PLOWING TO KILL INSECTS 75 



can and gradually work his way downward as the 

 weather gets cooler. The white grub lives for the most 

 part in timothy meadows. The question that confronts 

 the farmer is whether he wants to use the meadow for 

 pasture in the fall, plow the ground the following spring 

 and run chances of having the grubs destroy his corn, or 

 plow to get the grubs. After they have attained their 

 full growth they are nothing more or less than the 

 common May beetle or June bug. 



These four white grubs were found in a square foot of timothy sod. 

 When anyone learns their characteristics it is a comparatively easy 

 matter to keep them from doing a great amount of harm. 



The time to plow to thoroughly get rid of white grubs 

 is when the grubs begin to bury themselves in the 

 ground. Plowing the ground at that period and turning 

 all the hogs, chickens and turkeys into the field to feast 

 on these grubs will rapidly diminish their number. If 

 the plowing is done late enough frost helps in the killing. 



The proper remedy for getting rid of the Hessian fly 

 is first to plow immediately after harvest, burying the 

 stubble as deep in the ground as possible and to keep 

 the surface of the ground well cultivated so as to elimi- 



