A dry summer is bad for swedes--among other things. Many grow
disfigured by wart-like excrescences about the size of a pea. Therein
lurk grubs, as partridges and pheasants know. They chip off the warts,
and one may see the rusty-looking hole in the centre of each one
whence the grub has been taken. All round the swedes these detached
warts may be seen, lying face uppermost, and proving the usefulness of
game-birds, particularly partridges.
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