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TOMATO CULTURE 



circumstances, by the same method employed against 

 the Colorado beetle. When they are present in great 

 numbers a good remedy consists in driving them with 

 the wind from the cultivated fields into windrows of 

 straw or similar dry material previously prepared 



FIG. 38 TOMATO WORM (Protoparce sexta) 



(a) Adult moth; (b) full-grown larva; (c) pupa all reduced 

 (After Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



along the leeward side of the field, where they will 

 congregate and can be burned. 



The tomato worms, of which there are two com- 

 mon species closely resembling each other, are often 

 abundant and destructive on tomato foliage, partic- 

 ularly southward. The arsenicals will kill them, or 

 they can be held in check by hand-picking, a little 



