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CORN AND GRASS. 
Salt and Kainite. 
Notes of heavy dressing with salt being found serviceable to kill Couch-grass , 
and cdso to destroy or drive away Wireworm. Lighter dressings found 
useful in promoting vigorous growth of Wheat. Scdt also serviceable 
in garden cultivation to protect Cabbage from Wireworm attack. 
Observations of benefit from use of Kainite. 
Salt at the rate of 5 or 6 cwt. per acre on light land is considered 
useful if sown before breaking Sainfoin or Clover ley.—(Joseph 
Addison, near Basingstoke.) 
In former years I have experienced much benefit from the use of 
common salt, applied at the rate of 5 cwt. to the acre.—(L. P. 
Williams, Penberry, St. David’s.) 
An old ley was dressed with 10 cwt. of salt per acre in the autumn, 
and the salt ploughed in. This plan not only killed the Couch and 
Twitch, hut on this piece of land there was no trouble from Wire- 
worm, or from Grub, and none has been known to occur since.—(Per 
C. E. Curtis, Alton, Hants.) 
I have known a heavy dressing of salt (10 or 12 cwt. per acre), 
applied some weeks previous to sowing, to have a good effect. 
On the lighter lands of Radnorshire I have observed that Wire- 
worm is most destructive on old and poor grass land ploughed up for 
Oats. The land being light, porous, and exhausted, offers every 
facility for the action of Wireworm. In such cases two or three crops 
are frequently destroyed in succession. 
The general treatment is to lime and salt liberally , and to tread the 
land by consuming the root crops with sheep. 
On the other hand, I have known strong loam, rich with farm-yard 
dung and artificial manure, but without lime or scdt, suffer severely. I 
do not think that either salt or lime will directly kill Wireworm, but I 
venture to suggest that soil thoroughly impregnated with one or both 
may become an unfitting abode for it.—(David Rowland, Titley, 
Herefordshire.) 
For six years previous to the year 1873 every crop in a 13-acre 
field belonging to me, and in my occupation, was more or less attacked 
by Wireworm. I farmed the field on the four-course system, and on 
two occasions four acres of Wheat in the middle of the field were 
destroyed by Wireworm. In 1873 the field was a Clover ley, and was 
dressed with 8 cwt. of salt to the acre previous to ploughing for 
Wheat, and 5 cwt. of damaged decorticated cotton cake per acre was 
also put on it at the time the Wheat was sown (the cake was best 
decorticated cotton cake, but had been a little damaged by fire, and t 
cost £5 per ton delivered at my station). The crop of Wheat was very 
