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CORN AND GRASS. 
highest state of cultivation, both as to manure and mechanical con¬ 
dition. Weeds should on no account he allowed in anything but a state 
of infancy, as if permitted to cover the ground they weaken the crops 
and afford a ready supply of cover and food to the pest.—(Adam Lee, 
Lydbury North, for the Eight Hon. the Earl of Powis.) 
Manures, into the composition of which sulphuric acid largely enters, 
are thought when drilled with Turnip seed to repel the Wireworm, but 
I do not consider that any caustic manure or rape cake put into the 
land will in any way affect Wireworm, except as stimulating the rapid 
growth of the plants. 
On light lands probably the application of— 
2 cwt. of Kape Cake, at the cost of . . 7s. 
2 ,, Superphosphate ,, . . 8s. 
1 ,, Kainite ,, . .6s. 
Total . 21s. 
per acre will he found one of the best fertilizers for Wheat. When 
sown broadcast at the time of drilling the seed this carries the plant out 
of reach of attack, and gives a satisfactory return on all light soil. On 
clay it is useless.—(Balpli Lowe, Sleaford, Lincolnshire.) 
If the crops are attacked the best means that I have noticed for 
saving them is to dress these (white straw crops) with some nitro¬ 
genous manures, such as nitrate of soda, by which they are induced to 
grow away fast from the pest which prefers very young growth.— 
(Eobert L. Pudney, Halstead, Essex.) 
The use of artificial manures, nitrate of soda to the corn crops and 
superphosphates to the root crops, I have no doubt is the proper thing, 
so as to push the young plants on as quickly as possible.—T. E. 
Hulbert, North Cerney, Cirencester.) 
In a 20 acre Clover ley, dunged and sown with Wheat, a strip right 
through was attacked rather severely. This was rolled, and nitrate oj 
soda was applied, and at harvest this part was quite as good as the rest 
of the field.—(E. Cooke, Detling, Maidstone.) 
The only manure used as a top dressing is soot, and this is an 
excellent remedy against Wireworm and a valuable manure.—(H. 
Hayward, Blakemere, Hereford.) 
We suffer but little from the ravages of Wireworm in this district. 
Its effects are chiefly observable where the soil is somewhat poor, and 
too open and porous. It is considered it can best be kept under by 
dressing with lime, soot, and salt, and severe rolling.—(Eev. Gf. T. 
Blomfield, Norton, Ilminster.) 
Turnips sown May 25tli were ready for thinning June 20tli, but on 
June 22nd so many of the plants were found to be dying from attack of 
Wireworm that we did not thin until eight days later, to allow them 
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