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and, several years afterwards, told me that the plan had proved 
most effectual, and that he had enjoyed an immunity from his 
former troubles. 
In conclusion, I would observe that if the breeding of cart- 
horses has been neglected, or has not been carried on as exten- 
sively as it might have been in the past, the pursuit is not 
likely to suffer from unconcern in the future. The greater in- 
terest manifested at the present time, as indicated by the rapid 
growth of, and wide-spread interest felt in, the English Shire- 
Horse Society, and in the sister-society across the Border — the 
Clydesdale — are unmistakable signs of the times. The large 
number of valuable cart-horses exhibited at the Shows of the 
Royal Agricultural and other Societies, the magnificent displays 
at the Agricultural Hall and at Glasgow in the spring, are evi- 
dence that the breeding of high-class cart-horses has been taken 
up with greater spirit than at any former period. The large 
demand for first-class stallions for the United States, our 
Australasian Colonies, and other countries, is imparting a con- 
siderable stimulus to the present race of breeders ; and as pedi- 
gree is held in high estimation, indeed is insisted upon by 
botli Australian and American buyers, the Stud Book of the 
English Shire-Horse Society was not started a moment too soon. 
IX. Reports of the Honorary Consulting Entomologist. By 
Eleanor A. Ormeeod, F.R. Met. Soc, Dunster Lodge, 
Isleworth, near London. 
November 1883. 
I BEG to report that during the last year I have received a very 
large number of inquiries regarding insect attacks and methods 
of prevention, showing that insect attacks have been very pre- 
valent, especially those of the maggots of various kinds of flies, 
as daddy longlegs, beet- and mangold-fly, cabbage-root fly, and 
parsnip and celery-leaf maggots. 
The daddy longlegs have been reported from Caithness down 
to Brighton, and as injurious to many of the common crops, but 
especially to corn after clover. 
Thorough cultivation, which clears the ground of the clods 
of roots under which the grubs may be found swarming in such 
localities, and which gives a healthy growth past attack, has been 
found serviceable. Also when the grubs have been present, a 
fertiliser, such as a dressing of artificial manure, or a mixture 
of guano and salt, or guano and salt with kainite and super- 
phosphate, has proved perfectly successful in checking attack, and 
returning a crop without further loss than the outlay on the manure. 
