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Mustard as a growing manure crop is not sufficiently resorted to.— 
(Per Clias. Caswell, Peterborough.) 
Mustard sown thickly and allowed to grow to a considerable length, 
and then ploughed in, has been found to be a good preventive, and at 
the same time adding considerably to the fertility of the land.—(Adam 
Lee, Lydbury North, Shropshire, for the Right Hon. the Earl of 
Powis.) 
Found Mustard a good preventive, and sometimes the only safe 
crop to sow where Wireworm prevailed.—(J. Forrester, for the Right 
Hon. Viscount Portman, Bryanston, Blandford.) 
I think Mustard acts as a preventive.—(Geo. Burgiss, The Farm, 
Strutherglen, Petwortli.) 
For fallow after cleaning sow Rape or Mustard Seed about the end 
of July, and plough it under when about a foot or eighteen inches high. 
(Contributed by J. Craig, Sliifnal, Salop.) 
The Wireworm has been known to disappear after a crop of White 
Mustard, of which one-lialf was eaten on the ground by sheep.— 
(Joseph Paget, Mansfield.) 
I have no doubt of Mustard being a good remedy where it can be 
applied so as to be ploughed in for the crop. 
I would suggest that Flax should be substituted for the Corn crop 
on all land most liable to the ravages of Wireworm, especially now 
that the fibre, harvested and threshed, can be utilized for paper¬ 
making, thus opening up a new and remunerative article of farm 
produce. . 
I have heard (and believe) it is invulnerable to the Wireworm, but 
cannot speak on the fact from my own experience.*—(T. R. Hulbert, 
North Cerney, Cirencester. 
White Mustard sown and allowed to stand until it comes into 
flower is a very useful preparation—when ploughed in and pressed— 
for all corn, and, I think, prevents the Wireworm doing so much 
mischief.—(Joseph Addison, Mapledurwell, Basingstoke.) 
I have never known Wireworm troublesome after Mustard or 
Vetches.—(M. Locke Blake, Ilminster.) 
I have not found that Red Clover encourages Wireworm, but where 
mixed seeds and much Rye Grass are used I have found these very 
productive of Wireworm. The best remedy, and one frequently 
adopted, is to break up early and plant Mustard, which is an excellent 
preparation for Wheat, and I have found Mustard the best preventive 
of attack.—(H. Hayward, Hereford.) 
I have not noticed Wheat after Clovers, Beans, or Peas affected, 
if no grass had grown among those crops. As for remedies, I can 
* The only Beetles that I find reference to as injuring the Flax crops in their 
perfect or grub state are the Cockchafer and a kind of Flea Beetle. —Ed. 
