WIRE WORM AND CLICK BEETLE. 
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The Wireworm does not do so much harm to the Turnips as the 
Crows do by pulling up the plants to get at the worm.—(R. Renton, 
Earlston, N.B.) 
Two Pheasants were killed on the estate I manage, and in their 
crops were found 1500 Wireworms.—(Professor Charles E. Curtis, 
Farringdon, Hants.) 
Owing, I think, to the large number of Moles, the Wireworm in 
this immediate neighbourhood (Longleat) is not much trouble.—(Wm. 
Taylor, Longleat Gardens, Warminster.) 
Moles are very fond of Wireworms. You will always see them 
burrow most where the Worms are thickest. A neighbour of mine 
never kills any Moles, and has not done so for twelve years, and his 
crops are not so much destroyed as they used to be by Wireworms, 
but I think the cure almost, if not quite, as bad as the disease.—(D. 
Husband, Struthers, Cupar, Fife.) 
Weybread, Suffolk. 
Of the five communications with which I have been favoured, 
through the Rev. J. H. White, from the neighbourhood of Weybread, 
one makes mention of loss by Wireworm ravage amounting to a 
quarter of the crop ; one mentions a quarter to half; and another 
notes the loss as usually a quarter, but sometimes half the crop. 
The preventive measures advised are to plough soon enough, and 
keep the land solid, and to well bush and roll leys and pastures; also 
heavy rolling in spring to stop the Worm (as the looser the soil 
the worse the attack), and liand-lioeing and well rolling down the 
land are recommended. Artificial manure or nitrate of soda is 
recommended to run the crop on past the power of the Worm, and 
soot also is found useful, but no mention is made of the use of lime or 
of salt. 
One observer notes that rolling and treading are very well on some 
soils, but when you have got the Worm you must humour it, and give 
it something to eat (? Rape-cake.— Ed.) until it changes its state or 
the crop beats it. “ Seeds and certain grasses which harbour the 
Worm, and in which it delights to breed, of course increase the 
scourge.” 
“A certain amount ” of Rooks are advised, and for Moles see below. 
Having found that Wireworms were the favourite food of Moles, 
I determined (having first drained the land) not to destroy any more 
of the Moles, but to let them destroy the Wireworm, which having 
accomplished they speedily deserted my land.—(G.. W. Pretty, 
Fressingfield, Harleston.) 
