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does the mischief in the spring is not hatched in the fall, or at 
least is not fully developed. It comes out in the spring, lays a 
new crop of eggs on the leaves of the growing plants, and the in¬ 
sects which hatch from these eggs are those which do the real in¬ 
jury to the wheat. If the time can be ascertained when the eggs 
are deposited on the leaves, then is the time to sow lime. I do 
not know that it will prevent the eggs from hatching. My observa¬ 
tion of the work done by the fly has taught me one lesson: it is, 
that no wheat should be sown except on rich land, where the plants 
will be strong, and therefore able to resist the ravages of the in¬ 
sects.”— Western Farmers' Journal, March 29, 1878. 
It should, however, be borne in mind that late sowing exposes 
the wheat to the attacks of the wheat-midge ( Diplosis tritici) and 
also to the rust, while, also, by late sowing the plants are less ad¬ 
vanced, and less fitted to withstand the rigors of the winter. 
Early sowing as a remedy .—Still, there are some who adhere to 
early sowing as on the whole the best thing to do. We insert the 
following testimony in favor of this procedure: 
“In your paper of December 6, 1877, there are three or four 
articles respecting the Hessian-fly, and they are so different from 
my observation of the wheat insect, as we call it here, that I send 
you a few lines respecting the damage done to wheat here. The 
last harvest was very much injured, in some localities in this State. 
In the west part of Calhoun county, on sandy land, some pieces 
were not harvested, and others yielded from five to ten bushels per 
acre. In this part of Jackson county, wheat did not suffer so much; 
some fields, on bur-oak soil, yielded as high as thirty-five bushels 
per acre, of the Clawson variety. 
“The fly commences as soon as the wheat is up an inch high. 
I placed in a glass fruit-jar some stools of wheat, which were sown 
on the 81st of August, and about the 15th of October the fly hatched 
out of the brown eggs which were in the wheat in large numbers, 
and was a lively little black fellow about one-eighth of an inch long. 
Now, if the eggs were deposited about the 8th of September, as that 
is as soon as the wheat would be large enough for them, it would 
give them about thirty-seven days to mature so as to fly again,— 
though they might hatch a little sooner or later, in the open field. 
I cannot say as to that, having no certain means of knowing. Now, 
if we wait till the 1st of October to seed, we will be just in time 
for the first brood that comes out in the fall to deposit their eggs 
in the late sowing, which was the case hereabouts. Fields sown 
on the 25th of September, 1876, suffered more than that sowed on 
the 25th of August, the same year, not three miles apart; the latter 
giving a good crop and the former a very light one. 
“Now, my observation as well as practice is, that the earliest 
seeding is the best every time. There are a few farmers in the 
country who invariably sow early—say as early as the 25th of 
August—and they hardly ever fail of a good crop. There may be a 
difference in varieties in resisting the ravages of the fly, and I pre¬ 
sume there is. The Tappahannock suffered very much more than 
the Clawson in adjoining fields, on the same farms, and sowed about 
the same time. I venture the suggestion that we all sow our wheat 
earlier—say on the 20th of August, or soon after—as farmers used 
