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CORN AND GRASS. 
A field of seventy acres between Sleaford and Lincoln, which was 
sown with common Turnips, and a full plant nearly ready for the hoe, 
was found to be infested with Wireworms of different ages. A number 
of girls were set to work, and taking each a drill row, and guided by 
the different colour or withered appearance of the plant, by a quick 
movement of the finger dislodged the “ worms,” and picking them up 
placed them in a small bottle carried in the left hand. These Wire- 
worms were greedily eaten by the poultry.—(Balph Lowe, Sleaford, 
Lincolnshire.) 
I have seen the Wireworm caught in large numbers by placing 
sliced roots in Hop hills, women doing the work, and being paid by 
measure, a successful but expensive plan.—(Fred. Beard, Horton, 
Canterbury.) 
I have not been a sufferer from Wireworm ravage this year, but a 
neighbour has found them cause considerable damage among young 
Hops, so much so that he opened each hill, and inserted pieces of 
potato in every one. The next day the Wireworms had chosen the 
potatoes, and ten or a dozen were found boring into the pieces at each 
Hop root. At least two kinds were destroyed—the Wireworms, or 
larvae of the Click Beetle, and the Julus guttatus. * This method 
proved effective, and saved his young plantations.—(D. Turvill, Alton, 
Hants.) 
Application of Seaweed. 
Orkney.—The island of Sliapinsay is seven miles long and five miles 
broad, and is surrounded on the east by the German Ocean, on the 
* The Julus guttatus, Fab. (J. pulchellus Leach) is one of the Snake Millipedes 
sometimes known as False Wireworms. These feed on vegetable matter, but how far 
they also feed as matter of regular diet on animal food, as worms, snails, &c., is not 
yet ascertained. 
Polydesvius complanatus, Lin., the flattened Millipede, is another kind that some¬ 
times does much damage to the roots of Wheat. 
False Wireworms. 
Snake Millipedes.—1, Julus Londinensis; 2 and 3, J. guttatus, nat. size and magni¬ 
fied ; 4, J. terrestris; 5, horn; 6 and 7, flattened Millipede, Polydesvius covi- 
planatus. —‘Farm Insects,’ “ Skip-Jack and the Wireworm,” by A. M., &c. 
