38 Insect Life : Its Why and Wherefore 
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quantity of it is used in wet clay lands. 
One expert, only last year, canvassed a 
district where much of the land is of this 
nature, and advocated to everybody the 
use of lime, until hundreds of tons were 
used, where little or none had been tried 
before. This was in order to benefit the 
land itself and its dependent crops. Yet 
this is the very kind of land in which the 
embryo daddy-long-legs dwells and flour- 
ishes. So that again, as in the case of the 
ploughing, just what is needed to kill 
these off, is the very remedy which is 
needed to counteract certain harmful 
points in the nature of the soil itself, and 
to bring forth from it by methods of 
combination all that is best. 
Yet one other point in the eradication 
of the grub is the proper draining of marshy 
and damp ground. Ask the medical man, 
ask any man with an iota of scientific 
knowledge about the harmful result of 
boggy places, especially during summer 
time, and he will tell you that these spots 
are the nurseries of all sorts of evils to which 
the flesh is heir. Ditches, dykes, and 
ponds should all be cleaned out, and damp 
