4 N. H. AGR. EXPERIMENT STATION. [Circular 7 



or two or three pounds of sugar, with two gallons of water. 

 Moisten the poisoned bran with the sweetened water. Use 

 just enough of the water to make the bran fairly moist without 

 making it sloppy. 



If a small quantity is needed, mix one teaspoonful of paris 

 green with a quart of dry bran. It is not really necessary to 

 measure the paris green accurately; simply use enough to give 

 the bran a slightly greenish tinge. Then prepare a pint of 

 sweetened water and moisten the bran with this. 



To use this material, fill a pail with it and walk along between 

 the rows in the garden, scattering the poisoned bran over the 

 surface of the ground so that small chunks half as big as a walnut, 

 or larger, will be distributed every foot or two. Do this just 

 before the plants are due to come up. 



This will provide a meal for the cutworms in advance of 

 the sprouting of the vegetables. . They will feed readily on the 

 poisoned bran, and will be killed before they have an opportunity 

 to damage the plants. 



It is essential when using this remedy that poultry be kept 

 away from the garden for a few days. After a week or two, 

 or after one or two rains, the bits of bran usually disappear 

 sufficiently so that there is little danger of poisoning poultry. 



Mechanical Protection. Often cutworms cause excessive dam- 

 age by cutting off newly set tomato plants or cabbage plants 

 that have just been transplanted from seed boxes. Such- plants 

 may be rather easily protected by wrapping a small square or 

 strip of paper around the stem when setting them out, so that 

 the stem near the ground will be protected by a cylinder or 

 collar of paper. This paper protector should extend into the 

 ground half an inch and above ground two or three inches. If 

 soft paper is used, the collar should make two or three turns 

 around the stem, so as to give sufficient thickness to stand up 

 in spite of showers. 



Cultivation. As has been stated above, the moths that are 

 the parents of cutworms are on the wing in late summer, laying 

 their eggs in fields thai are grown up to such herbage as weeds. 

 If land is kept in clean cultivation at this time, especially if 

 it is in a crop such as potatoes or tomatoes in which there is 

 only one plant to considerable area of soil, there will be few 

 eggs laid there by the moths. Keeping down weeds in the late 

 summer is, therefore, one means of avoiding damage the next 

 season. 



Approved : 



J. C. KENDALL, 



Director of Extension Work. 

 DURHAM, N. H., March, 1913. 



