INJURIOUS INSECTS OF I909Q AND IQIO. 3 
have to take active means to combat them if we wish to save our 
crops. This division has found poisoned bait, made of bran mash 
sweetened with cheap sugar, or syrup, or molasses, and made decid- 
edly green with a liberal application of Paris green, to be a very 
good remedy in a garden. A tablespoonful of this should be put 
at frequent intervals among the plants subject to attack; not, how- 
ever, nearer than twelve inches to the plant; for, in case of rain, the 
Paris green might be washed against the roots, and would injure or 
kill the plant. The Paris green should be mixed with the bran 
when the latter is dry. Thorough cultivation is an aid. Pieces 
of shingle or board, placed at intervals over the garden, serve as 
traps under which the cutworms hide toward morning, and enable 
them to be found and killed. Frequently the depredator will be 
found in the morning, within an inch or so of the plant cut, buried 
an inch under the soil. Young plants, when not too numerous, like 
cabbage, cauliflower, etc., when first set out in a small garden, 
should be protected by paper or tin, or a barrier of some sort, 
which should extend into the ground an inch or so, and two or three 
inches above the surface. This can be removed when the plant 
becomes so tough as not to invite attacks from the cutworm. On 
large acreages, fall plowing and thorough cultivation is perhaps the 
most practical treatment. Cutworms, as we said above, are always 
bad the next year after sod, since they normally live in such situa- 
tions. Some farmers, in 1910, reseeded their grain fields with 
flax on account of the former being destroyed by cutworms. 
The family Noctuidae is an enormous one. Professor Lugger, 
my predecessor, left a list of two hundred and thirty-five different 
species of the group, captured partly at St. Anthony Park, and 
partly at Duluth. Of this list, something like forty-five species are 
typical cutworms. Therefore, farmers can hardly speak of ‘‘the 
cutworm.” 
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Fig. 1. A Cut worm and its work. 
