AGRICULTURAL.

From the Albany Cultipator. THE WHEAT WORM.
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 Having seen call in one of the numbers of thy useful paper, the Cultivator, for in fomation in relation to the weavil, or wheat insect, send thee the result of my observa- tons and discoveries, which, if not fully satisfactory to thy readers, hope it will in- duce some of them to pursue my investIga- ton; and if the farmers generally arrive to the same conclusion as myself, think the time not far distant, when they will totally destroy the race of this destructive little foe

 In the first place, 1 have found that the in- sect which attacks the wheat is small snuff brown fly, which deposits its eggs in the hull of the wheat, when it is on the blow, the hull at that time being open. These eggs produce from three to fifteen little maggots to each deposite; and by the time the kernel gets to its milky state, they are sufficiently matured to convert 1t to their food And as the wheat becomes hard, they are so far ad- vanced in the stage of their existence, as to prepare for their next and more elevated state Of ilfe, Tn the form of the fly To effect this. they form to themselves covering or incrust- ation, which shall compare to that of the cocoon of the silk-worm, Tn which they are protected for a next years development. And m thss dormant state they still remain in the nun of the wheat, to be brought forth by the re-anlmating heat of spring, in the most per- iect form of this insect life, the small snuff brown fly; but, like all other insects, can at s'l tunes be brought to active life by proper

 ! nave carefully watched the wheat, from me tune of healing to maturity, and have discovered the fly, in numerous instances pushed into the hull of the wheat while in @s Blow, and on examining, could discover