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a Largo and beautiful Lawn entire!} eaten ofl bj these ravenous white- 

 grubs Where the grubs were in the soil the grass on tlu* Lawn could 

 be rolled up Like an immense fleece ol wool. We had Letters from coi 

 respondents during the summer of toia who said that their pastures 

 and meadows had been injured in exactly the same waj rhe roots 



oi the grass had 

 been eaten off and 

 the sod could be 

 rolled up Like a 

 greal rug or car- 

 pet. 



»> \>rn is .i favor- 

 ite food crop oi 

 white grubs. This 

 e specially true 

 in i Lie great Corn 

 Si.iics of 1 1) e 

 Mississippi Val- 

 ley, lu [Uinois 

 and Indiana often 

 large fields of 

 corn are practi- 

 cally d es i ro \ ed 

 i>\ white-grubs. 

 Poi. no crops 

 arc often badly injured by these insects. During the summer of 191a 

 we had many complaints of injuries to potatoes, We saw one small 

 field of potatoes in which there was hardly one perfect tuber. The 

 grubs gnaw into the sides of the tubers and eat out Large cavities, la the 

 illustration on this page are shown some o( the potatoes taken from the 

 field to whichwerefer. The ground in this field was practically fullofgrubs. 

 Strawberries seem to be greatly liked by white-grubs. The grubs eat 

 off the roots of the plants, which wilt and break off at the crown. The 

 insects seldom seem to be distributed evenly throughout the field, but 

 appear to be present in certain spots in which all the plants may be killed. 

 Metiiock There is nothing that can be put on the fields 



to kill the white-grubs, la the case of a Lawn or similar small area 

 the soil ui.i\ be soaked with a ten-pei>cent solution of kerosene emulsion, 

 which should then be washed in 1»\ soaking the ground with water. 



Pigs are excellent agents for ridding infested soil o( white-grubs. They 

 root over the whole surface ^i a field and catch every grub within 

 reach, even going to a depth of a foot ^y more in quest of the insects. 



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