Tennessee 
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G. 14 Bentley (June 17): This is a serious pest to cultivated 
stra^lDerr ios in eastern and ?restern Tennessee, 
ASPABillUS 
Michigan 
CUT'YORMS (Noctuidae) 
R, H. Pettit (June 1^): Mr* Harman just got back from a 
visit to Lake City -rhere he looked into the cutworm matter. 
He finds that the ground on 77hich the asparagus T7as planted 
has li^ht, sandy soil. The land had "been in sod for several 
years until it was plowed in 192I and planted to oorn and in 
1922 it r/as plo^jed and fertilized with kO loads of "barnyard 
manure to the acre, planted to asparagus. It is still in 
asparagus. In 1922 the cutworms were very plentiful, injuring 
the crop and causing serious loss. The worms have decreased each 
year T^ite m.aterially. The damage is done chiefly "below 
the surface of the ground and shows up when the stalk puslies 
through, then displays the so-called "cripple." It seems that 
some of the work is done at the surface, or at least that the 
worms come to the surface at night and travel about, but that 
they do much of their work beneath the surface. The owner 
has been able to collect a quart of more of the cutworms during 
a night by searching with a lantern. 
How abutit the' failure of the bran bait: After a considerable 
inqui^ry it develops that they used arsenate of ledd instead of 
white arsenic in malcing their bait and, of course, it is perfectly 
natural that it should not work, 
I sent then a pound of arsenate of soda and 3 ounclBS>' of :^ high- 
grade banana oil with instructions for making up 20 pounds of 
bran to find out if that would work. Apparently that did; they 
used it on another crop v;hich was being attacked by cutworms 
and the cutworm work ceased Immediately after the application 
of the bait. 
BILJ^IS 
South 
Carolina 
Georgia 
MSXICAl'T BEAN BEETLE ( Epilachna corrui^ta IvJuls. ) 
J, A. Berly (June 16): The I.Iexican bean beetle has appeared 
in numbers within the past two weeks and is sufficiently 
injurious to warrant control measures, the principle injury 
being to snap beans, 
IT, E, Howard (Jiine 27): ITow eastward to a line from York to 
Aiken County, 
ITeale E. Howard (June 16): The Mexican bean beetle ha.s now 
been found in a belt e:?ctending from Troup and Stewart Counties 
in the western part of the State across the State to Richmond 
and Burke Coijnties, so that now this intact ccvors practically 
the northern two-thirds of the State, (June 27): EcundHi-g-Tiiiles 
west of Thomas V ill e. 
