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CORN. 
The following observations ivere chiefly sent to me in reply to my 
inquiries as to amount of damage , and also as to varieties of Wheat 
which , though attacked, ivere little injured by presence of the pest: 
On September 24tli Mr. John Milne, of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, 
favoured me with the following reply to my inquiry regarding Wheats 
which were found to “ resist attack” :— 
“ You ask if I can give the names of some of the Wheats that have 
the attack of fly, but yet do not suffer severely. There is now 
no Wheat grown in Aberdeenshire. In Morayshire the variety is 
chiefly ‘ Square-head,’ a strong-strawed yellow Wheat. As far as my 
observation extended, I could trace the fly in each field by the bent 
stalks, but the damage so far did not seem to be great, as the bent 
heads seemed fairly filled with grain. In Aberdeenshire a good deal 
of Barley is grown, and also a six-rowed variety called ‘ Bere.’ I have 
seen it stated that the ‘Bere’ crop was uninjured, while the Barley 
alongside was attacked; but I have been unable to confirm this by 
personal observation.” 
Oct. 15th. Mr. H. Lindsay Carnegie, of Kinblethmont, Arbroath, 
replied :—“ I found the fly in nearly every field of Wheat near me, but 
not to any serious extent. Wheat here is nearly all winter-sown, and 
of the white variety. I searched several fields of Bye. but found none 
at all in them, nor in any of the Oat-fields. Barley was decidedly the 
most affected of all the cereals. From the very early harvest 
very little damage was done in reality, as the grain had filled before 
being cut over.” 
Oct. 15th. Mr. John Norwood replied to my inquiries from Bulby, 
Bourne, Lincolnshire:—“The kind grown on Lord Aveland’s farms 
here is ‘ Square-head,’ a hardy red Wheat. The field in which ‘ fly ’ 
was most numerous has been threshed, and yielded 38 bushels per acre, 
scarcely so much as I expected; but still a very fair yield for poor 
strong land. I certainly could not estimate the loss caused by 
‘ puparia ’ at more than one bushel per acre. 
“ My opinion is, had the weather not been so dry and fine for 
ripening, the ears on broken-down stalks reclining on the ground would 
have suffered severely; but the absence of rain and the hot dry state 
of soil enabled broken-down ears to fill almost as well as the others, 
and almost, if not quite, as good quality of grain. In ‘ rubbing-out ’ 
grain from the broken-down ears I noticed little difference in quality 
compared with the erect ones, but a slight diminution in quantity, not 
being so well filled. Had the season been wet the deficiency must 
have been much greater. In a neighbour’s field in this parish, growing 
a largely advertised variety of White Wheat, I estimate the loss at a 
higher figure, certainly two to three bushels per acre; and I do so from 
having noticed the broken-down ears very badly filled. I may say I 
