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the mash in the evening so it will be eaten at night while moist. 



It is said that garden plants may be protected from cutworms 

 and flea-beetles by dipping the plants in arsenate of lead, three 

 pounds per barrel of water. The plants are dipped in the solution 

 just before they are transplanted. 



Where the worms are very bad, sometimes gardeners knock 

 the bottom out of tin cans and place these around such plants as 

 cabbage, tomatoes, etc. A protection may also be made with 

 building paper. The paper is bent into a cylinder and placed in 

 the soil around the stems of the plants. 



A plan that has been satisfactory wath us is to take a lantern 

 early in the evening, go into the garden and make war upon the 

 worms with barrel stave or "paddle." The cutworms are usually 

 on the surface or busy eating your plants. It does not take long 

 in this way to destroy the pests in such numbers as to have no 

 further trouble. — Farm and Raiicli. 



NEW EGYPTIAN GRASS GOOD FOR CATTLE. 



A late Washington despatch says : Sudan grass, a new drought 

 resistant hay plant, promises to become the leading grass for hay 

 production in the United States, according to C. V. Piper of the 

 Department of Agriculture, who has supervised experimental 

 growths. 



The grass is a native of Egypt, suited especially to semi-arid 

 land, grows from four to eight feet high and two to three crops a 

 season. It is preferred by cattle, hogs and horses. 



Roland McKee of the agricultural experiment station in Chico 

 experimented with the new plant in 1912 and is enthusiastic con- 

 cerning its value. 



"A fine growth was made," he reports, "and without ciucstion 

 this is the most promising grass for growing under irrigation in 

 the .Sacramento valley that has yet been tried. The number of 

 cuttings of hay was not determined, as with both plantings a seed 

 crop was allowed to mature, but it seems probable three good cut- 

 tings of hay can be made." 



The seed was planted at Chico May 2 and two months later 

 the grass was in full bloom and from four to six feet high. It 

 was cut for hay July 15, nine weeks after planting. Ivcports from 

 Texas, Virginia, North and South Dakota arc c(|ually encour- 

 aging. 



