DADDY LONGLEGS. 
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“ The only two good early pieces about here sold last week at £15 
per acre, the buyer to pick, cart, and do everything in fact. I should 
be glad if mine would come to £15 per acre, and this on the best field 
I have. 
“ The only remedy I can suggest is thorough and early hoeing ; 
nothing else will touch the grubs, which I believe work dozen deep in the 
dung under the flag of the furrow during the day.” 
About May 10th I received information from Mr. A. Bannester, 
Barling, Chelmsford, that Daddy Longlegs grubs were infesting in 
great numbers a crop of White Peas on a fallow well tilled and on 
marsh soil. 
Mr. G. Brown, Watten Mains, Caithness, N.B., mentions that 
farmers have suffered in all their crops from insect-attack during the 
past season. The chief characteristic of the attacks were the myriads 
of insects in the grub state, and the unequal nature of the damage 
done. Some localities suffered most severely, whilst others escaped 
with little apparent damage. He observes:—“ Tipula oleracea has 
been very prevalent on clay soils, on corn after rough lea. My 
attention has been particularly directed to a field upon this farm 
(Watten Mains) which is very varied in the character of its soil, being 
clay, peat, and loam alternately. On the clay knolls this grub did 
considerable damage, which may be accounted for in this way :—The 
ordinary amount of cultivation necessary to bring the other parts of 
the field into good tilth was not sufficient to break down the clay into 
a fine mould. In consequence of this the seed was insufficiently 
covered up, and (the seed-bed being rough, growth was much retarded) 
then the grub, attacking the weak plants, almost destroyed the crop. 
“ Next on the peat, much of the ground was covered by rough 
grass, which cattle and sheep would not eat. These parts offered an 
excellent place for the deposit of eggs, and suffered in the spring from 
this cause, yet, owing to the vigorous growth which generally occurs 
on such soils, the damage done has been trifling. 
“The loamy parts of the field escaped without damage, and have 
proved an excellent crop. The grub of this insect (Daddy Longlegs) 
has also done much damage to the young Turnip plants, and Peas 
also suffered.” 
From Levensliulme a note was also sent, with specimens accom¬ 
panying, of the Daddy Longlegs grubs eating off the Broad Bean 
plants just at the surface of the ground, so that the plants fell down as 
if broken off accidentally. 
The three following communications note bad attack after Clover 
ley, and mention is also made in them respectively of the large 
amount of grubs to be found in a given space ; that the Books were 
not found to help in clearing the grubs; of fertilising dressings 
