The Daddy-Long-Legs 
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ground, while another drives the share in 
very deeply. The latter does the ground 
most good, obviously, by turning up fresh 
soil, by giving a greater depth of soil, 
and by turning well under anything in 
the nature of weeds which may be growing 
upon the surface. He, too, does more 
destruction of the young daddy-long-legs’ 
hopefuls. He can not only destroy eggs, 
but he gives the birds a better chance 
with the grubs, and should frost set in soon 
after the deep furrow has been worked, it 
can, of course, get down to a much greater 
depth and work much more effectually than 
if the ground had either not been ploughed 
or only badly ploughed. Deep ploughing 
is a magnificent antidote to leather-jackets. 
There are a number of dressings for the 
land which all in their turn are good — 
some more, some less. Lime, especially 
some kinds of gas lime, nitrate of soda, soot, 
common salt, etc. Now as scientific 
farming grows in fashion, so does the 
number of dressings used grow apace, 
and these mentioned as antidotes to grubs 
are all good for the land in their different 
ways. Take the case of lime. What a 
