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distorted and retarded growth of the attacked shoot or Corn-stem, it is 
probable that artificial dressings applied in the early stage of the 
summer attack would do much good. 
One hundredweight of nitrate of soda, with two hundredweights of 
salt, to the acre would be a good application, by the fertilising power 
of the nitrate joined to the special effects of the salt. Guano and salt, 
or guano and superphosphate, would also be likely to do good, applied 
when first attack is noticed on the young plant. 
Drawing out and destroying the badly-attacked plants, which are 
especially to be observed along the water-furrows and edges of crop 
near grass headlands, is desirable, as a means of prevention of future 
attack ; and likewise, where the little stumpy-made black and yellow 
flies are found in the great numbers in which they sometimes are 
observable at threshing-time, they should be swept together and 
destroyed. 
Red Maggot; Wheat Midge. Cecidomyia (J tritici ), Kirby. 
Cecidomyia tritici. 
1—6, larvffi, nat. size and magnified ; 7 and 8, part of horn, magnified ; 
9 and 10, Wheat Midge, nat. size and mag.; infested floret. 
The following note by Mr. T. H. Hart, late of Park Farm, Kings- 
north, Kent, refers to the presence of different kinds of Red Maggot 
in Wheat; last year notes furnished by Mr. Hunter, and Mr. Edmund 
Baillie, of Chester, showed the presence of the common Red Maggot, 
and likewise another kind, which might possibly be a small variety, 
but was considered by Mr. R. H. Meade to be probably a new or 
undescribed species, on the Common Foxtail Grass. 
The existence of various kinds of Red Maggot, and the extent to 
which they affect different varieties of Wheat, or on occasion affect 
other kinds of Corn or wild or cultivated grasses, would be a serviceable 
