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Harvesting Mistakes. 
worms, especially in the blanched spots or swellings produced upon the 
rootlets by the female worms. Pull up promptly all roots within a 
radius of 100 yards of the infested spots and burn them. Do not 
sow either mangel, beetroot, or cereals upon this land, but put it 
through a season’s cropping with ‘ trap-plants.’ Do not put on 
the land any plants, refuse matter, or composts suspected to be in- 
fested with eelworm ; though, if such a course be unavoidable, treat 
all such material first with quicklime.” 
It is desirable to add that the females of Heterodera Schachtii, 
instead of possessing the usual worm-like form of the Anguillulidce, 
are lemon-shaped. They grow to a length of about one-third of an 
inch, and produce intenially some 350 eggs. A few of the latter, with 
some of the gelatinous substance of the egg-sac, are extruded, but 
the greater number remain within the body of the female, and there 
develop into larvre. Ultimately the entire body of the mother is 
modified, as it were, into a sac filled with eel-shaped larvae, which 
gradually escape. The free larva bores into the root-fibril of a 
mangel or beet plant, upon which it lives parasitically. The skin of 
the rootlet curves over the nematode, which meanwhile is approxi- 
mating to the adult lemon-shaped outline, at the same time as the 
attacked plant assumes the appearance of eelworm disease. 
AV. Fream. 
HARVESTING MISTAKES. 
The bad weather for harvesting experienced in August and Sept- 
ember last year afforded a severe test for the exercise of in- 
dustry, skill, and ingenuity in the endeavour to make the best of 
circumstances, and to ward off the most serious ills to which the crops 
were exposed. Of course, no amount of toil or skilled endeavour 
could prevent that serious deterioration of quality in both barley 
and wheat which took place owing to the extensive battering down 
of the heaviest crops before they fully ripened, and it must be ad- 
mitted, at the onset, that for some evils there could possibly be no 
other remedy than change of weather. But there was a large pro- 
portion of others which could be grappled with, and were overcome 
to a great extent by far-seeing, persevering, judicious operators ; 
though a great many, on the contrary, folded their hands, some 
declaring that it was “ what pleased God,” and that they would 
await the rolling away of the clouds before attempting to do 
anything, while others, without thought or consideration, pursued 
the regular courses to which they had been mostly accustomed, and 
in no respect endeavoured to adapt action to the exigencies of 
circumstances. 
Details must be entered into ere it will be seen to what an 
extent the indolent, listless, and foolhardy suffered in the late crisis 
more than those who brought intelligence, skill, and foresight to 
