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to report his needs to the county agent, who could then furnish as- 
sistance from a township where the infestation was light. The farmers 
went to work on this simple plan. 
Very few additional furrows needed to be made since by connecting 
those that had already been made at random and shaping them into an 
effective barrier was all that was necessary. The crop most seriously 
endangered was corn and where a portion of the field was infested, it 
was separated from the uninfested portion by a furrow and the poison 
mash used in preventing further injury. 
A trip through the infested sections about sundown showed groups 
of farmers busily at work on a definite plan. Confidence in their 
method of protection had now almost entirely replaced the excitement 
of the forenoon. Now and then a group could be observed very much 
interested in watching the worms in vain efforts to cross the dust 
furrow. They would breathlessly watch a poor worm laboriously climb 
the straight edge of the furrow and as it reached the loose soil at 
the top and fell sprawling back again, a whoop of glee would burst 
forth from the watchers. Late that night many a farmer went home to 
his first sleep in three days. 
The next day each farmer repaired his furrows and eagerly ex- 
amined the results of poison bran mash put out the night before. 
Favorable reports came in from everywhere. On one particular farm 
where the farmer made and applied the mash as directed, absolutely 
no further injury to his corn occurred, while a small area which his 
slightly skeptical mind caused him to leave as a check, was totally de- 
stroyed. 
The county agent now had the situation well in hand and profes- 
sional assistance was in demand elsewhere. His final report came a 
week later, and being quite typical, is quoted as follows: ‘All you 
said has come true.” 
U. S. Bureau of Entomology, West Lafayette, Indiana. 
