REPORT OF THE SOCIETY 



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(A), Tool used for cutting tarred felt paper discs, one-third size; (B) disc about 

 one-half size; (C) showing how the tool is used, the dotted line indicates the 

 position of the edge of the tool. (After Goflf.) 



could cut with a sharp knife a sufficient number of discs for his purpose. 

 It is important that the discs be placed around the stems of cabbages and 

 cauUflowers immediately the plants are set out. In placing the disc, one 

 side is raised sufficiently to allow the parts of the star at the end of the slit 

 to point upwards and thus fit closely to the stem. The whole disc is then 

 pressed down firmly so that it will rest evenly on the ground. 



Cutworms 



These well-known smooth, cylindrical caterpillars feed, under normal 

 conditions, at night, hiding in the soil during the day. The surface-feeding 

 cutworms cut off the plants near the ground, or a little below it. A female 

 cutworm moth lays several hundreds of eggs, usually on the leaves of weeds, 

 grasses, shrubs, etc. The moths of the chief injurious species appear in 

 June, July and August. Cutworm injury, as a rule, ceases before the end 

 of June. The more regularly-occurring species are the Red-backed Cut- 



