Tab?^ IV.] 
WIREWORM AND CLICK BEETLE. 
63 
Observations 
regarding Rooks. 
Rooks on the 
crops at sow¬ 
ing time. 
Some years Rooks 
do great injury 
by pulling Tur¬ 
nips to get at 
Wire worms. 
Observed on Oats 
newly sown 
and Turnips 
fresh thinned. 
Would have been 
about, but kept 
them away all 
the time. 
Rooks observed 
on neighbour¬ 
ing land just 
after Swedes 
were thinned. 
Rooks on the 
crop when 
quite young. 
ome years are 
very mischiev¬ 
ous ; they come 
just after sin¬ 
gling and go 
right where the 
worm is. 
Remedies made 
use of. 
Have found soot 
and gas-lime 
the best remedy 
No remedy tried. 
Guano sowed on 
a wet day been 
found effectual 
in attack on 
light hill soil. 
Have tried gas- 
lime with very 
satisfactory 
results. 
Have tried salt 
and tobacco 
by way of ex¬ 
periment, and 
found the latter 
kill the worm. 
Do not know of 
any remedy. 
Have tried salt 
and nitrate of 
soda, but not 
been successful. 
Salt and soot 
with varying 
success. 
Salt and rolling 
whilst crop is 
in bruit. Lime 
sown before 
ploughing. 
Amount of Loss 
to Observer, or in 
bis neighbourhood. 
In the neighbour¬ 
hood Wheat 
suffered sown 
on clay land 
which had lain 
in grass. 
Very slight in¬ 
jury in neigh¬ 
bourhood. 
Oats after pasture 
crop chiefly 
injured in the 
neighbourhood. 
Turnips and Lea 
Oats suffered 
much. 
No attack known 
of. 
On B’corteen 
about half Tur¬ 
nips. I have 
about six tons 
Turnips where 
should be 15. 
Two acres of 
Swedes almost 
destroyed. 
Do not know of 
loss in this 
neighbourhood. 
About £25 to self. 
Injury more or 
less than in 
previous Years ? 
Less . 
Less . 
Fewer complaints 
of Wireworm 
this year than 
usual. 
Less than last 
year, when 
Wireworm loss 
was half the 
crop. 
Injury rather 
greater this 
year. 
Greater 
usual. 
than 
Very much less 
this year. 
Remarks. 
There was a previous 
Green crop to half the 
Oats ; the rest on land 
broken for the first 
time. The former was 
the worst attacked. 
I think that as farmers 
now leave their land 
longer in grass this 
may account for in¬ 
creased destruction by 
Wireworm. They have 
time to increase, and 
birds do not readily get 
at them. 
Believe the worms work 
most in dry weather. 
Have seen gas-lime used 
with good effect, not a 
Wireworm after it. 
