130 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
White grub (Lachnosterna fusca, Frohl). This 
is the larva of the common brown May beetle 
or June bug. The beetles deposit small, whit- 
ish eggs about the roots of grass which in about 
a month hatch into small, brown-headed grubs 
that feed on the roots about them. During the 
second year the grubs work near the surface 
and reach their full growth during the spring 
of the third or fourth year. They are most 
abundant in old grass lands, and when this is 
plowed for one or two seasons may work great 
damage to the corn which may be planted on 10. 
This is a difficult insect to exterminate. Fall 
plowing is no doubt advantageous. Pasturing 
land in the late summer and fall with pigs will 
be a means of getting rid of many, then plow- 
ing during the late fall or spring. 
Affecting the stalk.— Cut worms. Cut worms 
are of numerous kinds, all of which belong to 
one special group—the 
Noctuide. The follow- 
* ing are characteristics 
common to nearly all 
the species, according to 
Lintner.* 
Fia. 44 —GLASSY CUT WORM. Larva When full grown, cut 
of Hadena devastatrix. (After Riley.) worms measure from 
an inch and a fourth to nearly two inches in 
* Eighth report on the injurious and other insects of the 
State of New York for the year 1891, p. 231. 
