All measures to secure good hearty growth, such as 
may carry the moderately injured plants through attack, 
are very desirable. 
So is rotation of crop, as the fly only attacks certain 
cereals specified. 
Strong-stemmed corn is less liable to attack than 
kinds of which the outside is more readily injured by 
the maggots. 
The above methods of treatment mitigate the violence 
of the attack, and if in the coming season we find this 
injury, which has now for over a hundred years caused 
from time to time such devastating loss in America, has 
settled down here, we cannot do better than study in full 
detail the reports of observation and agricultural treat¬ 
ment which have been found to mitigate the evil. 
But meanwhile it is most urgently to be considered, 
Where did the attack come from ? As in the hundred 
years and more that it has been in America, and about 
half that time that it has been known in Europe, we 
have no records of its presence as a crop-pest; and 
plenty of records of it not being present it is reasonable 
to suppose that there has been some special circumstance 
which has not occurred before to which we owe its 
presence. To find what this is would be to find how to 
free ourselves from a most dangerous crop-pest, and if 
all concerned would examine into the various ways in 
which it can have been conveyed on the land, and will 
continue this watch and report on it in the coming 
season, we may hope to learn the source of the evil. 
I will venture to add that I shall have pleasure in 
receiving any communication on the subject, or samples 
of infested grain, and also samples of winter wheat or 
barley considered to be infested, and in giving all infor¬ 
mation that lies in my power on the subject. 
ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, F. R. Met. Soc., 
Consulting Entomologist of the Royal Agr. Soc. of England. 
Dunster Lodge, near Isleworth. 
