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Mr. Wilson. I have sowed it. I sowed it ttie last of 

 July, and it made a stand of three or four inches in the fall. 

 A year or two ago I sent my man to plow the field, and he 

 came back and said it was too bad, — that there was too 

 much feed on it to plow. I think it makes a sweeter field 

 for the tobacco. It didn't winter-kill with me. 



Professor Brooks. I have seen the cut worm moths very 

 frequently. They are very pretty moths, of a dark color. 

 They come out during the late summer, and undoubtedly 

 they must lay their eggs about that time. I should suppose 

 that the injury, in allowing the sprouts to grow or in put- 

 ting on a green manuring crop, would be that the cut worm 

 moth would appreciate the fact that there was food for her 

 young, and lay eggs there ; and if the field were bare, she 

 wouldn't lay them. 



Dr. Jenkins. I don't know anything about the life his- 

 tory of the cut worm moth. Of course you know the cut 

 worm isn't one particular species ; there are a number of 

 species of cut worms, and they hatch out for a considerable 

 time through the season. I do not know Avhen the moths 

 lay their eggs. 



Mr. Lyman. "VYe are treating the cut worm in a very nice 

 way, to eliminate him from the face of the earth. We have 

 found it convenient and easily applied to mix the Paris green 

 in fine middlings with sweetened water, taking it up in that 

 Avay and throwing it down near each plant, or possibly only 

 between the plants. We take what we can hold in our thumb 

 and finger and thi'ow it near the plant, and we find the cut 

 worm is not of much damage to us. One man can cover an 

 acre as fast as he can walk through, two rows at a time. 



Dr. Jenkins. Some one announced in the papers that 

 they killed all the cut worms by mixing a little spirits of 

 turpentine in the water in the machine, and some of the 

 boys tried it, but the plants that got water were all right, 

 and the plants that got spirits of turpentine were killed, and 

 weren't of any use whatever. Water and spirits of turpen- 

 tine won't mix. 



The Chair. I practiced for quite a good many years 

 using nothing but wheat bran and middlings, with Paris 

 green. I always watered the first thing in the morning 



