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CORN AND GRASS. 
[Isle of Man. 
Parish of 
Observer. 
Crop Injured and 
Nature of Crop 
preceding. 
Nature of Soil. 
Manure and 
Preparation of 
Land. 
Date of Sowing 
and Weather at 
Time. 
Kirk Bride 
II. 
Turnips have suf¬ 
fered ; previous 
crop Barley. 
Loose and sandy. 
We use sea¬ 
weed and farm 
manure. 
June 
in. 
Potatoes slightly 
after lea. 
Light loam on 
sandy bottom. 
Farm manure. 
Planted in heavy 
rain in April. 
Kirk 
Andreas 
I. 
No loss. Barley 
after Potatoes, 
Turnips after 
lea. 
Black soil 
Yard manure. 
Barley, May 18. 
Green crop 
about middle 
of June. 
II. 
No loss. 
Black soil, loam 
Farm and patent, 
or patent only. 
No difference 
seen in work 
of Wire worm. 
Wheat, Dec.; 
Oats, April; 
Barley, May; 
Turnips, June. 
Jurby 
Carrots and Barley. 
Sandy soil on 
Farm-yard ma- 
Carrots and Po- 
I. 
Potatoes badly 
injured. 
gravel. 
nure and dis¬ 
solved bones. 
No lime. 
tatoes planted 
about middle 
of April. 
Weather fine, 
soil moist. 
II. 
None at Thie 
Vane. Turnips 
after Oats on old 
lea at B’Managh 
badly attacked. 
Sandy and gra¬ 
velly ; higher 
and most 
gravelly least 
attacked. 
Dublin and Wick¬ 
low patent ma¬ 
nure. Hollow 
with soil more 
earthy most 
attacked. 
Injured crop 
end of May. 
Weather dry, 
but soil nice 
and moist. 
III. 
No injury 
Light land on 
gravel. 
Farm-yard and 
patent. No 
lime. Wire- 
worm are 
worst in light, 
turfy soil. 
Lea Wheat, Dec.; 
Barley, March; 
Oats, April; 
Green crops, 
beginning of 
June. 
Ballaugh 
Small amount of 
Black sand in 
Lime, manure, 
Seed sown in 
I. 
injury to Tur¬ 
nips only. 
the Curragh. 
and dissolved 
bones. Crops 
on dung un¬ 
harmed. 
May and June. 
Weather fine. 
II. 
About | Wheat 
and ^ Turnips 
injured. Wheat 
after Green 
crops. Turnips 
after Oats. 
Stiff loam, nearly 
marl. 
Lime not been 
used for many 
years. 
Wheat, 1st week 
in Jan.; Tur¬ 
nips, end of 
May, injured 
and uninjured 
same time; 
both in fine 
mild weather. 
III. 
No injury 
Wire worm cuts 
worst in turfy 
soil. Wheat 
suffers most 
in this neigh¬ 
bourhood. 
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