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Oct 3d 80

ordinarily worms do not leave altogether holes (except sick ones) but there have been some walk of dry weather & yesterday there were torrents of rain, & early this morning the walks wherever part allowed of tracks being left, were covered almost everywhere by tracks; so that 5 tracks crossed space of about one inch square — no dead worms about — They sometimes spread & stock new places — (I must comment what I have said at Abinger & that the now migration to a space where the whole of the humus had been removed)

Farrer says something about tracks & I speak of them at border of trench.

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Judging from perfection of tracks they must have been made during [line illeg]

Oct 7th last night being warm rain & this morning — many tracks not so many as in 3d, observed in all places

Oct 10 Very heavy rain last night some tracks, I traced & observed for 15 yards along walk

Worms seem to suspect the epidemic when hundreds may be seen dead on the surface