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Insects which affect the young plants 5 



Cutworms 5 



Plant-lice 6 



The garden webworm 7 



The white-lined sphinx caterpillar 8 



Grasshoppers 10 



Wingless May beetles 13 



Insects which injure the leaves 14 



The salt-marsh caterpillar _ 14 



The arge tiger moth , 14 



The beet army worm 14 



The fall army worm 15 



The lo moth 15 



The cotton-boll cutworm 15 



Leaf-cutting ant 16 



Insects which injure the stalk 17 



The stalk borer 17 



The cotton-stalk borer 17 



The snowy tree cricket 17 



Insects which injure the squares and bolls 17 



The cotton square-borer 17 



Cotton "sharpshooters" ^.. 18 



The cotton leaf-bug 20 



Other plant-bugs 20 



Click-beetle 21 



The cowpea-pod weevil 22 



Brucluts amicus Horn 22 



Acorn weevils 22 



Blister beetles 22 



Conclusion 22 



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