Tal^ III.] WIREWORM AND CLICK BEETLE. 61 
Observations 
regarding Rooks. 
Remedies made 
use of. 
Amount of Loss 
to Observer, or in 
his neighbourhood. 
Injury more or 
less than in 
previous Years ? 
Remarks. 
• • • • 
Soot and rolling 
the ground 
early in the 
morning when 
the dew is on. 
Not aware of 
any loss this 
season. 
• • • • 
No injury by 
Kooks this 
season. 
Kooks are sure 
to appear 
where there 
is Wireworm, 
but not much 
elsewhere. 
Rooks and Jack¬ 
daws come 
occasionally. 
Do little, if 
any harm. 
• • • • 
• • • • 
Have found soot 
serviceable in 
garden culti¬ 
vation. 
About ^ of the 
portion of the 
crop affected. 
Turnips slightly 
attacked. 
Have not heard 
of loss in 
neighbour¬ 
hood. 
Less than in 
former years. 
Less. As good 
a season, free 
from cutting, 
as I think we 
ever had. 
Very much less. 
Part of the field was 
dressed with seaweed 
for the green crop pre¬ 
vious to the field be¬ 
coming lea; that part 
was uninjured. 
Kooks always 
appear on the 
crop about the 
same time as 
the Wireworm 
injury. 
Sufficient roll¬ 
ing is, I 
think, the best 
remedy. 
Some injury to 
Turnips, 
amount not 
known. 
• • • • 
The best remedy I know 
of and have tried is 
rolling; but the gene¬ 
ral impression here is 
that salt sown in with 
the seed or some time 
previous is very good. 
Rooks on the 
land within a 
few days after 
thinning. 
None 
No money loss 
to observer, 
very trifling to 
neighbours. 
Should say less. 
No injury to corn has 
come under my notice. 
When Wheat is 
just in bruit 
they come for 
the grain, not 
the grub. 
None 
Trifling .. 
Not more than 
average. 
“ Skerries ” the worst 
attacked. Potatoes 
sometimes destroyed in 
the spring, but most 
damaged in August. 
Our crops have 
many times 
suffered injury 
from Rooks. 
• • • • 
We hardly ever 
suffer from 
Wireworm in 
this neighbour¬ 
hood. 
• • • • 
This year the Rooks have 
destroyed most of our 
Potatoes, and many a 
year they have destroyed 
acres of our Turnips. 
Rooks did much 
injury to Tur¬ 
nip crop before 
I had means of 
preventing them 
• • • • 
Salt. 
No damage of any 
consequence, 
excepting to 
Turnips by 
rooks. 
• • • • 
• • • • 
Very much less. 
No injury to my Turnip 
crops by Wireworm 
within the last forty 
years. 
Rooks are the 
greatest pests. 
Even Turnips 
l^ger than an 
I have seen 
pulled by them. 
• • • • 
Have about 150 
acres under 
white crop, 
but scarcely 
the 8th of an 
acre spoiled. 
• • • • 
Rooks possibly often on 
the look out for Wire- 
worm, but have not 
noticed the following 
crop the least affected, 
even on the spot most 
attacked by rooks. 
manure, and about 2 acres with patent manure and dirty salt, this last portion was free from Wireworm and fly, 
best Barley. 
