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plant is out of the way of the worm, then it can be unhooked and 

 put away for another season. The inside should be painted, as 

 the bright tin when new will concentrate the rays of the sun and 

 burn the plant. They cost about $1.50 per 100, and will last a long 

 time, if painted" (Country Gentleman, for May 31, 1877, p. 348^c. 1). 



Paper Frames. — A writer gives this method for protecting from 

 cut-worms in a garden or patch : " Prepare at leisure a quantity of 

 small paper boxes — say from four to six inches square, without 

 bottom or top, made to taper about half an inch. Place these' 

 around the plants, the widest part up, so that the worms can not 

 crawl up their sides. Dipping the boxes in a strong solution of 

 shellac will, with care, make them last for years." 



Paper Wraps. — The bands and frames above mentioned can only 

 give protection against those larvse that feed above ground. A 

 simple device, involving no expense and hardly any labor, often 

 employed by gardeners to protect cabbage and tomato plants from 

 the species that sever the stalks below the surface, is that of wrap- 

 ping a piece of rather thick paper around the stalk as the plants 

 are set in the ground. Allowing it to project a little distance above 

 the ground may also circumvent the surface feeders. A burdock 

 leaf, or some other leaf of sufficient size, is sometimes used instead 

 of the paper. 



Glover Traps. — Mr. T. Boynton, of Michigan, states that he has 

 been very successful in entrapping cut-worms by placing wads of 

 clover among his tomato plants. The worms would gather about 

 them during the night, eat what they wanted, and secrete themselves 

 in the earth close by, not over six feet distant. As many as eighty- 

 two worms were found in the neighborhood of one of these balls of 

 hay [made of about the size of an apple]; in another instance, 

 seventy; in another, sixty-eight. On June fourth he claims to 

 have destroyed over 15,000 of these worms, which were on and 

 about his clover balls, by using boiling water. When the worms 

 chance to be even slightly protected, nothing less than water boil- 

 ing hot will kill them (Country Gentlemen for June 27, 1872, 

 p. 409, c. 1). 



An improvement upon this method has been recommended by 

 Prof. Riley, the publication of which is made as these pages are to 

 be handed to the printer (Ann. Rept. Depart. Agricul., for 1884, 

 pp. 299, 300). It is the poisoning of the bait to save the labor of 

 collecting and killing the larvse by the hot water, or otherwise. 



