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when the malefactor will lie exposed to view, and can be 



instantly destroyed. I have known large fields to be cleared by 

 this process at a cost of labor so slight as to bear no comparison 

 with the loss that would have otherwise resulted." 



The practicability of this method, and an idea of the expense 

 attending it, will appear from a statement made by a corre- 

 spondent of the Country G&ntl&mpm,. A six-acre field of corn, 

 planted on sod turned over from a pasture before planting, showed 

 a strong attack of cut- worms. Two men were employed to dig 

 them out. Taking a row at a time, and digging down wherever a 

 plant was cut, they went over the field in half a day, killing over 

 fifteen hundred. A few days later they went over it again, not 

 getting as many; and again, for a third time. Without this 

 labor, it was thought that one-half of the crop would have been 

 lost. The three days' w T ork was worth four dollars, and at least 

 100 bushels of corn were saved by it. 



The poisoning method referred to is the use of a bait of leaves 

 or clover, of which the worms are fond, poisoned with Paris green. 

 Professor Riley, in his last report as entomologist of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, has recommended clover 

 sprinkled with Paris green w T ater, and laid at intervals between 

 the rows, in loosely tied masses or balls, which serves the double 

 purpose of prolonging the freshness of the bait, and of affording 

 a lure for shelter, 



A modification of the method, employed by Dr. Oemler, of 

 Savannah, Ga., was that of preparing cabbage or turnip leaves 

 by dipping them in a well-stirred mixture of a tablespoonful of 

 Paris green to a bucket of water, or sprinkling the side next the 

 ground after first moistening, with a mixture of one part of Paris 

 green to twenty of flour, and then placing the leaves at distances of 

 from fifteen to twenty feet throughout the field to be protected. 

 Two applications of this character, at intervals of three or four days, 

 particularly in cloudy w T eather, were usually successful in ridding 

 the field of the pest. 



Other remedial and preventive measures deserving mention 

 are : application of coal oil ; paper frames from six to eight inches 

 square; tin bands, ten inches long by two wide, lapped at the 

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