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under the ground, and are clearing the fields of all plants of 
the sort.” 
A little later Mr. Frazer wrote the following note, showing the 
serviceableness of hand-picking, if it could be managed at a paying rate , 
the apparent uselessness of trying to kill the grubs with quicklime, 
and some remarks about the amount of attack being different on land 
differently prepared. 
Mr. Frazer wrote:—“I have followed your advice and put some 
people on to hunt for the pests round the Cabbages with a knife and 
dig them up, but it is a very slow job. They find as many as five or 
six at nearly every plant that begins to droop, and doubtless there are 
countless numbers all about the ground. 
“ They have eaten off about four acres of Swedes and about the 
same quantity of Yellow Aberdeen Turnips, and are eating a lot of 
White Turnips, as fast as they get any size—and have eaten a large 
quantity of Cabbages. I replanted 40,000 and they have eaten them 
all again. I cannot think that lime and sulphur would be any good 
against them, as I have put quicklime on them, after digging them out 
of the ground and it does not kill them—their skins are too thick. 
They are only on the ground that has been kept cultivated and 
prepared for roots in the summer. I have four acres of Cabbage 
planted on Wheat stubble, just mucked and ploughed, and they have 
not touched them. 
“ They are only on all the land that was prepared for roots, and 
are eating a crop of Rape lately sown on some clay land that has been 
a dead fallow all the summer. It would require an army of people to 
hand-dig and pick them all over 100 acres of roots, and I fear they 
will do me irretrievable damage. I see they have also done a lot of 
harm to my neighbours. 
“ Unless one could get at them in the moth state, before they lay 
their eggs to form these grubs, I fear they are invincible.” 
On the 19tli of September Mr. John Coleman sent specimens of 
the same caterpillar from Quarndon, Derby, with a note that the 
“ large grubs were making sad havoc of everything green in the 
garden.” 
On the 20th a similar report was sent from the Manor House, 
Everleigli, Marlborough, by Mr. C. W. Curtis, of the grubs making 
great havoc of the Swedes on his farm. “ Many acres have been 
destroyed, and I hear my neighbours have also suffered. They seem 
to attack the root in numbers, and as many as fifty-seven were taken 
from one Swede.” 
The following report was sent me on the 21st of September, by 
Mr. Lewis Danford, from Langley Bromfield, Salop, and I insert it at 
length, as, besides general points of interest, it is noted that mineral 
