attacked. 
Less.  As  good 
a season  free 
from  cutting 
as  I think  we 
ever  had. 
Rooks  and  Jack- 
daws come 
occasionally. 
Do  1 ittle  if 
any  harm. 
Have  found  soot 
serviceable  in 
garden  culti- 
vation. 
Have  not  heard 
of  loss  in 
neighbour- 
hood. 
Very  much  less. 
Rooks  always 
Sufficient  rol- 
Some  injury  to 
The  best  remedy  I know 
appear  on  the 
ling  is,  I 
turnips, 
of  and  have  tried  is  j 
crop  about  the 
think,  the 
amount  not 
rolling ; but  the  gene- 
same  time  as 
Wireworm  in- 
jury. 
best  remedy. 
known. 
ral  impression  here  is 
that  salt  sown  in  with 
the  seed  or  sometime 
previous  is  very  good.  ! 
Rooks  on  the 
land  within  a 
few  days  after 
thinning. 
None 
No  money  loss 
to  observer, 
very  trifling 
to  neighbours. 
Should  say  less. 
No  injury  to  com  has 
come  under  my  notice. 
When  Wheat  is 
just  in  bruit, 
they  come  for 
the  grain  not 
the  grub. 
None 
Trifling  . . 
Not  more  than 
average. 
“Skerries”  the  worst 
attacked  Potatoes. 
Sometimes  destroyed 
in  the  spring,  but  most 
damaged  in  August. 
Our  crops  have 
many  times 
suffered  in- 
jury from 
Rooks. 
We  hardly  ever 
suffer  from 
Wireworm  in 
this  neigh- 
bourhood. 
This  year  the  rooks  have 
destroyed  most  of  our 
Potatoes,  and  many  a 
year  they  have  de-  ; 
stroyed  acres  of  our  ; 
Turnips. 
Rooks  did  much 
injury  to  tur- 
nips before  I 
had  means  of 
preventing 
them. 
No  damage  of 
any  conse- 
quence, ex- 
cepting to 
turnips  by 
rooks. 
No  injury  to  my  Turnip  11 
crops  by  Wireworm 
within  the  last  forty  ■ 
years. 
Salt 
..  .. 
Very  much  less. 
Rooks  possibly  often  on 
the  look  out  for  Wire- 
worm,  but  have  not 
noticed  the  following  jji 
crop  the  least  affected  f 
even  on  the  spot 
most  attacked  by  Rooks. 
Rooks  are  the 
greatest  pests. 
Even  Turnips 
larger  than 
an  egg  I have 
seen  pulled 
by  them. 
Have  about  150 
acres  under 
white  crop  : 
but  scarcely 
the  8th  of  an 
acre  spoiled. 
