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Observations on the various Insects 
in South Wilts and some parts of the northern division, and to the 
Cots wolds and the cross of these two breeds in the other parts. 
The breed of pigs is also totally different, and the change has no 
doubt been beneficial, the pigs now kept being generally of a 
superior description. In no branch of the agriculture of this 
county is inaprovenient more apparent than in the management of 
sheep. As before stated, regular successions of green food are 
now grown, and often three or four kinds are provided dui'ing the 
summer, such as clover, sainfoin, vetches, rape, early turnips, &c., 
in addition to the grass upon the downs and sheep-walks, in order 
that they may often have a change of food ; good supplies ol tur- 
nips and swedes are given in addition to hay, which was formerly 
the only winter-food. Hay is now nearly everywhere cut into 
chaff, and sent to the fields in bags, or covered waggons made for 
that purpose — a circumstance which would have rather astonished 
a farmer of Ihll. Swedes are likewise preserved, or rye, or 
winter-barley, or some other green food, is provided for them 
while feeding in the water-meadows, which M as thought quite un- 
necessary some years since. The ewe lambs were formerly sent 
into the grass districts to be wintered ; now provision is made for 
them on the farm, except when the turnip or hay crop fails, and 
then a little corn or cake is often given, in order to keep them at 
home. There is also great improvement in the management of 
cattle, particularly where young stock are reared ; they are much 
better led and lodged in the winter. Tlie latter remark applies 
to cattle generally, as they are not kept in the fields nearly so 
much as formerly, sheds being provided for them. 
XI. — Observations on t/ic Natural History and Economy of the 
Insects called Wireworms, a,ffecting the Turnips, Coi-n-crops,Sfc.; 
also of their j)arents the Elaters or Beatles, called Ship-jachs, 
Click-beetles, ^r. Ry John Curtis, F.L.S., Corresponding 
Member of the Imperial and Royal GeorgofiU Society of 
Florence, &c. 
Paper VI. 
It is ail inconfrovertible nxlom — " Tlmt tlie profit we di-rlve I'lom the works of creation 
will be in proportion to the accuracy of our knowledge of tliem and their properties." — 
Kirhy and Spence's Int. to Ent. 
As Wireworms not only injure the turnip but various other crops, 
I shall terminate my account of the insects affecting that plant by 
detailing the history of the animals thus designated, making them 
the transition to the corn-crops, which are subject to the attacks 
of other insects, whose economy will be found equally interesting 
and important to the agriculturist. 
