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motion, and does his mischievous work at night, 

 gnawing off the young plants close at the surface of the 

 ground. This enemy is hard to battle with.. If the 

 patch be small, these worms can be scratched out of 

 their hiding places by pulling the earth carefully away 

 the following morning for a few inches around the 

 stump of the plant destroyed, when the rascals will 

 usually be found half coiled together. Dropping a little 

 wood ashes around the plants close to the stumps is one 

 of the best of remedies ; its alkaline properties burning 

 his nose I presume. A tunnel of paper put around the 

 stump but not touching it, and sunk just below the sur- 

 face, is recommended as efficacious ; and from the hab- 

 its of the worm I should think it would prove so. Late 

 planted cabbage will suffer little or none from this pest, 

 as he disappears about the middle of June. Some sea- 

 sons they are remarkably numerous ; making it neces- 

 sary to replant portions of the cabbage patcli several- 

 times over. I have heard of as many as twenty being 

 dug at different times the same season out of one cab- 

 bage hill. The farmer who tilled that patch earned his 

 dollars. When the cabbage has a stump the size of a 

 pipe stem it is beyond the destructive ravages of the cut 

 worm, and should it escape stump foot has usually quite 

 a period of growth free from the attacks of enemies. 

 Should the season prove unpropitious and the plant be 

 checked in its growth, it will be apt to become " lousy," 

 as the farmers term it, referring to its condition when 

 attacked by a small green insect known as aphidse, 

 which preys upon it in myriads ; when this is the case 

 the leaves lose their bright green, turn of a bluish cast, 

 the leaf stocks lose somewhat of their supporting pow- 

 ers, the leaves curl up into irregular shapes, and the 



