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Montgomery county: "The webworm has done us some damage. We 

 have mowed as quickly as possible and disk-harrowed." 



Comanche county: "Webworms bother some years. We try to mow 

 when we see them come." 



Crawford county: "Mow it or pasture it when you find it infested." 



Marion county: "The webworm has ruined several crops. I mowed 

 the fields at once, regardless of the stage of growth." 



Montgomery county: "We have never fought except to cut as soon as 

 the webworm makes its appearance." 



Russell county: "Once when in bloom for seed crop the webworm tied 

 the blossoms. We cut the crop for hay and they did not return." 



(See page 386.) 



Army Worms. 

 On the subject of army worms the following reports are submitted: 



Brown county: "I have had army worms twice in sixteen years. Each 

 time they stayed a month and then left. I lost a crop each time." 



Russell county: "We have had the army worm once or twice in the 

 last twenty years, but they don't last long." 



Atchison county: "The spring army worm ate it down after it was 

 mown for about ten days last year. They disappeared until the second 

 cutting was about ready to cut, and then stripped it." 



Nemaha county: "The army worm was troublesome in 1914 and de- 

 layed the starting of the second crop by eating off the new growth when 

 it appeared." 



Ottawa county: "Army worms have bothered some in wet years. A 

 good way to do after cutting and getting the hay off, is to harrow the 

 field on a bright sunshiny day. They can not stand the hot sun, and un- 

 covering them with the harrow gets the most of them." 



Linn county: "When I find army worms working in my alfalfa I turn 

 in a lot of young shoats and scatter shelled corn where the worms are 

 working. The shoats will get the corn and worms." 



Crawford county: "Army worms made a raid and the hogs did the 

 work." 



Jefferson county: "A lot of complaint was heard here of army worms 

 last year. I let the hogs eat them." 



Anderson county: "Army worms took possession and ate a near-by 

 field. A herd of sows and pigs met them at the alfalfa fence and they 

 did not go any further. I gave the sows and pigs free range over the 

 place and they cleaned up the worms." 



Wilson county: "I used poisoned bran mash for army worms quite 

 successfully, after mowing." 



Cherokee county: "Army worms were bad last year. I used poisoned 

 bran mash and cleared the field over night." 



Woodson county: "For destroying the army worm running a heavy 

 iron roller over them has proved a great benefit. After cutting our first 

 1914 crop the ground was almost covered with various worms, mostly 

 cutworms, and I believe the birds got most of them. Be sure and protect 

 the birds." 



(See pages 379 to 384.) 



