CONTENTS. xiii 



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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 



Cecidomyia leguminicola, 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 



Blissus 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-rust 418 



Ergot f 420 



The cat-tail grass fungus 



The black-spot disease of grass 



The black-spot disease of clover 424 



The violet root-fungus --- - - 426 



The grass-mildew 



The sclerotium disease of clover.. - 427 



The grass-peronospora - 429 



The clover-peronospora. - 



The seedling rot.. *.- 



Fairy-ring fungi - - 430- 



Debris.-.. 



Bibliography 



Index.. - 43T 



