CONTENTS. xiii 



Paob 



Tortrix, sericoria, leaf rollers 386 



Drasteria erechtea, clover drasteria 387 



Colias philodice, common yellow butterfly 388 



Insects attacking clover seed 889 



Cecidomy ia leguminicola, clover seed midge 389 



Grapholitha, clover-seed caterpillar 393 



Asophia costalis, clover-hay-worm ,. 393 



Insects injurious to grass crops 895 



Lachnosterna fusca, May beetle, white grub 403 



Agrotians, cut worms 403 



Leucania unipunctata, army worm 405 



Elaters, wire worms. 406 



Blissus lencopterus, chinch bug 408 



Caloptenus, locusts or grasshoppers 409 



Crambus vulgivagellus, vagabond crambus 410 



CHAPTER XVII. 



THE FTNGI OP FORAGE PLANTS. 



Com-smut 414 



The leu-smut of Timothy 414 



Grass-rust „ 416 



Clover-rust 418 



Ergot— 420 



The cat-tail grass fungus 423 



The black-spot disease of grass 424 



The black-spot disease of clover 424 



The violet root-fungus 426 



The grass-mildew 426 



The pclerotium disease of clover 427 



The grass-peronos])ora 429 



The clover-peronospora 430 



The seedling rot 430 



Fairy-ring fungi 430 



Debris 433 



Bibliography 434 



Index 437 



