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cient to warrant any extensive operations against them. Clean 

 and thorough stripping, however, makes conditions less favor- 

 ahle for them, for the accumulation of dead leaves and trash 

 usually present in a cane field, is just the sort of condition most 

 acceptable to themi Xo doubt it would be found in fields of 

 young ratoons intended to be cut purposely for "seed" that to 

 keep \\ell strii)])ed would result in less damage being done, i. e., 

 fewer "eyes" being eaten out; for the eating of the "eyes" is done 

 before the leaf is removed from the cane, while the l^ud worm has 

 it to hide behind. 



Careful inspection of "seed" from such places should lie made 

 to avoid the planting of cuttings having one or more "eyes" de- 

 stro\-c(l. 



