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paris green 1 pound to 150 gallons of water. If the paris green 
is sifted on dry it should be mixed with 20 to 25 pounds of flour 
or fine air-slaked lime. 
There is no danger in spraying cabbages with a poison up te 
the time when they are half-grown or even later. The outside 
leaves do not fold up about the head, hence there is little danger 
of enclosing the poison within the cabbage. 
CUTWORMS 
The well-known cutworms are larve or caterpillars of certain 
night-flying moths. There are several species of these cutworms 
and they attack various kinds of plants and cause a great amount 
of injury. They have the habit of working mostly at night and 
remaining hidden an inch or so below the surface of the soil 
during the day. 
As an example of the life history of one of these pests we 
may take the one known as the yellow-headed cutworm. The 
parent moth of this cutworm usually appears through July and 
August and deposits its eggs at 
the bases of grass stems. Here 
they hatch and the cutworms 
live on the roots of the grass, at- 
taining part of their growth by 
fall. They then go downward 
four or five inches and make 
cells in the soil in which they 
pass the winter. In the spring 
they return to the surface, eat 
ee Mies eased voraciously, and complete their 
Wrapred With Stirr Parrr growth when they transform to 
one AcaInst CUT-  nupee in the soil, from which the 
moths emerge in July and 
August, thus completing the life cycle. The life histories of other 
cutworms may vary from this one but many of them agree in eating 
voraciously and growing fast in the spring, doing thost of their 
damage at that time. 
Control. In the home garden cutworms may be caught and 
killed by hand. They will hide underneath pieces of boards or 
shingles placed near the plants where they may be found and 
destroyed. 
