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considerable amount of labor, and the new trap is designed to minimize 
this. 
The trap affords an attractive place for the larvae to spin their 
cocoons, and it prevents the escape of the moths after they emerge 
from these. The trap, which consists of a burlap band covered by a 
strip of wire screen, is made as follows: Strips of burlap 6in. wide are 
folded into three thicknesses. The ioose bark from the lower branches 
and trunk of the tree is removed and a strip of this burlap folded. To 
make sure that no moths may escape through openings along the edges 
of the trap or along the flap, a thin coating of pitch tar may be used. 
This material, when heated, may be applied readily with a brush. The 
traps may be placed on the tree at any time during the Winter or in 
the Spring not later than one month after the petals have dropped. 
As long as no openings occur in them they will require no 'further 
attention. The codling moth larvae, having completed its feeding in the 
fruit, seeks a piace to spin its cocoon, and for this purpose generally 
crawls up or down a tree trunk. Meeting the trap, it enters through 
one of the openings in the mesh of the wire screens and spins its 
cocoon beneath the burlap band. When it emerges as a moth its larger 
size makes it unable to escape through the opening in the screen by 
which it entered the trap. It must be clearly understood, however, 
that this trap is not a substitute for spraying. 
Cat-Worm Moth Trap. — A remarkably effective method for 
destroying the cut-worm moth and other Insect pests is being used in 
California. The arrangement consists of a high candle power electric 
light enclosed in a glass globe, directly below which is a pan about four 
feet in diameter, filled with oil. The moths are attracted to the light, 
strike against the glass, are stunned, and fall into the oil, from which 
there is no escape. As many as 7000 moths have been captured by a 
single light trap in one night. 
Cutworms, Exterminating. — Dr. W. E. Britton, State En- 
tomologist, New Haven, Connecticut, is author of the following notes: 
“Cutworms are the caterpillars or larvae of certain moths, and have the 
habit of cutting off the stems of plants near the surface of the ground. 
Much injury is done' by them to nearly all kinds of garden and field 
crops, and many inquiries are sent to the Station each year regarding 
remedies. Cutworms naturally feed during their growth, upon the 
roots of grass and other native plants and ordinarily are unnoticed. 
From the time the ground is plowed usually several days elapse before 
the plants appear, and during this time the worms are forced to go 
without food. The newly transplanted plants are therefore attacked 
and greatly damaged. The name cutworm is applied to the larvae of 
special species of owlet or noctuid moths, all of which are somber- 
colored and fly at night. There is usually one brood each year, and 
the eggs are laid upon grasses during the latter part of Summer. 
One of the most satisfactory remedies is to distribute a poisoned, 
sweetened bran mash over the field, which may be prepared as follows: 
Bran, 5 lbs.; Paris green, 4 ozs.; lemon or orange, 1 fruit; molasses, 
1 pint; water, 7 pints. Mix bran and Paris green together, dry. 
Squeeze juice of lemon into water and then cut pulp and peel into fine 
