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about, the first up-springing plants will be liable to attack; and if 
eggs are laid on them, and the maggot establishes itself in the young 
plant, great mischief will ensue to -the attacked crop; and also we 
should thus establish the extra increase of haying a winter brood in 
addition to those of the warm season. 
The remedies for Hessian Fly-attack have been so repeatedly 
brought forward, that an apology seems almost necessary for men¬ 
tioning them; but still the great points of prevention should always 
be borne in mind, namely :—(1st) destruction of infested fine screenings; 
(2ndly) rotation of crops; and (3rdly) autumn Wheat-sowing at a date 
that will bring up the young plant at a time past danger of egg-deposit 
from the Hessian Flies which have developed on the later Corn crops 
of the season. 
Saddle Fly. ? Cecidomyia ( Diplosis ) equestris , Wagner. 
Stem of Barley attacked by Saddle Fly red maggots; and a “ saddle,” mag. 
The above sketch of an injured Barley-straw is figured from a 
specimen forwarded to me during the last season by Mr. J. Eardley 
Mason, of the Sycamores, Alford, Lincolnshire, from a field in that 
neighbourhood. This injury was caused by “red maggot,” nearly 
allied to the well-known English kinds found in Wheat-ears or on 
Barley-stems; but, so far as could be judged by the appearance of the 
maggots, and the very peculiar method of injury to the straw, the 
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