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which 10 travel and will not attempt to crawl onto the 

 paper. The papers if properly cared for will last for 

 a number of years, and can be safely taken away from 

 the plant in a week or ten days. — [Dr. ]\I. W. Strealy, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Alost vegetable growers and also those who raise 

 flowers are often greatly annoyed by the cutworm at 

 transplanting time. An entire garden set with young 

 plants may be practically devastated in a few nights 

 by this worm. Being a hidden enemy, it is all the 

 more difficult to control. A^Minnesota gardener writes : 



-rr-j^g 



I have found the device shown at a in the illustra- 

 tion very successful in keeping cutworms from injuring 

 my garden. The pest cuts off the young plants just 

 above the ground during the night. To prevent this, 

 take any kind of paper, preferably a stiff wrapping 

 paper used at grocery stores, cut a strip about three 

 inches wide and as long as is required to wrap two or 

 three times around the stem of t\ie plant, leaving 

 enough space for development. Make the hole in the 

 ground, put in the plant and then enough soil to cover 

 the fibrous roots. Wrap the paper around the stem 

 and fill in with soil both inside and out so that one- 

 half the paper will be below the surface and half above, 



