C80 Aguicultuual Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



arsenic, proving that the poison in the mash had done its deadly 

 work. 



One of our correspondents tried this mash, and he reported that 

 on the second day after it was applied he found the ground beneath 

 his peach trees " covered with dead worms. As long as we can 

 get the cotton b mds and this poisoned bran mash, I do not think 

 we need worry about the cutworms." Last spring, Mr. Davis 

 tested the inash in Michigan. He reports : " It was dropped in 

 little hunches around the base of each tree. The cutworms ate it 

 readily both as they passed it in starting up the tree and as they 

 came back hungry from their vain effort to get beyond the band. 

 The next morning more than half of the cutworms would be found 

 hanging to the bark, limp and dead, or in the same condition on 

 the ground. In some cases 90 per cent, were killed." 



In 1894, a man in California completely destroyed the worms in 

 a vineyard of thirty acres before any damage was done : he used 

 three pounds of Paris green to a sack of rye bran. A handful or so 

 of the mixture was thrown about the trunk of eacli vine. The evi- 

 dence thus far indicates that this poisoned bran mash is the most 

 effective and practicable method of killing climbing cutworms with 

 poisons ; where the cutworms are very numerous the cotton pro- 

 tectors will, doubtless, have to be used in connection with it. It 

 will, doubtless, prove equally as effective when used in greenhouses 

 to combat these pests. 



There are, thus, several methods by which the destructive work 

 of climbing cutworms can be prevented ; and, also, several other 

 methods that may be used in connection with or separate from 

 these by which they can be killed. At least, some of these methods 

 can be made efficient, practicable and profitable under any of the 

 varying conditions which may exist in infested orchards or vine- 

 yards. It is true that each one involves some labor on the part of 

 the fruit-grower, but he must expect this if he hopes to compete 

 with his moi'e energetic neighbor. 



In Gardens. 



Preventive measures. — Gardens planted on newly- plowed mead- 

 ows, pastures or grain stubble are more liable to attacks from 

 cutworms, for such ffelds are the natural breeding places of the 

 pests. However, they often appear in garden crops that have l)een 

 grown in the same location for many years ; a striking instance of 



