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field only a few yards from a field of corn; upon examining it I 

 found in its mouth what I then supposed was a Cut-worm, but 

 which was very probably an Army-worm. At any rate, an animal 

 that will feed upon Cut-worms will most assuredly feed upon Army- 

 worms also. After carefully examining the above specimen, I 

 searched for others, and repeatedly saw them running toward their 

 burrows, each with what appeared to be one or more of these worms 

 in its mouth. But whether these Gophers destroy enough Army- 

 worms and similar insects to repay for the damage they do to corn 

 and other field-crops, I am not prepared to say. Besides their well- 

 known habit of digging up the newly-planted corn, I have seen them 

 feed upon the green heads of timothy. In doing this they stand 

 upon their hind-legs, bite off the stalk as high up as they can reach, 

 and, holding the head between their fore-paws, they take a few bites 

 and then throw it away, and soon afterward bite off another stalk, 

 and repeat the same maneuvers. After taking as much as they 

 wish, they hold their fore-paws each side of their mouths, appa- 

 rently for the purpose of forcing the contents of their mouths into 

 the cheek pouches, which they use for laying in their winter stores. 



SUMMAEY. 



To sum up in a few words what we have stated in the foregoing 

 chapters, we find that there are two distinct races of Army-worms. 

 The sedentary race rears three broods in one season, and hibernates 

 in the larva state. The migrating worms are the progeny of moths 

 which were bred in some remote locality, and migrated to the local- 

 ity in which the worms appeared. 



