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(4) The worms when once established in land where their natural 

 food plants are abundant have been found difficult to control. 



(5) Various insecticides and repellents have been tested, but 

 without satisfactory results. 



(6) Fall or winter plowing has been found to reduce injury, but 

 is only partially effective, as some of the weeds remain alive and 

 furnish food for the larvae until the tobacco or corn is planted. 



(7) Damage is best prevented by crop rotations, or by cultural 

 methods that prevent growth of the weeds which are food plants of 

 the worms, thus making conditions unfavorable for egg deposition by 

 the moths the summer before tobacco or corn is planted. Summer 

 plowing, thorough preparation of weedy land, and the growing of 

 crops of cowpeas or crimson clover, preferably cowpeas, the year 

 before crops subject to injury are planted, have been found to be the 

 most satisfactory and practical means of control. 



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