affecting the Turnips, Corn-c7-ops, Sfc. 
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In mild tcinters the Wireworms are found at their roots. 
They do most mischief to the yoiuig tiirnip-planfs. 
Multitudes of various sizes in August gnau ing the young turnip- 
roots, and biting the extremities off. 
Some got into the shell of a snail, and ate up the animal. 
Tliey will feed upon the turnip-leaves ; drawing the remainder 
of the plant afterwards into the earth. 
Gardens suffer exceedingly ; lettuces often fall a sacrifice to the 
Wireworm. 
Elater sputator is only fourteen days in the pupa state. 
The earth should- be scraped away from infested lettuces, the 
worms may then be removed, and the earth returned to the roots. 
Hemlock, fooT s-parsley , &c. to be eradicated, as the Elaters 
resort to the flowers. 
Gardens formed out of a pasture-ground greatly infested by 
Wireworms, and the annuals all destroyed ; they eat into the 
stems of carnations, &c. 
In adding loam and other soils to gardcn-boiders, great care 
should be taken to free them from Wireworms. 
On liglit lands they do most mischief from the beginning of 
March to June. Wheat and white turnips suffered most; rye 
does not escape. 
Barley driiled-in at 3 inches becomes sickly, but does well at 
one inch and a half. 
Wireworms, probably, cannot live so near the surface in a sandy 
soil. 
Lower parts of fields bordering on marshes most infested. 
Rye-grass most dangerous with clovers for encouraging the 
Wireworm. 
Gravelly and sandy soils most infested ; strong loam and clay 
most free from them 
They inhabit every aspect. 
A wet season may not destroy the Wireworms, but it does not 
suit the Elaters, which cannot then deposit their eggs. 
Paring and burning common land, broken up, preserves the 
turnip-crops. 
Wheat sown in dry weather most likely to suffer. 
Turnips when three or four weeks old attacked the most in some 
places; but eating through the tap-root does not kill the plant. 
Crops after clover-lays e.xposed to the sun, if fed off short, suffer 
greatly. 
By constantly disturbing insects, it is probable they may be 
driven from a locality. 
Difference of soil or season may cause the failure of a remedy 
which has succeeded elsewhere. 
