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Wireworm lias its own way with the remaining plants, and the credit 
of having destroyed the whole of the crop.—(Ralph Lowe, Sleaford, 
Lincolnshire.) 
If land is in good condition and in a high state of cultivation, 
Wireworm does not often seem to hurt the crops.—(M. Locke Blake, 
Ilminster.) 
Injury from Wireworm is most severe when the corn is attacked 
just as the seeds are striking root,—that is, when the food supplies in 
the grain are exhausted, and the plant is beginning to depend on its 
roots for nourishment. When the plant has reached the height of six 
or eight inches it does not fall back so readily under attack.—(Robert 
Coupar, Old Scone, N.B.) 
I observe that when the Turnip plant is attacked in its young state 
—that is, when about two inches high—that the Wireworm nips into 
the centre of the root and the plant dies, but when the plants get a 
little stronger, and one or two fibres begin to spring out from the sides, 
the plant receives little harm.—(R. Renton, Earlston, N.B.) 
The quicker you can get the seed to germinate and grow the less 
injury the Wireworm can do, but in dry weather and cold nights the 
Wireworm will do much mischief. 
I consider that by sowing 2 cwt. of rape cake per acre the crop may 
be partially saved, as the Wireworm will feed on this while the seed is 
growing, and thus get a good start.—(Joseph Addison, Mapledurwell, 
Basingstoke.) 
The application of artificial manure is doubtless an assistance to the 
plant, by strengthening it, and causing it to tiller out, and so in part to 
compensate for the damage done. 
The Wireworm is most destructive during a cold, dry season, with 
east wind prevailing ; in short, when the growth of the plant is sus¬ 
pended. After a copious fall of warm rain the destruction is seen to 
cease, and the plant to revive.—(David Rowland, Titley, Herefordshire.) 
There seem to be two plans for trying to get rid of the Wireworm— 
one the starvation of the worm by fallowing ; the other by the appli¬ 
cation of something strengthening to the crop, and, if possible, also 
injurious to the worm. Rolling and hoeing are resorted to,—anything, 
in fact, which may push on the crop and disturb the worm.—(R. Cooke, 
Detling, Maidstone.) 
. . . . Having arrested their progress, it is advisable to resort 
to the most highly stimulating manures, and with no sparing hand, in 
order to force the remaining plants to such a degree as to enable them 
to cover the ground, and become sufficiently strong to resist the attack 
of the worms that may escape from their imprisonment, or may hatch 
afterwards. 
Here again is another point in favour of keeping land in the very 
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