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Wire-Worms, Protection Against, as Done near London, Eng., where Soot is Plentiful.
An agricultural writer in the London Land and Water, -under the head of "Soot vs. Wire-Worms, " says: "I found the wire-worm so abundant in every part of the garden I was set to cultivate that I could scarely grow a potato or a carrot without its being rendered useless by it; and, among the various things I was led to adopt as preventives, soot appeared to be the only effectual remedy. This I applied to potato crops in the following manner: The drills were got ready in their usual way and the sets laid in at the bottom of each drill. The soot was then put down upon them in quantity sufficient to cause the drills to assume quite a black appearance. This being done, the drills were closed in the ordinary manner to the natural level, and the work was finished. Wherever soot was applied the crops turned out clean and good; scarcely a trace of the wire-worms' ravages was to be seen, while those from rows not dressed with soot were quite the reverse, the potatoes being pierced through in every direction and fit only for feeding pigs. "
Remarks. —This, of course, would be as good in America as in England. The chimney-sweeps of London make the soot plenty there; but this is not
followed in our country as closely, notwithstanding its great importance in preventing the start of fires. Where the soot can be obtained it is worthy of a trial.
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