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Tortrix, sericoris, leaf rollers 386 



Drasteria erechtea, clover drasteria 387 



Colias philodice, common yellow butterfly 388 



Insects attacking clover seed 389 



Cecidom via legumin icola, clover seed midge 389 



Grapholitha, clover-seed caterpillar 392 



Asophia costalis, clover-hay -worm 393 



Insects injurious to grass crops 395 



Lachnosterna f usca, May beetle, white grub 402 



Agrotians, cut worms _ 403 



Leucania unipunctata. army worm 405 



Elaters, wire worms 406 



BUssus lencopterus, chinch bug 408 



Caloptenus, locusts or grasshoppers 409 



Cram bus vulgivagellus, vagabond crambus 410 



CHAPTER XVII. 



THE FUNGI OF FORAGE PLANTS. 



Corn-smut 414 



The leaf -smut of Timothy 414 



Grass-rust 416 



Clover-i-ust 418 



Ergot 420 



The cat-tail grass fungus 423 



The black-spot disease of grass 424 



The black-spot disease of clover. 424 



The violet root-fungus ....• 42& 



The grass-mildew 426 



The sclerotium disease of clover. 427 



The grass-peronospora 429 



The clover-peronospora 430 



The seedling rot 430 



Fairy -ring fungi ' 430 



Debris 432 



Bibliography 434 



Index 437 



