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Observations on the various Insects 
A summer -fallow and hurning the rubbish recommended after 
clover and gfrasses ; it kills the eggs and starves the Wirevvorms. 
Soot and lime will kill them. 
FalloiDs must be kept very clean from couch and other grasses 
and weeds. 
Nothing more dangerous than to leave strips and patches of 
grass or lays in ploughed fields. 
Waste and wood lands harbour Wireworms. 
Two civps in succession stock the land with them, especially 
potatoes. 
Two inches of the turf taken off pasture-land by a breast-plough 
an excellent process to secure the succeeding crop : shallow 
ploughing is supposed to kill the roots. 
Feeding land close with slieep will prevent the eggs being laid. 
Folding oxen and sheep in the spring may also keep the beetles 
from coming out of the earth. 
Harrowing and hard-rolling in March and April strongly re- 
commended. 
Top-dressings of lime useful before rolling. 
Woad will expel the Wireworms. 
White mustard-seed, equally efficacious ; it is supposed they 
cannot eat the acrid roots. 
Moioing corn considered good for getting rid of the Wireworms 
in Germany. 
Amongst the leaves of siveet gale the Wireworms died in two 
hours ; it is serviceable, therefore, if mixed with maimre. 
They lived four dags in ivater, and drowning them by flooding 
very difficult. 
Rape-cake powdered and sown on a field will preserve the 
wheat-crop. 
Sjnrits of tar and sand mixed with the soil will protect a crop. 
Refuse lime of gas-icoi-ks will banish the Wireworm. 
Chloride of lime -teat er kills them. 
Nitrate of soda will destroy them. 
Salt (m light sandy soils highly efficacious. 
Alcohol will deprive them of life in five minutes, aniS. turpentine 
instantly. 
The best bait in a flower-garden is sliced potato stuck down. 
Pieces (f luniiji, cabbage, beet-root, parsnip, carrot, and apple, 
will also attract liicni. 
Iland-pictiing a most certain remedy. 
Roohs inv.'duable in catching Wireworms, consuming immense 
quantities. 
W(igtiii/s, robins, bhickbiids, thrushes, and many smallbirds, 
will feed upon them. 
