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A very good method is the plowing of a furrow around 

 the fields. 



The worms will collect in this ditch and a log dragged 

 along it with a rope will crush large numbers of them. 

 Poisoning plants around the edges of a field with a mix- 

 ture of Paris green and water is useful where the worms 

 are not too numerous. 



THE FALL ARMY WORM 



{Laphygma frugiptrda.) 



is covered with stiff erect hairs and appears only in the fall, 

 therefore it may be easily distinguished from the foregoing. 



THE PEACH-TREE BORER. 



(Sannina (.-Egeria) exitiosa.) 



Hibernating in the pupa state, the moth appears in May 

 and June. The eggs which are of a beautiful yellow-brown 

 color are deposited singly on the trunks of the peach and 

 cherry, near the roots, and held in position by a gummy 

 secretion. They are about one fiftieth of an inch long, and 

 a little more than half as wide. 



Fig. 10. Peach-tree Borer (female). 



The larva as soon as it hatches seeks a crevice and 

 works down under the bark toward the roots. 



It is, according to Saunders, "a naked soft cylindrical 

 grub, of a pale whitish yellow color, with a reddish, horny 



