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TURNIP. 
On Aug. 28th the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck enclosed Surface-cater¬ 
pillars, with the mention that they were then much injuring the 
Agrotis exclamationis. 
Heart and Dart Moth, caterpillar, and chrysalis in earth cell. 
Swedes and Turnips, and, when the plants were quite small, ate 
quite through the root; likewise that the Rooks destroyed a good 
many. 
On September 15tli specimens of injured Swedes were forwarded, 
showing the power of the bulb of recovering damage when attack 
ceased, or weather or other favouring circumstances set in. 
Mr. Clutterbuck wrote accompanying :—“ I send you some speci¬ 
mens of Swedes attacked by the grub : the smallest one was finished 
off last night, as you see it. You will see that some of the other roots 
are likely to recover. 
“We find that they are affected worst in places under trees, and 
where the ground was dryer. The larger roots show marks of the 
grub, but they are now growing fast after the rains of a week ago, and 
I have no doubt that the Rooks destroyed a great many grubs. Some 
persons blamed the Rooks for rooting up the Swedes, but I have no 
doubt they were after the grubs. I have some roots now which 
seem quite to have beaten the grub now, with the help of the Rooks, 
and will be a fine piece of roots.” 
The following short observations as to the good effects of salt and 
artificial manure given by farmers in Weybread parish, situated on the 
north of Suffolk, were forwarded to me by the Rev. J. H. White, 
Weybread Vicarage, Harleston ; not having permission to use names, 
I give them simply as memoranda :— 
“ White Turnips sowed after a heavy farmyard manuring on a piece 
of lightish land. Result, total failure of crop. At the same time, on 
an adjoining piece of the same field, he sowed the same sort of White 
Turnips after an application of artificial only. Result, good crop. 
Salt mixed with manure considered would be beneficial as tending to 
destroy any grubs or maggots that might be deposited in the manure. 
