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sprinkling the plants with land plaster, fine wood ashes, ot 

 dust is somewhat effective. 



CUT- WORM. These pests are most injurious to the new- 

 ly set out plants. They cut through the stem of the plant 

 just at the surface of the soil, their depredations being com- 

 mitted almost entirely at night. They hide beneath the sur- 

 face of the soil, as soon as daylight arrives ; but their love 

 of shelter and darkness may be made their ruin. A scatter- 

 ing of small boards, shingles, or even armfuls of cut grass 

 through the field, attracts them as shelter, beneath which 

 they can readily be found in the morning and destroyed. 

 The poisoning of green grass by a mixture of Paris green 

 and bran may be used, if handfulls of the mixture be scat- 

 tered between the rows. But really the best protection 

 against this pest is in the line of prevention, which may be 

 secured by clean culture and the burning of all litter and 

 useless vegetable growths in the fall, so that their winter 

 hybernating places are destroyed 



GREEN HORNWORM. 



This is a distinctive tobacco worm. The only sure pro- 

 tection is by hand picking and destruction. When the pest 

 becomes prevalent, this must be vigorously followed day by 

 day, as its depredations upon the leaf result in the eating of 

 large holes, and it may end in utterly ruining the crop so 

 far as successful wrapper tobacco is concerned. The moth 

 which lays the eggs for the worm may be trapped by ex- 

 posing the blossoms of common jimson into which has been 



