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Corn and grass. 
Wireworm being found in, or apparently attracted by, manure; and 
likewise allude to field use of paraffin being possible and serviceable. 
Mr. H. Marshall, of Poulton Priory, Fairford, confirms observations 
of the importance of a firm soil, which will prevent the Wireworms 
travelling, in the following note:—“Thorough cultivation and the 
use of a really heavy 1 ring roller’ in spring, whenever the land treads 
hollow, will, in my opinion, prove a thoroughly reliable protection 
against Wireworm.” 
He further observes relatively to methods of clearing Wireworm 
out of the land before putting in a crop :—“ When I first farmed this 
land which I now hold (viz., in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862) 
I suffered very much from Wireworm. In two fields particularly 
I had crops entirely swept off in succession. I tried all prescribed 
remedies (except Woad) without success, when it occurred to me that 
perhaps a thorough breaking up of the furrow before planting, in lieu 
of the ordinary method pursued in this country,—of simply dragging 
and harrowing it down,—might bring the food of the Wireworm, and 
in consequence the Wireworm itself, to the surface, where the Rook 
and the Plover might be trusted to deal with him. I tried the plan, 
and I have never had a patch cleared by Wireworm since. 
“ I fancy the cavities maintained by an unbroken furrow very 
possibly provide camping ground for other enemies besides Wireworm. 
The two fields were—one of twenty-five acres, of a naturally hollow 
soil, which had been a gorse common about twenty or thirty years 
before it came into my hands, and was drained by me four feet deep 
as soon as I took it into cultivation ;—the other field is sixteen acres, 
a deepish loam on clay, and was a sour boggy pasture, drained to the 
same depth and broken up by me, the turf being ploughed down about 
twelve inches deep.” 
Mr. Edward Gordon, of Kelton Hill, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, 
writes, in continuation of last year’s observations :—“ I think I told 
you that I had the Wireworms (to the number of several thousands), 
gathered from a portion of a field on which the crop had previously 
been invariably destroyed. The result is that this season the Oats 
are uncommonly good upon it, and no signs of Wireworm. 
“I had treated this land with gas-lime without any apparent 
good, and then spread a heavy coating of farmyard manure on the 
stubble in the autumn, which I now think fed the Wireworms , as they 
came out very strong in the following spring.” 
Mr. Carrington, of Creighton, Uttoxeter, mentions that he 
frequently observes Wireworm in cattle droppings, and that he thinks 
the Rooks obtain a large supply of their insect-food from that source. 
The following note refers to the application of paraffin on a 
working scale as a field remedy:— 
