2JS _ CORN 



brown. The skin is rather smooth, the body thick, generally marked 

 by lonf;itudinal lines with an occasional blotch. 



The eggs which produce these worms are laid by grayish or brown- 

 ish colored moths, and are deposited in grass lands late in the season. 

 These eggs hatch the same fall and the young lar^"a immediately feeds 

 upon the roots of the grasses until wniter sets in, when it buries itself 

 in the ground, curls up and waits for the warm days of early spring. 

 Then it again resumes its acti^'ities, wliich so often prove disastrous 

 to the prospecti\'e corn cro]). Often the outer rows of a corn field are 

 damaged severely, due to the cutworms coming in from an adjoining 

 field of grass or clover. 



There is generally liut une generation. However, there are a few 

 species that have two and three broods per year. The larva has 

 generally reached its maturity b)^ July 1st, when it buries itself in the 

 earth and begins to pupate. The pupa is leathery brown in appear- 

 ance. A gra}-ish or brown moth appears toward the latter part of the 

 summer. 



Prevention and Remedy. As the cut worm is most destructive to 

 corn following grass, early plowing is one of the best methods of 

 pt-r\-cnting its acti\'ities Poison can be used to good effect by mixing 

 \ y a^^M^ paris green with bran or mid- 



"^ ' ^ ^ ^ ''^ dlings, one pound of former to 



30 of latter. This may be dis- 

 tributed by means ot a seed 

 drill. Should the worms be in 

 grass land bordering a corn 

 ' "" ~'^ field, the latter may be pro- 



S "•'*'' tected by poisoning fresh 



Clav-h;ickc-d Cutworm. clover with a solution of paris 



(f-rllui KhiJiun,}. Adult. , , . 



,green, one pound of pans 

 green to .^0 gallons nf water, and scattering this along the edge of the 

 held. In rejjlanting cdrn in a field infested \vitli cut worms late plant- 

 mg IS adxisable. A ])arasite is kiKjwn to prey on the cutworm. A tiny 

 larvae from the egg nf a small fly proves fatal to the aft'ected cutworm. 

 THE SOD V\/EB V/ORM OR ROOT WEB WORM. (Several 

 Si)ecies of "Crambus"). These caterpillars average about one- 

 half inch in length when full'grown, are pinkish red or brownish, 

 and covered with rows of comparatively smooth dark spots, from the 

 center of each of which springs a rather coarse hair. The injury done 

 to corn is something like that inflicted by the cut worm, except that 

 the web worm docs not sever the entire stem, Init eats a groove up 



