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and much of the meadows are eaten up hv the Army-worm. Dr. C 

 W. Thornton, of Warrensburg, Kansas, in Kansas Farmer. 



Army-worm. — We have received from S. S. Tipton, of Mineral 

 Point, a specimen of the above genius, but a little the worst demora- 

 lized specimen we ever saw. The bottle was broken, and, as well as we 

 can determine, by the aid of a powerful magnifying glass, the worm 

 is in about sixty thousand pieces. We shall refer to the subject in 

 our next ; but in the mean time, we advise our friends to plow and 

 scrape out ditches, in which to spread dry straw. Then muster your 

 lorce armed with brushes, drive them into the ditches, and set fire 

 to the straw. We have seen them very successfully treated in this 

 way. Kansas Farmer. 



Thus in all the above accounts this worm was supposed to be a 

 fall brood of the true Army-worm, and in the following letter, we 

 shall see that it was also mistaken for the Corn-worm treated in the 

 last article — a mistake not at all surprising considering the close 

 resemblance between the two worms, 



C. V. Riley, Dear Sir. — I herewith send you a box of what I 

 believe to be the Boll-worm although its actions here were similar 

 to the true Army-worm. At my father's and in the neighborhood they 

 complain too of the Army-worm eating up the young oats and timo- 

 thy. With me they commenced about two weeks ago in afield of young 

 oats, or rather oat stubble which had been plowed under and sown to 

 buck-wheat. The oats had got to be about six inches high and were 

 eaten first, next the worm took what little crab grass they could find 

 and they are now scattered, eating grass, corn silks, soft corn, ruta- 

 baga leaves and whatever in the grass line comes before them. They 

 have not entered my meadow yet, nor a piece of wheat stubble which 

 is plowed under. G. Pauls. 



Eureka, Mo., Sep., 7, 1870. 



On the farm of Jno. J. Squires atDeSoto, this worm at first ate oiF 

 all the grass, then completely stripped the leaves from some corn- 

 fodder, injured his corn, ate into his tomatoes and ruined his turnips 

 — injuring his crops to the amount of nearly $>1,000. 



In some cases the worm acted strangely, and I have know it to 

 take a whole field of rye in preference to wheat, Judge Wielandy, of 

 Cole county informs me that it was abundant on his potatoes, cutting 

 off the lateral stems. It invaded a large cucumber field and entirely 

 cleaned out the crab grass, and would have injured his cucumbers 

 had he not applied slacked lime. In some parts of Jefferson county 

 it was very abundant and destructive, and Senator J. H. Morse, of 

 Morse's Mills had twenty acres badly injured by it, I have also been 

 informed that in some vineyards it did great damage by gnawing 

 around the stems and causing the bunches to drop off and fall to 

 pieces so that the grapes would scatter on the ground. But I cannot 

 vouch for the correctness of the observation. With me it did more 

 injury to corn than to anything else. Itnotonly greedily devours the 

 leaves and stems, but bores large holes through the ears, burrowing in 

 them in all directions. On late corn it is frequently found in the same 

 ear with the Corn-worm, alias Cotton Boll worm. The Boll-worm is, 



