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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt:...is thrown with the view of (first of all) acting as a clearer of the plant or insect presence, obviously the time of application is not so important, but the amount given, and time of exposure, is so, relatively to effects on the following crop. The exposure to the air is requisite, to change the nature of a portion of the constituents (which at first do good by their acrid nature) to sulphate of lime or gypsum, a manure serviceable on many soils, and especially to such crops as clover, sainfoin, lucerne, peas, beans, vetches, and turnips. An eye should also be given to the condition of compost-heaps of rotten turf, or trimmings from ditch-sides, or of neglected manureheaps which have been allowed to become weed-grown, as Daddy Longlegs grubs are often to be found in numbers in such localities, and carried thence on the land. Dressings of lime on the rotting turf, or trimmings, and sprinklings with gas-lime on either compost, or manure heaps, are some of the measures to prevent egg-laying. Thorough cultivation is very important, as the thriving crop will hold its way, where an unkindly growth would fail under attack without the help (and additional outlay) of fertilizing dressings. ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, Lute Entomologut to the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Tohrington House, St. Albans, May, 1894. Click Beetles and Wibeworms: 1 and 2, Elater lineatus; 3 and 4, E. obseurus; 5 and 6, E. sputator, nat. size and magnified; 7, Wireworm of E. sputatort 8 and 9, Wireworm of E. lineatui, nat. size and magnified; 10, back of pupa of Wireworm. Lines Bhow nat. length. Wireworms are amongst the most mischievous of our common crop pests. They are remarkably long-lived, for they continue in this grub or larval state for a period of three to possibly five years (acc...