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CUT-WORMS. 
Some dingy colored larva: that burrow in the ground 
and have the pernicious habit of cutting off young plants of 
corn, beans, cabbages, tomatoes, etc., during the night. 
There are a large number of species of these worms, 
each changing, finally, to a particular species of night-flying 
moth. It is very largely these moths that fly about lights in 
the evening. 
Remedies — These worms are usually worst on newly 
turned sod. Probably the best field remedy is to plow late 
in the fall and then, in the spring, keep down all growing 
Fig. 45. — Cut-worm Moth. (Riley, Rep. U. S. J4ep. of Agr., 1884 ) 
vegetation and scatter over the field a large number of 
small bunches of green vegetation (alfalfa, grass, cabbage 
leaves, weeds, etc.,) that has been thoroughly dusted with 
Paris green or London purple. 
In gardens, individual plants of cabbage, tomatoes and' 
the like may be protectecl by wrapping about them stiff 
paper or cylinders of scrap tin. I'he latter may be cut about 
five inches long by three inches wide and then wrapped 
around a hoe handle or similar object to give them form. 
Then separate the sides of the cylinder enough to admit the 
plant and crowd the tin into the ground enough to hold it 
firmly. Stiff paper may be used instead of the tin. Do not 
hoe the garden too clean of weeds while cultivated plants 
are small as the cut-worms like the weeds as well as any- 
thing for food. If the latter are all cut down there is noth- 
ing but cultivated plants for them to feed on. This may 
seem to be questionable advice, but it will work well if the 
weeds are not neglected too long, so as to choke the other 
plants. 
GRASSHOPPERS. 
d'he loss to crops from the attacks of grasshoppers is 
annually very large in this state. Ifven the dry pasture 
lands in many places support a horde of these greedy ma- 
