Report  on  Wireworm. 
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f Man. 
Observations 
concerning  Rooks. 
Remedies  used. 
Amount  of  Loss 
to  Observer,  or  in 
his  Neighbourhood. 
Injury  more  or 
Less  than  in 
previous  Years? 
Remarks. 
• • •• 
Have  found 
soot  and  gas 
lime  the  best 
remedy. 
In  the  neighbour- 
hood wheat 
suffered  sown 
on  clay  land 
which  had 
lain  in  grass. 
• • • • 
Rooks  on  the 
crops  at  sow- 
ing time. 
No  remedy  tried 
Very  slight  in- 
jury in  neigh- 
bourhood. 
Less 
Some  years 
rooks  do  great 
injury  by  pul- 
ling Turnips 
to  get  at  Wire- 
worm. 
Guano  sown  on 
a wet  day 
been  found 
effectual  in 
attack  on 
light  hill  soil. 
Oats  after  pas- 
ture crop 
chiefly  in- 
jured in  the 
neighbour- 
hood. 
Less 
Observed  on 
Have  tried  gas- 
Turnips  and 
Fewer  com- 
Oats  newly 
lime  with  very 
Lea  Oats  suf- 
plaints  of 
sown,  and 
Turnips  fresh 
thinned. 
satisfactory 
results. 
fered  much. 
Wireworm  this 
year  than 
usual. 
.. 
..  .. 
No  attack 
known  of. 
..  .. 
Would  have 
Have  tried  salt 
On  B’corteen 
Less  than  last 
There  was  a previous 
been  about, 
and  tobacco 
about  half  Tur- 
year  when 
green-crop  to  half  the 
but  kept  them 
by  way  of  ex- 
nips,  I have 
about  6 tons 
Wireworm  loss 
Oats,  the  rest  on  land 
away  all  the 
periment,  and 
was  half  the 
broken  for  the  first 
time. 
found  the 
latter  kill.the 
worm. 
Turnips  where 
should  be  15. 
crop. 
time;  the  former  was 
the  worst  attacked. 
Rooks  observed 
Do  not  know  of 
Two  acres  of 
Injury  rather 
I think  that  as  farmers 
on  neighbour- 
any  remedy. 
Swedes  almost 
greater  this 
now  leave  their  land 
ing  land  just 
after  Swedes 
were  thinned. 
destroyed. 
year. 
longer  in  grass,  this 
may  account  for  in- 
creased destruction  by 
Wireworm.  They  have 
time  to  increase  as 
birds  do  not  readily  get 
at  them. 
Have  tried  salt 
and  nitrate  of 
soda,  but  not 
been  success- 
ful. 
Do  not  know  of 
loss  in  the 
neighbour- 
hood. 
Rooks  on  crop 
Salt  and  soot 
About  25Z.  to 
Greater  than 
when  quite 
young. 
with  varying 
success. 
self. 
usual. 
Some  years  are 
Salt  and  rolling 
Very  much  less 
this  year. 
Believe  the  worms  work 
very  mischie- 
vous, they  come 
just  after  sing- 
ling and  go 
right  where  the 
worm  is. 
whilst  crop  is 
in  bruit.  Lime 
sown  before 
ploughing. 
most  in  dry  weather. 
Have  seen  gas-lime 
used  with  good  effects, 
not  a Wireworm  after  it. 
