lo-i-i The Vegetable Industry in New York State 



paris green 1 pound to 150 gallons of water. If the paris green 

 is sifted on dry it should be mixed with 20 to 2"> pounds of flonr 

 or fine air-slaked lime. 



There is no danger in spraying cabbages with a poison up to 

 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 larva? 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 

 voraciously, and complete their 

 growth when they transform to 

 pupa? 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 most 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 

 destroved. 



Fig. 399. — Cabbage Plant 

 Wrapped With Stiff Paper 

 as a Protection Against Cut- 

 worms 



