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we have a heavy black frost, which cuts the shelter, we have less 
destruction from the grub.” 
[The serviceableness of feeding sheep or cattle on pastures or 
Clover-ley before breaking up as a means of prevention of insect-attack 
is a subject of so much importance that it may be well to refer the 
reader to various observations on this subject given in the “ Report on 
Wireworm,” printed in the ‘ Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society,’ 
part i., 1888, and in my own ‘Report ’ for 1882, published 1888. The 
practice is strongly recommended there as a means of preventing 
Wireworm-attack, and it would be even more useful to get rid of the 
Daddy Longlegs’ grubs, in which we have to deal with a pest that 
only lives some months, whereas the Wireworm lives several years. 
—Ed.] 
Another large farmer, contributing through Messrs. Lauts’ hands, 
mentioned that “he has no grub. He gives the lea a ton of salt to 
the acre, and allows it to lie thereon, thus destroying grass and leaving 
no shelter or covering for the eggs.” After sowing he doubly rolls 
the land to press it close. All seem to agree on the advantage of 
keeping soil close. 
A few reports from localities in England mentioned bad attack, but 
did not add new information to the methods of treatment noted in 
preceding Reports. 
Garden Chafer; “ Chovies.” Anisoplia horticola, Curtis ; 
Phyllopertha horticola , Kirby. 
Phyllopertha horticola. 
Chafer, nat. size. Chafer and grub, magnified. 
The following note refers to an appearance of the small Chafers, 
perhaps best known as Garden Chafers, of which the grubs are some¬ 
times as mischievous to grass-roots as those of the common Cockchafer. 
One of the peculiarities of the beetles is the enormous numbers in 
which they occasionally congregate on various plants or trees, 
