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to get stronger. Tlien I believe an eighth part of the plants were 
destroyed, but as they had been sown very thick there were plenty of 
plants left,, and being fine growing weather at the time they began to 
do well. 
As a stimulus a part was sown with nitrate of soda, 2 cwt. per acre ; 
another part with common salt, 4 cwt. per acre ; and another with dis¬ 
solved bones and guano, 3 cwt. per acre, or thereabouts. It was plain 
that the nitrate of soda answered best, and the whole was re-sown with 
it. Now the crop is a pretty fair one, but 1 believe if nothing had been 
done it would have been lost.—(R. Renton, Earlston, N.B.) 
Observatio7is regarding Wireworm being attracted bg Farmyard Manure. 
Some farmers consider that spring crops sown on land that has been 
dressed with farmyard manure are more infested with Wireworm than 
those sown on land dressed with artificial manures. I think artificial 
manures are of great use, as on every account it is good to force on the 
plant at the time the insect is at its work. 
In this part of the country (Pen Pont Farm, near Brecon) ferns are 
used in great quantity by most farmers for bedding purposes, but in one 
locality it is considered that the Wireworm occurs in such numbers in 
manure made from ferns that the farmer will not allow a load of these 
to be brought into his yard, and I have seen Potatoes planted in manure 
made chiefly from ferns very badly infested by Wireworm.—(Thomas 
Jones, Penpont Farm, Brecon.) 
I have noticed in former years that portions of land which have been 
treated with farmyard manure have been seriously attacked by Wire- 
worm, while adjoining portions, covered with ashes, road-scrapings, &c., 
have at the same time been entirely free from them.—(L. P. Williams, 
Penberry, St. David’s. 
I think heavy dressing with farmyard manure helps to encourage 
Wireworm.—(J. Prince, Foston, Derby.) 
It is a well-known fact that salt is an effective preventive of Grub 
and Wireworm in cornfields, and besides is valuable as a fertilizer, and 
in strengthening straw grown on land deficient in saline matter. 
If farmyard manure, and especially stable dung, was turned over 
and salted in spring, or salted after being spread in the drills previously 
to being covered, I believe we should have much less Grub of all sorts. 
—(James Kay, Bute Estates, Rothesay.) 
The above points are well worth further observation and considera¬ 
tion, for one great principle of prevention for Wireworm attack is to 
press the land so firmly that the Wireworms have not free passage in 
the soil, and it is plain this state cannot be thoroughly attained where 
farm manure is used in the condition in which it is commonly applied 
to the soil, and where large quantities of any kind of vegetable matter 
