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Wire-Worms, to Starve, or Destroy, 3
It was summer-fallowed and plowed but three times, with intermediate cultivation with harrow and cultivator, so that nothing grew and no signs of the worm have appeared since, which was some six years ago, a crop of grain or grass having been grown annually since. I would advise the inquirer to summer-fallow his land one season in this thorough manner, allowing nothing to grow to feed the worms; then seed, first of October, to grass, of such variety as he desires to raise, without any grain crop with it, and I think he will gain Ms object of a good seeding. "
Remarks. —Although this edition does not speak of applying salt, the season of summer-fallowing, yet, I should certainly do so; and by the way, it has been found the refuse salt, which can be obtained at salt-boiling houses, can be got much cheaper than good salt, while it also contains chemical properties which make it much better than common salt as a fertilizer. This has been proved at the Saginaw. Two birds again killed with one stone, where this can
be attained; and where it cannot, the dirty and refuse salt from pork-packing houses, is much cheaper than barrel salt.
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