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tliat takes long in rotting are added, the difficulty of course is much 
increased. 
Further, it has been observed that the Wireworm of the common- 
striped Click Beetle, Agriotes lineatus, Escli., has been found (and 
sometimes in great numbers) in dung, and in vegetable manure or 
vegetable earth ; and thoroughly rotted horse dung has been found to 
be a feeding-place for the Wireworm of the Black Click Beetle, Athous 
niger, Linn., and consequently these kinds, and conjecturally several 
others (whose habits, as far as we know, are very similar), may thus be 
easily carried out to the coming crop in the manure. —(Ed.) 
Rolling and Treading with Sheep, &c. 
Notes of Wireworm being most destructive on light and friable soil, or when 
land is in this condition from weather effects , such as are caused by 
long frosts.—Pressure of the land by rolling, or by treading with 
sheep, or other measures, calculated to compress the soil firmly, and 
thus keep the Wireworms from travelling, strongly recommended 
both as methods of prevention, and also as remedies when attack is 
present. 
Wireworm infests land of almost all descriptions, but more frequently 
those of a light, friable, and dry, or moderately dry, texture. It seems 
to delight in being able to run freely from one plant to another, and 
damages all crops more or less, but its effects are never so plainly 
visible as in the early spring to the Wheat, Barley, Oats, small 
Turnips, and other plants. 
Where measures of prevention have been untliought of, or have 
failed, and the young crop is attacked, the first thing to be done would 
be to roll with a heavy flat, smooth roller, or with a Cambridge roller 
or ring roller first, and a flat one to follow, and this should be done 
when the land is as wet as it is possible to work the implement on free 
of clogging, in order to arrest the progress of the Worm from one plant 
to another. 
To drive sheep over it until no part can be seen without a sheep 
track is also a good plan, but is heavy work for the sheep.—(Adam Lee, 
Lydbury North, for the Right Hon. the Earl of Powis.) 
Rolling after sowing is generally admitted to be the best preventive. 
By rendering the soil firm and compressed it prevents the ready 
passage of the Wireworm from plant to plant, and thereby localises the 
damage. 
Where crops are affected rolling or treading by sheep where prac¬ 
ticable is a plan universally adopted, and is, I think, the best remedy. 
—(David Rowland, Titley, Herefordshire.) 
Rolling and treading at the time of sowing the seed have been found 
serviceable.—(Ralph Lowe, Sleaford, Lincolnshire.) 
